Compare and contrast, if you will, this press release from the University of Colorado: “Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction” …and the Ig Nobel Prize-winning patent by George and Charlotte Blonsky: “Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force”
Tag: astronaut
The campaign to honor the first cat in outer space
A cat named Félicette gets ever-widening recognition as being the first cat intentionally (and probably otherwise, too) launched into outer space. Félicette has many admirers, and has admired research into the history of the thing, and inspired artists, too. (Thanks to Brent Freeze for bringing this to our attention.) NOTE: The saga of Félicette should […]
Best space music videos: Hadfield/Bowie & Coleman/Anderson/Bach
These are our picks for best space music videos of the past few years. In our view, they qualify as being improbable in all the best senses of that word. Both videos show performances done by musician-astronauts in spacecraft orbiting the earth. Chris Hadfield performs David Bowie‘s “Space Oddity”: Cady Coleman and Ian Anderson (of […]
Vomit video, new from NASA
Inspired by Mary Roach’s new book “Packing for Mars,” Alan Boyle, on Cosmic Log, essays some thoughts about a NASA-produced video: about half of all astronauts get the final frontier’s version of motion sickness in zero gravity. So it’s virtually guaranteed that some barf bags will be going into the trash. NASA researchers want to […]