In Real Life

Sometimes Real Life Looks Just Like Skyrim

Here’s a surreal, beautiful photograph of an auroral storm over Arctic Henge in northern Iceland, featured today by NASA.


March 9, 2012
PC

Angry Birds Space Launch Date Announced In Space

The newest entry into the Angry Birds franchise really, really means it about being in space. The launch announcement for Angry Birds Space came today from the International Space Station, in orbit above Earth. In the video above, NASA astronaut Don Petit explains some of the physics of how angry birds can launch an assault on pigs in space.


October 1, 2011
In Real Life

Oh Well, Looks Like Rage Probably Ain’t Happening

Oh don’t worry, id’s latest and greatest is still scheduled to come out next week; it’s premise just got a little bit weaker, as NASA reveals there are fewer apocalypse-causing asteroids rocketing through space than we once thought.


September 28, 2011
In Real Life

Gamers Discover Two New Planets By Playing A Browser Game

It’s been a banner week for gamers and “doing things that count in the real world.” First, they solve a decades-old scientific AIDS stumper using Foldit, and now, they’ve discovered two new possibly Earth-like planets.


August 5, 2011
News

New NASA Photo Suggests Signs Of Flowing Water On Mars

Revise Red Faction. Update Doom. Go back to the drawing board with that Total Recall remake (actually, please just stop making that). NASA announced today that they may have possible evidence of flowing water on Mars.


July 21, 2011
News

The Shuttle Has Landed…

Many of us watched, earlier this month, as the space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into space earlier this month, marking the last time a space shuttle will ever leave the Earth. Early this morning Atlantis came home.


July 10, 2011
Uncategorized

Mario Bids Bon Voyage To The Space Shuttle

So you’re attending the final launch in the U.S. space shuttle program’s 30-year history. How would you document the moment? One guy whipped out his 3DS and AR cards and put Mario among those in attendance.


July 9, 2011
In Real Life

Five Triumphant Moments In Space Shuttle Gaming

Now that the final mission of NASA’s space shuttle program is underway, we thought we’d take a look at some of the games influenced by the primitive spacecraft over the years.


May 18, 2011
News

These Are The First Lego Sets Ever Launched Into Space

Yesterday, the space shuttle Endeavour launched for the last time, carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the ExPRESS Logistics to the ISS. But more importantly, it carried Lego to space for the first time in history. These are the sets.


April 1, 2011
News

Deep Space Mystery Solved Using ’70s Computer Graphics Technique

Extra-solar probes Pioneer 10 and 11 have been confusing astrophysicists for the last decade: they’re slowing down a lot more than we’d expected as they’re leaving the solar system. The slowing has become know as the “Pioneer Anomaly.” (But you probably know it by the popular formula, “Ol’ (8.74±1.33)×10^−10 ms^−2″.)