Dinosaurs’ stories have been captured in paintings, films, comics, literature, and museums. Since the dawn of time, dinosaurs have captured the human imagination and sparked creative thought. Scaled monsters and gentle giants are two of the many ways described in the literature.
Here are the top 10 Carl Sagan quotes about science, astronomy, and humanity’s place in the Universe.
According to health professionals, the Covid-19 pandemic age might benefit from the use of the metaverse, a combination of virtual and real-world space. An expansion of the metaverse’s experience is needed so that its users can realize the need for medical education. The prefix “meta,” which refers to the virtual world, plus the suffix “verse,” which refers to the physical world, make up the term metaverse.
An interesting question: if you look up in the Earth’s sky with the naked eye, assuming you have a healthy vision, how far away can you see? Could you see beyond the Milky Way galaxy, for example?
Garrett Reisman, former NASA astronaut rates 10 space movies in the video published by the Movie Insider. How realistic they are? Space movies vs science.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL) has published a great documentary about Casini Spacecraft’s grand voyage (and its finale) around Saturn. Titled “Triumph at Saturn”, the two-part documentary chronicles the story of NASA’s Cassini mission.
On December 7, 1972, the crewmembers of Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon took a photo of Earth from space, at a distance of about 45,000 kilometers (28,000 miles). This image, with the official NASA designation AS17-148-22727, became known as “The Blue Marble”. It remains one of the most iconic photos of Earth taken from space.
Food waste has reached colossal proportions and the magnitude of the problem requires equally massive resources with the potential to supply sustainable answers. What better than the dynamic digital databases and advanced analytics we literally have access to “at our fingertips”.
By Susan Langthorp
Located in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Perućica is one of the last two saved primeval forests in Europe (the other being the Białowieża Forest). Perućica has many trees that are 300 years old, and its age is stated to be 20,000 years (it existed even before the last Ice Age which concluded about 11,550 years ago). There are trees over 50 meters high (164 feet) in the forest.
Before the invention of the telescope, no one on Earth knew that Saturn had rings until the 1600s. Galileo Galilei discovered them with his telescope in 1610, but he did not know what these were either. Thus they remained a mystery until 1655 when the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens (see notes 1) figured out that they were actually planetary rings.