...popular culture is once again there to help us think. Blade Runner is an example of such effort in the form of a thriller. Steven Spielberg’s AI Artificial Intelligence is another, in a gentler and more cerebral genre. And many would agree that Isaac...
... conundrum and might help astronomers see experimental data with fresh eyes. The celebrated NASA historian Steven J. Dick advocated early on that anthropology could inform space endeavours. Despite the early exclusion of social science...
... 1974 Arecibo Message, the most powerful radio broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space. The 1982 Steven Spielberg movie E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial features a lovable alien. The now legendary Drake Equation asked the...
... than solid or liquid systems. Figure 2. Paraffin wax liquid entrainment mechanism during combustion [A. Karabeyoglu, B. Cantwell, J. Stevens, ‘Evaluation of homologous series of normalalkanes as hybrid rocket fuels’, 41st AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint...
... 2017, SpaceNews.com reported. “Our price is relative to the level of risk the customer is willing to undertake,” said Steven Isakowitz, president of Virgin Galactic. “In the case of NASA, they wanted to fly on one of our early launches.” All...
... brown dwarf was effectively hidden by the dust until we looked with the right instrument", said co-author Dr Steven Parsons (University of Valparaíso and University of Sheffield). "But when we observed SDSS 1557 in detail we recognised the brown...