FALCON HEAVY TEST LAUNCH
Take-off is cool, twin boosters
landing at the end is even cooler.
youtu.be/sB_nEtZxPogAPOLLO 11 SATURN V
Essential cut with all the good bits.
A true 20th century legend!
youtu.be/4cOhZy7dhToEPIC LOUD SPACE SHUTTLE HD
Launch of Discovery. Crank the
bass and rattle the windows!
youtu.be/OnoNITE-CLc3 2 1All those brave totally unqualified oil rig
workers who saved the Earth by blowing
up asteroids with nuclear weapons in
films from the late 1990s, maybe have
unnecessarily risked their lives.
Instead, it may be possible to divert
an asteroid by simply painting part of it
a different colour. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx
probe (pictured) will visit possibly-Earth-
impacting asteroid Bennu to investigate. By
painting one side of the asteroid, say, white,
it will change the rock’s thermals properties
as the sun heats that side slightly more. This
can lead to a change in its “orbital dynamics”
and turn a direct-hit into a near-miss.
Not that there’s any rush: Bennu, which is
about the size of a large skyscraper, has a 1 in
2700 chance of hitting Earth... in 2135.
Paint an
Asteroid
to Save
the Earth
$10,
Claimed total cost of the world’s irst mass-
produceed, 3D-printed electric car. Italian
car maker XEV and Chinese 3D printing
material maker Polymaker say the LSEV cuts
typical car production costs by 70%, and part
counts from over 2000 to just 57. LSEV should
hit the road in late 2019.
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