I came across a monastery in Burma a few years ago and had an opportunity to play soccer with some of the monks. Outside of Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer, I had expected monks to live a very austere and ascetic life. These were children. Video games to sports to the private meta games we invent in our own minds, and whether you’re rich, poor, young, old: we all love to play.
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I came across this clip of Back to the Future Part III– and now I can not unsee it. If you watch the clip again, Verne’s expression when we’re first introduced to him has a thick palpable nefarious layer of in-the-future-I’m-a-gonna-go-back-to-the-past-and-do-terrible-things-to-you, irrespective of his age…
On September 12, 2013, NASA officially announced that Voyager 1 had left the solar system and begun it’s journey into interstellar space. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar medium. As of August 2013, it is 125 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun. One AU is equivalent to the average distance of the Earth to the Sun, roughly 145.5 billion miles. Voyager is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth.
As a throwback to the year Voyager 1 was launched, we found NASA’s Highlights of the 1977 Aeronautics and Space Report. The report outlines some of NASA’s projects at the time, including the Space Shuttle, Voyagers, Landsat, Spacelab, HEAO-1 and energy research.
Düsseldorf-based Rheinmetall Defense recently tested a 50kW, high-energy laser at their proving ground facility in Switzerland.
All we need now is a big, walking robot to mount the guns on and we are set!
Once in a while a song a hits an emotion that feels personal. Sky Ferreira was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday April 3, 2014. The band performed I Blame Myself.
The team stateoftrey and I work on helped develop graphics and messaging for the updated NASA Open Government Plan. The Open Government Plan was created by the agency to meet a…
What do you get when you mix a referee’s first-hand footage of a hockey game? It sure looks like the future to me.
