This was taken in the old Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Mission Control Center (MCC) at Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas.
Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
How to Measure the Universe
You ever wonder how we know the distance to stars and galaxies millions of light years away? The Royal Observatory Greenwich made this animated video that explains the principles and…
Elysium – A film by Neill Blomkamp
Ever since the Halo live action shorts that Neill did in 2007 he’s been on the radar. Then two years later he exploded onto the mainstream circuit with District 9…
Scale of the Universe
I saw this once before. Blew my mind then. They’ve since updated it. I’m still in awe.
Posted by Matt Scott
Why Katharine Haché is Playing Games With Stories
Katharine Haché is a graduate student at East Tennessee State University that has developed interactive fiction using TWINE. We started our discussion talking about classic arcade games Burger Time and Mario Bros. Not unlike many of us who grew up in the 80’s, Katherine played those games with her parents. She pointed out how those early experiences helped generate fond family memories and affected her current interests in storytelling. Other points that were made in the interview pertained to the nature of video games, the publishing industry around them, and the tropes and clichés their stories often rely on.
Lexical Differences Among European Languages Visualized in a Graph
Nearly 75% of the words in the English language come from French, Latin, and the Romance Languages. Yet, English is considered a Germanic language.
Why?
Video Game High School
Imagine being graded on how well you can dish out headshots, capture the flag, or getting homework on forcing your APM up. There’s a silent wish of every gamer growing up that they could go to school to play video games, a new webseries named Video Game High School written by Matthew Arnold, Will Campos and Brian Firenzi fulfills that wish.
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