You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
How to Become a NASA Flight Controller with Holly Griffith
Matt, Dennis, and I recently had an opportunity to chat with Holly Griffith about how she became a flight controller and what it means to know how to launch and land a spaceship.
Microsoft Research Shows Off IllumiRoom Display Technology
During CES 2013, Microsoft Research posted this Illumiroom video to their YouTube channel.
Why Has NASA Not Gone to Mars with Humans Already?
- The tech to keep people alive BOTH ways is still being developed. Some problems are similar to ones we’ve solved when sending folks to the Moon but MANY are different.
- It’s crazy expensive to solve these problems and it takes time. You can’t throw twice as much money at some of these problems and expect them to be solved in half the time.
Worst Movie Death Scene Ever
This scene is from the 1979 Turkish film Kareteci Kiz. I’m posting it on UPT because sometimes you just have to share the wealth, enjoy!
How a Mech is made
Recently, the folks over at Penny-Arcade Report interviewed some of the head art designers at Piranha Games (Need for Speed: Shift, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) about the process used…
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.