Tag Archive 'Space'
Spacehack.org - Participate in Space Exploration
Posted in Computer, Futuretech, Government, Innovation, Science, Space on Dec 1st, 2008
Spacehack is a directory of ways to participate in space exploration, interact + connect with the space community and encourage citizen science. There are currently many projects, competitions, and educational undertakings involving aeronautics, engineering, imaging, astronomy, spacecrafts (e.g. robots), extraterrestrial life, visualization (3D modeling), mars, and galaxies.
One competition, called Elevator 2010, [...]
A sugar molecule linked to the origin of life was discovered in a potentially habitable region of our galaxy.
The molecule, called glycolaldehyde, was spotted in a large star-forming area of space around 26,000 light-years from Earth in the less-chaotic outer regions of the Milky Way. This suggests the sugar could be common across the universe, [...]