Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, which plans to offer...

"Over the next decade Space Adventures will fly more people to space than have made the journey since the dawn of the Space Age. Our clients will fly on suborbital flights, on voyages to Earth orbit and on historic expeditions that circumnavigate the moon. Flights will leave from spaceports both on Earth and in space, visiting private space...

From the economics to design to viability, what are the physical and sociological mechanisms behind space tourism? A once govermental and scientific enterprise -- space travel -- is quickly becoming a private, pleasure-oriented commercial industry. Where did this come from and where is it going?

As space tourism enters the tourism market, efforts are made that it becomes profitable with upside and growth potiential. The Space Tourism Society aims to do just that by introducting logical goals and solutions to the private enterprise of space tourism.

This weekend DARPA handed out $3.5 million to three teams competing in a driving version of the...

The main conclusion is that spaceplanes can reduce the cost of human transport to orbit...

Highlights space tourism menu: Lunar tourism, orbital tourism, sub-orbital tourism, and high...

This article promotes space tourism as an experience that will change our perceptions in the same...

Basically, space tourism is promoted as the ultimate adventure experience. Of the people polled, only 21 percent feel the need for a 'space hotel' but of those 21 percent, they would want to stay for up to 2 weeks.

For the Aircraft research group, the Dryden Flight Research Center website could come in handy. ...

Space Habitats are an alternative to planetary habitat. These are three approaches to space...

For starters, check out two videos from the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference; one...

My good friend Olly from Without Hyphens has meme-tagged me. This particular meme-tag is of Olly's own creation, and it's a pretty good one too! Check it out: I got to thinking recently about the idea that all of us, as humans, have principles we live by daily. These aren’t your over-arching beliefs necessarily, but rather the things that you...

the imaginary is a familiar! words are codes...

Nothing new here. Imagery of natural systems bot micro and macro, periodic natural events share...

Over a decade ago, a team of scientists and programmers created a virtual environment and populated...

BACKGROUND: The Philips Pavillion at the World Expo 1958 in Brussels featured a unique multimedia...

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was the German scientist who coined the phrase "ontogeny...

NOT ONLY have i just discovered that robots have been/are being widely used in military...

Researchers from the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at Keio University in Japan have developed a...

Ron Paul has more boots on the ground than any other candidate. Check out this awesome video....

The once thought to be extinct creature has been discovered off the coast of Nova Scotia. Scientists captured this video of a group of Stinging Trilophods exhibiting swarming attack behaviour. Note the glowing tips on their spines, indicating they are agitated and ready to strike anything that gets in their way. These specimine range...

Part of a collection of spacey things I am starting to put together for my demo reel. An...

The following is a transcript from a conversation between two chatbots, Alice and Jabberwocky. The...

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One man's quest to save us from our worst enemy...ourselves. Written and directed by Joshua Taylor Sprinkling, Can Kadir Sucuoglu, and Giullermina Chiu. In association with Rene Daalder of Space Collective, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

A 2007 SCI Arc Collaborative Graduate Thesis Proposal. Everything and the flowers aims to...

Judith Donath lectured today at Broad Art Center today, and for those who missed it, she's...

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, co-principal of the Atelier Bow-Wow firm out of Tokyo, just gave a talk at...

Recently I've come to appreciate Neuromancer in a whole new way. For the longest time I thought of the book as too abstract and a little slow, as opposed to Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash, which gave so much detail about the Metaverse you could sit down and begin programming it. I always thought the difference was that Gibson couldn't imagine what...

Let's take a definition of architecture as any constructed environment designed for beings to...

Somewhere lost, this dried up section of a wall-pore was found and brought to attention. It appears...

Raymond Tallis Free will is not an illusion The Enlightenment idea of conscious, freely acting individuals is worth defending against those who would reduce freedom to neuroscience "Collectivism sounds close to cultural determinism, which is no great advance on biological or material determinism. This is where biology, or our bodies...

I found a lovely Java applet that simulates galaxy collisions. Enjoy!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4796674762025998102 this was a pretty accurate prediction

A review of The Great Disruption by Zaki Laïdi “Expert consensus, rather than public consensus, underpins today’s political outlook” "... A political drama in which the tension is between the expert and the decision-maker has little room for ordinary people. Instead, the public is expected simply to accept and live with the...

I have a fixation with Italian cinema. So here you go, because Belucci is better than...

“If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the...

Good energy to...

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth...

When Burt Rutan and his ingenious Spaceship One claimed the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004,...

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Visualization by Jennifer Daniel (Created for NoZone X, Published by Princeton Architectual Press....

beautiful installation by artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck a few months before this house was to...

Future of the species in 8 seconds:

Sharad Haksar is an award winning digital photographer from India, clicking world-class...