Collaborate Disseminate
Sometimes it’s hard to read the tea leaves of what’s going on with high-profile space missions. Weighted down as they are with the need to be careful with taxpayer money …read more Continue reading Flipped Bit Could Mark the End of Voyager 1‘s Interstellar Mission
Good news this week from Mars, where Ingenuity finally managed to check in with its controllers after a long silence. The plucky helicopter went silent just after nailing the landing …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 9, 2023
By Owais Sultan
Stellar Cyber, the company that recently made headlines as one of the “10 Hot XDR Security Companies You…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Stellar Cyber Launches InterSTELLAR Partner Program for Open … Continue reading Stellar Cyber Launches InterSTELLAR Partner Program for Open XDR Solutions
“If we can’t build something capable of delivering astronomical levels of energy, perhaps we could instead steal the energy from an astronomical object.” Continue reading The ‘Halo Drive’ Would Shoot Lasers at Black Holes to Explore the Milky Way
The popular press was recently abuzz with sad news from the planet Mars: Opportunity, the little rover that could, could do no more. It took an astonishing 15 years for it to give up the ghost, and it took a planet-wide dust storm that blotted out the sun and …read more
Continue reading Engineering for the Long Haul, the NASA Way
The probe crossed the heliopause, the boundary between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium, on November 5. Continue reading Voyager 2 Joins Its Twin in Interstellar Space
As you’re no doubt aware, humans are a rather noisy species. Not just audibly, like in the case of somebody talking loudly when you’re in a movie theater, but also electromagnetically. All of our wireless transmissions since Marconi made his first spark gap broadcast in 1895 have radiated out into space, and anyone who’s got a sensitive enough ear pointed into our little corner of the Milky Way should have no trouble hearing us. Even if these extraterrestrial eavesdroppers wouldn’t be able to understand the content of our transmissions, the sheer volume of them would be enough to indicate that …read more
Continue reading Flagging Down Aliens with World’s Biggest Laser Pointer
The unique properties of holograms could be used to stabilize spacecraft and carry huge amounts of data to the universe. Continue reading Scientists Want to Send Holographic Messages to Nearby Stars on Light Sails
We’ve all seen infinity mirrors. Even Mr. Spock had one in the Star Trek movies. Usually, these aren’t very large and hang on the wall. [QuackMasterDan] decided (after watching another movie, Interstellar) to try making a desk using the same idea. We aren’t sure it will make you more productive, but if you want to up your office cool factor, consider building his tesseract infinity desk. In fact, we imagine it would be pretty distracting. Sure to be a conversation starter, though.
Unlike a regular two-plate infinity mirror, [Dan’s] desk has six plates. He used metal for the structural parts …read more
