Archive for April, 2008

The Evil Villain As A Good Role Model

Definition of success: A man who falls down 9 times and stands up 10 times. - Old Chinese Proverb.
While children’s TV shows and movies, especially those featuring superheros and supervillains, are primarily aimed at entertainment, they do have some educational qualities to redeem them.
For instance take the good role model that the evil villain gives [...]

Full Earth Rise and Set from KAGUYA(SELENE)

Full Earth Rise and Set shot by the KAGUYA(SELENE) Moon Probe Via a YouTube Video .

Can I Legally Own Land on the Moon?

Yes, you can own land on the Moon.
The main obstacle to owning land on the Moon, or indeed any other celestial body, used to be that there was no legal system of property law, or indeed any law, on the Moon and thus no rights of ownership could be created. No right of ownership can [...]

Bioplastics and Desktop Manufacturing

The use of Bioplastic and Desktop Manufacturing will allow our Moon base to become self sufficient in spare parts at a relatively early stage.
Bioplastics are plastics made from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable starch or microbes, rather than petroleum as traditional plastics are made from. Obviously we don’t expect to find petroleum on the [...]

NASA SF Movie

Here is a NASA animation about the constellation program that I just found on YouTube.
This is stirring stuff, and a great use of American tax money . And while I agree whole heartedly with the sentiment, I have my doubts that NASA will fly anything like what is depicted in this video to [...]