Starship Asterisk*

Weeeeeee.... I am captain Kirk!
"Enter standard orbit Mr Sulu. Scotty, 3 men to beam down!"

That's great, but can we have in in normal color please?

You can tell right away that it's a southern hemisphere shot. The Moon is upside down! With Tycho crater on top and rising in the opposite direction. I wonder how the people downunder don't get seasick from all that hanging.

Well the MMU was way cooler than any robotic arm would ever be. And all these tethers attaching the astronauts to the shuttle/station and all the instruments to the astronaut are just plain ugly. Making the EVA guys look like pregnant shrimps with all these "tentacles" coming out from thei...

It's a shame that NASA abandoned the MMU after proving the concept viable.

1km huh?! Even the scale matches. This is a proper poplar tree grove. So there is life on Mars! Mars conspiracy busted.

. http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/Gravitas/mov480/4_Nightfall.mov Great movie! Too bad that it isn't in slightly better quality so that single stars doesn't show like square pixels, but nevertheless this is an awesome simmulation of the star movement inside a globular cluster. And yes the quo...

Does the density of the cluster make it impossible for Kepler to detect any planets orbiting the core stars? What would they look like, showered with radiation? This reminds me of the great story by Isaac Asimov - Nightfall. A Planet with 7 suns inside a globular cluster. When night falls, there we...