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True story: one of our best friends’ mothers growing up was one of Canada’s leading quilters. She would travel around the world (though never into space) attending quilting conferences and the like. She used the family’s garage as her workshop, and had the largest Canadian flag in the world stored there in several boxes. Why [...]

We’ve long wondered how we’d handle being in space, what effects it would have on our body and psyche. We’d like to think we would never go Moon- or Solaris-crazy, but who knows. Hopefully we wouldn’t go quite as crazy as the interplanetarily insane folks featured in io9’s listicle of the Top 10 Mental Cases [...]

Remember astronaut food? You know, those weird dried-out vacuum-packed foods they sell at science museums that are supposedly like the stuff astronauts in orbit have to eat? We always suspected these were actually designed as an early tactic for weeding out children with space travel aspirations who clearly weren’t up to the challenge. As in: [...]

Though we’ve had conflicting reports, at least one source claims that today is UFO Day (others say July 8, the date of the original Roswell, New Mexico sighting, others say July 2 for no specific reason). At any rate, since everybody is so vague on the whole unidentified flying object thing (something we’ve noted before), [...]

Yes, there is something kind of sad about a satellite intended to help us monitor global warming plunging nose-first into the ocean, but there’s been worse, botched space launch-wise.
Go To List: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/launchfailures.html

After the satellite collision a couple of weeks ago there was a marked glut of articles predicting the dawn of an era of crashes in the satellite-saturated skies and raining space debris. And of course there was the raining space debris captured on camera in Austin.
But aside from that, we think this might all be [...]

As students of film and believers in its magical healing powers, we often turn to our favorite movie for advice about the present and predictions about the future. Every so often though, a movie tells us something that turns out to be completely wrong – like that thing about werewolves and silver bullets, totally a [...]

By now we’ve all see the Obamaguration satellite pictures, which brought home once again the tremendous power of the space-bird’s eye view. Of course, there are also the various creepy government surveillance possibilities of satellite imagery, but we feel those have been adequately explored in several Hollywood blockbusters. No, for us satellite images are simply [...]

Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which [...]