#September2012

Astronauts fix the space station with a TOOTHBRUSH. Yeah, science! Or something.

Sometimes you just need to rock a toothbrush. Lost your sex toy? Toothbrush. Smelly teeth? Toothbrush. Need to fix a space station? Toothbrush.

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Interactive app lefts you explore MARS yourself through Curiosity.

Goddamn amazing. Living on Earth got you down? When we’re not destroying the environment (whether or not you believe in Climate Change, we’re pretty impressive dicks to the Blue Marble), we spend the time fighting one another. Get the fuck to Mars if only virtually through this app that lets you explore the Red Planet through a panorama of Curiosity pictures.

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VIDEO of CURIOSITY’S descent onto Mars. Super space bulge.

This video of Curiosity’s descent onto Mars is only stop motion, but it’s a delicious taste of the footage to come. Crank the son of a bitch up to its highest resolution, squint your eyes, and party hard.

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SATURN’S MOON IAPETUS got itself some pretty gnarly avalanches.

You think you’re surfing the gnarly waves of crystallized water stuff here on Erf, brah? Think again. Saturn’s moon Iapetus is where all the legitimate skier people are going. We’re talking avalanches like a mofuckah.’

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NASA hires SCENT CHEMIST to recreate the smell of space for us leadfooted bastards.

I didn’t know that space had a smell. Nor did I know there were such things as scent chemists. Now these two newly divulged existences are coming together. Praise be.

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PLUTO Has A FIFTH MOON, Still No Goddamn Respect.

Pluto. It can’t catch a  break. Despite having like, a zillion moons (four) with like a million more found (a fifth), it still isn’t a pluto. What the hell is up with that.

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Non-Profit Organization Wants To Launch Deep Space Telescope To Search For Dangerous Asteroids. Bruce Willis Nods.

Deep space asteroids are out there, folks. They’re lurking. Taking their time. Waiting for us to get complacent. Right when we think we’ve got the entire cosmos to ourselves, they’re going to launch their asses through gravity and physics right at our precious Blue Marble. One non-profit wants to help prevent this.

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Near-Earth Asteroid That Passed Us By Is TWICE AS BIG As Previously Thought

Here’s some cold comfort. Some big son of a bitch asteroid recently passed us by, giving us the finger and giggling at our mortality. While it’s all well and good that it didn’t rock us, it also turns out that the death-dealing rock was twice as large as previously thought.

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Former NASA Scientist: FTL May Be Achieved Between Years 2300 and 3000. There Goes My Bucket List.

FTL travel is the holy grail of science-fiction dorks. It is what shall let us venture into the depths of space, colonizing planets and ruining shit outside of our own solar system. Unfortunately, we aren’t anywhere near achieving the son of a bitch, if it’s even possible.

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NASA: VOYAGER 1 Has Almost Left Our Solar System. Hell Yeah.

Voyager 1 has been working its way out of our solar system for a long, long, long goddamn time. If calculations by astronomical wizards are correct, it is pretty much there.

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