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Damn those are pretty…

February 19, 2010
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Earlier this week NASA release the first series of images from the WISE (Wide-field Infrared Sur­vey Explorer) project…and they are hot! Since WISE began its scan of the entire sky in infrared light on Jan. 14, the space tele­scope has beamed back more than a quarter of a mil­lion raw, infrared images. Four new, pro­cessed pictures […]

Tagged as: desktop, Images, NASA, Photography, pictures, space, WISE

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& free Space Race icons">Cool & free Space Race icons

September 29, 2009
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I found these nifty free icons while surf­ing this morn­ing, and am think­ing they’re the per­fect com­ple­ment to some of my space themed desktop images I use. If you’re inter­ested, here a quick list of my desktop image posts: Atlantis on the sun — desktop Earth­rise — desktop And check out these icons at The Icon Factory. […]

Tagged as: Apollo, Design, desktop, icon, icon set, Image, mercury, space

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Atlantis on the Sun — Desktop Image

July 30, 2009
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I felt the need for a new desktop image for my com­puters, now that the Apollo 11 excite­ment has died down, and I was tir­ing of my Apollo 8 Earth­rise image. I found this neat shot of Atlantis trans­it­ing the Sun, by Thi­erry Legault. The fol­low­ing sizes at the NASA site: Full Size 1024×768 800×600 And […]

Tagged as: Atlantis, cool, desktop, Image, Lifestyle Technology, NASA, Nature, photo, Photograph, Shuttle, space, Space Shuttle, spaceflight, Sun, wallpaper

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Godspeed Apollo 11

July 16, 2009
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It was 40 years ago today, and the Amer­ican space pro­gram put it all on the line send­ing three young avi­at­ors to land on the moon. Wow. I don’t think we’d even con­sider that a risk worth tak­ing now. Some­where along the line we lost our abil­ity to take risks.…and return to the Moon. I’m lucky to have […]

Tagged as: cool, Entertainment, History, Moon, NASA, Social Media, space, twitter

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Freelancer Trial Version

October 10, 2005

a snap­shot review by Brad Grier FreeL­an­cer hails from a very rich lin­eage of games. Élite, the old Atari/Apple/Amiga clas­sic, is prob­ably the closest and earli­est example of a game of this type — being a fairly rich space-combat-trading-ship-building-RPG style of game. Élite was one of the first that offered a 3d exper­i­ence, albeit wire frame […]

Tagged as: Entertainment, game, Lifestyle Technology, Microsoft, online, PC, Reviews, space, Windows

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