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Bigelow’s bouncing baby space blimp

Robert Bigelow has a lot of money. In fact, he’s a billionaire (among other things, he owns the Budget Suites of America hotel chain). Not surprisingly, he’s a big proponent of capitalism. And he also firmly believes that since capitalism works so well on Earth, it should work just as well in outer space How …

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Photo of the Day (That Wasn’t Actually Taken Today But Could Have Been): View From My Soon-To-Be New Office

More photos here.

A force field to protect Mars astronauts from radiation?

Not quite, but this plasma bubble would be the next best thing.

Sorry for the lack of photos!

We’ve been working on moving (we still aren’t there, but we’re getting closer) into my mother-in-law’s house (she’ll move into our condo) and so my schedule has been disjointed. Hence the lack of photos of the day for the past week. I’ll try to resume normal photoblogging this week. For the two of you who …

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Suspended animation?

Well, it won’t get shiploads of sleeping colonists to the stars, but it may save lives–if it works in humans like it works in pigs.

Amazing maize maze honors Star Trek

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, Tom Pearcy cut this maze in a cornfield on his farm near York in northern England.

An end to the misery of allergies?

That’s what London scientists are forecasting. Hey, maybe we can get a cat after all!

A gallery of toy ray guns

Breathes there a boy with soul so deadWho never on his blog has said,“You know what I think’s way way way fun?“Blasting aliens with a ray gun!”

Ride into space with Discovery…

…via video footage shot from the external boosters. Look in the video gallery at NASA’s Space Shuttle Multimedia page.

Pierre Elliot Trudeau…

…is the subject of a new opera. Well, why not?

Space hotel prototype in orbit

An privately built test module that could point the way toward inflatable orbital structures (such as space hotels for tourists) is now in orbit.

2006 Bulwer-Lytton awards for bad writing announced!

This year’s “winner” of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is Jim Guigli of Carmichael, CA. His winning entry: Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you’ve had your last burrito for …

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