Planetary Defense

It is hard to believe that there is not an agency doing whatever it can to protect the planet from impacts. Because as geologists say, a cataclysmic event isn't a question of "if" but a question of "when".

Go NASA!

See CSMonitor: NASA should protect Earth from space rocks, panel finds

I Want To Believe

That this picture is of alien technology (but it isn't).



See The Sun: Space UFO Baffles Boffins

Mars News Indicates It Was Once More Earth-Like

NS: Fresh claim for fossil life in Mars rock

Discover: New Map Suggests Huge Ocean Once Dominated Mars’ Northern Hemisphere

A Burning Question

Via the CSMonitor: Who is responsible for averting an asteroid strike?

Maybe 2012 Really Will Be The End?

Like the Mayans prophesied...

Wired: The 2012 Apocalypse — And How to Stop It

Worse yet, the next period of intense solar activity is expected in 2012, and coincides with the presence of an unusually large hole in Earth’s geomagnetic shield.

Beating Asteroids

Wired: How to Defend Earth Against an Asteroid Strike

(Continuation of a theme)

Asteroids Scare Me

I have an unusual phobia about getting hit in the head by an asteroid. Glad to see the threat is getting more attention

See: World 'must tackle space threat'

Space Beer

ISS Space Barley Beer

A colloborative effort between the Russian Academy of Science, Okayama University and Sopporo Breweries in Japan has developed a beer that uses 100-percent barley grown on the International Space Station.