Artist Josh Ln created this awesome series of anatomical illustrations revealing the unexpected insides of some well known spacecraft. Prints are available via Society6.
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Wanna build a starship Enterprise for real? Sign this petition to the White House to have NASA do a feasibility study.
We have within our technological reach the ability to build the 1st generation of the USS Enterprise. It ends up that this ship’s inspiring form is quite functional. This will be Earth’s first gigawatt-class interplanetary spaceship with artificial gravity. The ship can serve as a spaceship, space station, and space port all in one. In total, one thousand crew members & visitors can be on board at once. Few things could collectively inspire people on Earth more than seeing the Enterprise being built in space. And the ship could go on amazing missions, like taking the first humans to Mars while taking along a large load of base-building equipment for constructing the first permanent base there.
For more information see BuildTheEnterprise.org.
how to fight by Captain Kirk (ft. his best pupil)
#and the ever popular ‘HALF-ASSED KARATE CHOP TO THE SHOULDER’ TECHNIQUES
MY FAVORITE KIRK MOVE
What’s awesome… none of these are in slow motion. That’s just how slow Kirk moves in combat. His style is called “Slow-Fu”.
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NASA is actually working on a faster than light warp drive, but it might blow up any planet it travels to
Faster than light (FTL) travel has always been a hallmark of science fiction, but buzz kill scientists have always said the concept was impossible because it violates the cardinal rule of Einstein’s relativity, namely that the very building blocks of the universe mean that nothing can go faster than light.
Now NASA may have found a loophole, enabling them to travel to distant stars that are several light years away, all without violating relativity. The only problem? It might blow up whatever is waiting at its destination.
