A History of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Another great space video from SpaceRip

“NASA’s tribute to the Hubble Space Telescope on its 20th anniversary in space. This beautiful video surveys the incredible accomplishments of this revolutionary instrument: everybody’s favorite telescope.”

This is a great video about the Hubble Space Telescope from it’s conception, to launch, and the many repair and upgrade missions that make it what it is today. The Hubble will be remembered in history because it changed the way we look at the universe and has produced more knowledge in it’s 20+ years than all of the 400 years back to Galileo combined.

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How Large is the Universe?

Here is another and the latest featured space video from my friends at SpaceRip.

This one called “How large is the Universe?” is by Thomas Lucas Productions dated 2012 and written by the same. It is narrated by Dick Rodstein with contributions from an all star cast of contributors including but, not limited to NASA, JPL, European Space Agency, and CERN just to name a few. The imagery and super computer generated models are stunning to say the least and go a long way in helping the author explain a very complex topic in a way the layman can understand and enjoy. This is like a total must see for any aspiring science geek, and to all you science teachers out there this has some really great material that could really enhance your science lesson plans.

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A Interstellar Voyage, what might be involved?

I found this and many other space and science videos on one of my favorite YouTube channels, SpaceRip.

This video uses Pandora, the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar, as an example to illustrate a scenario where in a possible future we would need to migrate from our planet for various reasons.  Pandora’s location is based on a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun and the most likely destination for our first journey beyond the solar system.

Everything from anti matter as the future fuel of choice to faster than light speed is discussed in this video. Each time I watch it I gain new knowledge and insight, in short it makes you think. I will be posting many more videos of this genre from various “geek” sights I frequent while “jacked into the matrix”, flowing like an excited electron through it’s fabulous wealth of knowledge.

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