This is for all of the random, off the top of your head kind of blog post.
Wrapping up this week's story, the SpaceX Dragon capsule finally docked with the International Space Station earlier today, making it the first privately-owned craft to dock at the station. Aboard were a number of supplies, experiments and the cremated remains of several people, including those of actor James Doohan, best known as “Scotty” from Star Trek. The figurative road to...
In case you missed the news, SpaceX’s launch attempt for a rendezvous with the International Space Station had to be scrapped just before lift off on Saturday. According to a press release from the company, the launch “was aborted when...
Early tomorrow morning (4:55 EDT), SpaceX—the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft—is going to attempt another first: being the first private company to dock a spacecraft to the International Space Station. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will...
Today is the 57th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s death. We’ve all heard of him. We all know the equation for his Special Theory of Relativity (E=mc2), though very few people can actually explain what the heck it means in a...
Relatively speaking, solid state drives like the OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro, Aura Pro, Legacy, and Electra series are fairly new players to the computer world only really coming into prominence within the last few years, as prices became more affordable....
My how time flies; it’s already been two years since the iPad was originally released, and what a ride it has been. I remember the storm of rumors around it beforehand, and when it was first announced, it was panned by critics as...
