How's Your Robot? » space exploration http://howsyourrobot.com Tue, 21 May 2013 18:34:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 the Halfassed Podcast with Gary and John yes the Halfassed Podcast with Gary and John hellorobot@howsyourrobot.com hellorobot@howsyourrobot.com (the Halfassed Podcast with Gary and John) Halfassed Entertainment podcast,funny podcast,entertainment,crazy podcast,best podcast How's Your Robot? » space exploration http://howsyourrobot.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/halfassed-live.png http://howsyourrobot.com United States weekly ‘Europa Report’ Official Trailer http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/05/20/europa-report-official-trailer/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/05/20/europa-report-official-trailer/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:51:02 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=8340 A unique blend of documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller, the August 2 release follows a contemporary mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to investigate the possible existence of alien life within our solar system. When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean could exist underneath Europa’s icy surface and may contain single-celled life, Europa [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/05/20/europa-report-official-trailer/feed/ 0 The Brightest Explosion Ever Recorded! http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/05/13/the-brightest-explosion-ever-recorded/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/05/13/the-brightest-explosion-ever-recorded/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 19:01:52 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=8258 NASA Scientists Observe The Brightest Explosion Ever Where can an explosion be 35 billion times brighter than visible light? In space of course. NASA scientist recently observed an explosion about 3.6 billion light-years away. It was observed by Fermi’s Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. It was also seen by just about any observation unit on the ground that was pointed anywhere [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/05/13/the-brightest-explosion-ever-recorded/feed/ 0 TED-Ed | Dark Matter: A Video Lesson http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/05/07/ted-ed-dark-matter-a-video-lesson/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/05/07/ted-ed-dark-matter-a-video-lesson/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 17:42:41 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=8194 The Greeks had a simple and elegant formula for the universe: just earth, fire, wind, and water. Turns out there’s more to it than that — a lot more. Visible matter (and that goes beyond the four Greek elements) comprises only 4% of the universe. CERN scientist James Gillies tells us what accounts for the remaining 96% [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/05/07/ted-ed-dark-matter-a-video-lesson/feed/ 0 NASA Video – 3 Years of the Sun in 3 Minutes http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/29/nasa-video-3-years-of-the-sun-in-3-minutes/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/29/nasa-video-3-years-of-the-sun-in-3-minutes/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:02:17 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=8122 NASA squeezes three years of solar activity into a three minute time-lapse video Three years ago the Solar Dynamics Observatory(SDO) beamed back to earth its first images of the sun. The SDO is possibly the most important part of a NASA initiative called Living With a Star (LWS). NASA’s initiative to develop the understanding needed to address those [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/29/nasa-video-3-years-of-the-sun-in-3-minutes/feed/ 0 Saturn’s Rings Seen from a Helicopter (Video) http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/28/saturns-rings-seen-from-a-helicopter-video/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/28/saturns-rings-seen-from-a-helicopter-video/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:20:27 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=8104 Yep, you read that right. Should we be concerned? Is saturn going to crash into earth any day now? Has earth been thrown out of its orbit and does that explain where we had such a looong winter? Nope but it’s fun to pretend. What is really going on is it is just simply a [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/28/saturns-rings-seen-from-a-helicopter-video/feed/ 0 NASA lets us watch the Voyager spacecraft as it leaves our solar system http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/26/nasa-lets-us-watch-the-voyager-spacecraft-as-it-leaves-our-solar-system/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/26/nasa-lets-us-watch-the-voyager-spacecraft-as-it-leaves-our-solar-system/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:29:20 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=8094 So space exploration is awesome. What’s even more with the awesomeness is how interactive we can be with NASA missions. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are deep-space probes launched in 1977 by NASA to study the outer planets and the frontiers of the Solar System and now NASA is giving us a way to track their progress as they get [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/26/nasa-lets-us-watch-the-voyager-spacecraft-as-it-leaves-our-solar-system/feed/ 0 Stephen Hawking Says We Need to Get Off this Planet in the next 1000yrs http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/15/stephen-hawking-says-we-need-to-get-off-this-planet-in-the-next-1000yrs/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/15/stephen-hawking-says-we-need-to-get-off-this-planet-in-the-next-1000yrs/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:45:49 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=8020 That’s if we don’t get the hell of this rock we will all be dead. By the way…how amazing is that picture up there?! Speaking at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center he recommends we drastically increase our interest in space exploration and “get the hell of dis mutha fucka” – Stephen Hawking Ok maybe he did’t say it just like that but [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/04/15/stephen-hawking-says-we-need-to-get-off-this-planet-in-the-next-1000yrs/feed/ 0 EU-Backed ‘Electric Sail’ Could Get You To Pluto in 5 Years http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/03/29/eu-backed-electric-sail-could-get-you-to-pluto-in-5-years/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/03/29/eu-backed-electric-sail-could-get-you-to-pluto-in-5-years/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:34:19 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=7932 We got the lower orbit travel down now. We eve have been to the moon a few time and will be back soon. We have a few robots on Mars and so the logical next step is getting me on another planet. Well me or a highly trained professional. I don;t think my wife would let me [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/03/29/eu-backed-electric-sail-could-get-you-to-pluto-in-5-years/feed/ 0 The Best Pictures of Every Planet http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/03/27/the-best-pictures-of-every-planet/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/03/27/the-best-pictures-of-every-planet/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:33:49 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=7926 Today we offer up something amazing we find at Popsci.com. They have assembled the best photos of all planets in our solar system taken through out the best years of space exploration. They call it Space Marbles We have a couple here. Head over to Popsci.com for some more awesome images: Mercury NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics [...]

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]]> http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/03/27/the-best-pictures-of-every-planet/feed/ 0 Voyager 1 Leaving Our Solar System (Video) http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/03/21/voyager-1-leaving-our-solar-system-video/ http://howsyourrobot.com/2013/03/21/voyager-1-leaving-our-solar-system-video/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:02:04 +0000 Johnny2x http://howsyourrobot.com/?p=7888 Launched in 1977 Voyager 1 traveled through our solar system capturing some of the best data and images ever recorded in space exploration and is soon leaving the outer most boundaries of our solar system. It is now nearly 11.5 billion miles from the Sun, speeding away at 38,000 miles per hour. Last year  Voyager 1’s instruments recorded a doubling [...]

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