We’ve all felt tired to the point of being loopy, but most of the time we’re not in the cockpit of a 767, confusing a planet for another plane and sending ours into a nosedive.
Ever wondered what natural sounds you would hear on another planet? Although some spacecraft have carried microphones, sound has never been reliably recorded in an alien atmosphere. But now, thanks to simulations created by Tim Leighton from the University of Southampton, UK, and his team, you can hear what Mars and Venus would sound like.
Ohhh baby, space is about to get real sexy tonight. Starting around 9pm EST (noon AEDT) the moon and Venus will be just three degrees apart in the western sky, with Jupiter joining only 10 degrees below. You can even watch it on a webcam. Check out the celestial bodies on them!
Thirty five years ago yesterday, we could only imagine the view from the surface of another world. But Russia’s Venera 9 probe changed all that, beaming back the first ever photo of another planet – 40 million kilometres away.
Fujitsu opened this year’s Fujitsu Forum conference by kicking Intel squarely in the groin, debuting a new processor that’s 2.5 times faster than anything the CPU giant has on offer, and one third as power-hungry.
