Neil DeGrasse Tyson Uses A Coffee Cup To Explain NASA’s Plan To Deal With Asteroids
NASA has a cool plan to battle Earth destroying asteroids in a decidedly non-Armageddon way.
NASA has a cool plan to battle Earth destroying asteroids in a decidedly non-Armageddon way.
This story is a lot of what it is.
Courtesy of Neil deGrasse Tyson. We have to get off this rock, or we will die.
What does it take to stop an asteroid from colliding with the earth? Neil deGrasse Tyson fills us in.
It’s just like the 1979 Asteroids, except it runs in your browser and the “asteroids” are other people.
Thanks to a bit of javascript code (which I cleared with our dev team to make sure it won’t destroy your computer) you can turn any site into a game of HTML asteroids. So long, productivity. Read More ›
Time-lapse video of asteroid discoveries in our solar system from 1980-2010. Best viewed in 1080p. (Via Reddit.) Watch Video ›
The incredibly low-tech arcade game from 1979, Asteroids (which had no discernable story or anything), is the next thing from our childhoods to be turned into a blockbuster movie. Universal Studios won a long bidding war today for rights to Asteroids to turn the iconic game into a film. Matthew Lopez (who wrote Bedtime Stories and Race to Witch Mountain) is attached to write the screenplay, and it will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (who is the producer behind the new GI Joe film).
