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answer that question the site has a tendency to hang i spent some time classifying stars and suffered a number of hangs still it is an interesting way to spend a little bit of time and could result in discoveries of planets in the kepler data diggit add to del icio us add to technorati faves posted by matt metcalf at 11 49 am 2 comments labels amateur research extrasolar planets kepler sunday february 7 2010 10 billion to save 8 7 million lives i like helping people that s why i belong to a volunteer service club within my community i also give my money to worthy organizations every year so imagine what i could do if i had billions of dollars last week the bill and melinda gates foundation announced that they would be committing 10 billion to provide vaccines against a wide range of diseases that is an incredible amount of money and could greatly reduce the occurrence of many preventable diseases possibly saving an estimated 8 7 million lives 7 6 million of them children under the age of 5 not to mention the number of people whose lives would simply be better according to the chronicle of philanthropy which covers non profit organizations this is the largest single amount ever committed for a specific cause it s also an incredible gesture and i applaud bill and melinda gates for taking this step diggit add to del icio us add to technorati faves posted by matt metcalf at 12 39 pm 4 comments labels vaccine nasa wants your input nasa has implemented an online brainstorming tool open to the general public seeking to improve openness transparency participation and collaboration here is your chance to participate in developing the future of america s space program as you may know i m a big fan of openness and transparency i m also a fan of collaboration in science and government in the united states we live in a participative democracy meaning that citizens are encouraged to get involved in government from writing your congressman to serving in the military to running for office nasa s implementation of a system like this will encourage participation in government which is a good thing the brainstorming system that they are using by ideascale allows for ideas to be submitted and voted upon by registered users as well as allowing comments like a blog for the purpose of opening discussions and if you have an account with google yahoo wordpress or aol you can log in by authenticating against that account so what are you waiting for go to the site and tell nasa what they need to be doing diggit add to del icio us add to technorati faves posted by matt metcalf at 12 13 pm 0 comments labels collaboration government nasa participation monday february 1 2010 the new improved nasa note cross posted to getting there from here if you follow space related news then by now you are surely aware that the white house released president obama s budget plan for 2011 2015 today and there is no funding for the constellation program the vision for space exploration created under bush in 2003 so what does that mean everybody has their own opinion but here s mine first it means that the more than 8 billion spent over the past 5 6 years is basically wasted money along with an additional 2 5 billion that will be spent to close down the program a lot of people thought that constellation was a flawed program including me but that s a lot of money to flush down the toilet sure not all of it was wasted money for example we produced a few new scientific and technical innovations out of that money but spending 8 9 billion to get what little we got a single demo flight with non representational hardware was a bit crazy and if constellation had continued the way it was going it would have been massively over budget and late on delivering on its goals still that means that the government will have spent more than 3 500 for each man woman and child in this country on a program that effectively accomplished very little at the same time a new generation of rocket scientists got some first hand experience at designing and building new or at least updated versions of old rocketry systems again a pretty expensive price to pay to get some people some good experience but given that the average age of our rocket scientists has been climbing since the 1960s that s not really a bad thing but that s what it means for the past what does it mean for the future well that s pretty tough to say since predicting the future is always a challenge but here is what is being proposed nasa will abandon low earth orbit leo to companies like spacex encouraging and financially supporting a commercial space industry instead nasa will focus on the heavy lift programs necessary to get us to the moon mars and asteroids nasa will spend 7 8 billion between 2011 and 2015 on advanced technology demonstration programs to explore more advanced exploration options this includes in orbit propellant transfer closed loop life support automated maneuvering and docking systems and inflatable space modules similar to the ones that bigelow aerospace is experimenting with perhaps the new focus on partnerships will allow nasa and bigelow to work together on these all of these technologies will be essential to exploring our solar system and beyond in addition nasa will spend 3 1 billion on research into new propulsion systems hopefully solar sails and vasimr will be included in this spending and another 3 billion on robotic missions to pave the way for human exploration all of this means that with the space shuttle fleet retiring later this year nasa does not have any way to get crew into orbit other than to pay 51 million per flight to the russian space agency for launches aboard soyuz capsules to alleviate this nasa is encouraging commercial spaceflight companies to pick up the slack by allocating 5 8 billion for crew launches provided by commercial operators with the money already allocated to spacex and orbital as part of the cots program they have an advantage over other small operators but with that much money on the line you can bet that boeing lockheed martin and others including perhaps the joint venture united space alliance which operates the space shuttle program will jump into the fray with commercial offerings and with the cancellation of constellation and the end of the massively expensive space shuttle program more money will be available for basic scientific reasearch in the areas of earth observation and astrophysics most interesting to me are added funding to get mars science laboratory launched in 2011 and a probably 2014 launch for the james webb space telescope i personally like nasa s renewed focus on research and development while letting business enterprises commercialize the results on behalf of the government too much of nasa s budget over the past two decades has been spent on the space shuttle and international space station programs while those programs have provided benefits notably in the areas of living and working in orbit including orbital construction methods the costs once again far outweighed the benefits the new plan will hopefully shake a lot of complacency out of the system and encourage creative thinking and innovation while also spurring commercial development of space travel and exploration diggit add to del icio us add to technorati faves posted by matt metcalf at 6 55 pm 4 comments labels nasa space shuttle space travel monday november 23 2009 lhc back online scientists at cern turned the large hadron collider back on and injected protons into the particle stream on friday resuming operations for the first time in a year last year shortly after it became operational for the first time the lhc experienced a failure in one of the containment magnets that keeps the particles within their track and going around in circles because of the tremendous forces required these magnets are extremely powerful and if they become misaligned by even a tiny amount they can fail catastrophically destroying themselves that s what happened last year and resulted in repairs and replacement of the magnet it took a while to complete the repairs because the lhc is kept at a brisk 271 c and had to be warmed up slowly repaired and cooled back down slowly but the work is finally done and science is once again underway at the world s most powerful particle collider and in case you hadn t noticed it still hasn t destroyed the world diggit add to del icio us add to technorati faves posted by matt metcalf at 11 01 pm 3 comments labels lhc particle physics physics thursday november 19 2009 be a martian regular readers of this blog if there are any know that i m a big fan of things that people like you and me can do to help advance science and technology well now thanks to microsoft and nasa there s another opportunity and this one is very cool microsoft and nasa have teamed together to create be a martian a new website where you can help contribute to our understanding of mars by participating in the site which largely consists of combing through the vast quantity of mars images and classifying them as well as participating in surveys and discussions you can earn badges and reputation points but more importantly you can help our understanding of our red neighbor the knowledge you help provide may give some indication of where to look for microbial life past or present it may help find suitable locations for manned missions or even long term colonies i haven t had a chance to do much other than view a few videos so far but it looks very interesting and i ve bookmarked it so i can return this weekend and spend some time contributing to the future of science and technology diggit add to del icio us add to technorati faves posted by matt metcalf at 11 36 pm 0 comments labels amateur research mars nasa friday october 30 2009 masten space qualifies for lunar lander challenge x prize note cross posted to the blog at getting there from here congratulations to masten space systems on successfully completing their qualifying flight for the 1 million prize in the northrop grumman lunar lander challenge x prize they join armadillo aerospace in qualifying for this prize to qualify both companies had to demonstrate control of their vehicle by flying to an altitude of more than 50 meters flying laterally for 100 meters and landing on a simulated lunar surface complete with craters and boulders after doing so they vehicle had to take off from the simulated lunar surface and return to its starting point with the option of refueling the vehicle between flights and oh yeah they had to complete all of this including any necessary refueling in less than two and a half hours another team unreasonable rocket will attempt to complete their qualification tomorrow bonnova had intended to compete but had to withdraw we at getting there from here are huge fans of these types of competitions as they allow a small amount of money to go a long long way in this case the 2 million total prize money for the lunar lander challenge has generated more than 20 million in research on rockets and helped at least a couple of small entrepreneurial rocket companies to literally get off the ground kudos to the x prize foundation and northrop grumman for organizing and funding such a great contest if you want to read the master press release about the successful flight it is here diggit add to del icio us add to technorati faves posted by matt metcalf at 7 37 pm 2 comments labels getting there from here launch space x prize older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe in a reader blog archive 2010 4 december 1 now you can find planets around other stars at home february 3 2009 8 november 2 october 1 july 2 january 3 2008 157 december 1 august 26 july 34 june 62 may 25 april 2 march 2 february 4 january 1 2007 102 december 3 november 2 october 1 september 2 august 5 july 3 june 11 may 10 april 16 march 16 february 13 january 20 2006 23 december 23 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