Lightning Rings: Almost Rocket Science
Check out what Alan is up to over at Almost Scientific. It’s electric.
Photo by Nick Winterhalter
Posts tagged Inspiration
Space Pennants: Bas Relief Badges
Some of these fantastic pieces are space pennants, which were created to travel aboard actual spacecraft as a sort of time capsule and proof of passage. Both Soviet and American spacecraft carried such pieces, which were designed to survive planetary impact, even to the extent that they were carried in protective shells with explosive charges [...]
The Future that Never Was on Paleo Future Blog
Humanity has been looking forward to the age of the jetpack for some years now. Sometimes the results are beautiful utopias that may yet materialize. More often are humourous and naive dreams. Paleo-Future Blog brings it all to you.
Still waiting for your flying car?
Ready to escape earth for your dream home in outer space?
Scientifiction: Planet of Futuristic Art Discovered
I’ve been searching the universe for out of this world visual inspiration, and I’ve found a solid gold planet’s worth. Italian Fabio Femino’s web archive is f’ing full of futurism. From pulp novels to magazine cover’s to official space agency illustrations, he’s got it all–page after page after f’ing page.
It’s where fact meets theory meets [...]
Dan Cormier’s Raygun Gothic Childhood
It was an innocent time when humanity’s apparent path of forward progress was most purely symbolized by it’s inevitable arc upward and outward to the stars. Sleek and stylish rocketships carried our imaginations in soft force fields of anti-gravity cushioned comfort to a future where space dogs spoke accented english and robots did the dishes.
Back from Mars. Feeling refreshed
If only I didn’t have to do my taxes now.
