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nick dewolf

1960

Reminder: One day we’ll all return to sand… So find the courage to open your heart to new opportunities, new experiences, new possibilities, and new adventures. When you live with an open heart, beautiful things will happen. I promise.

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Cool video, but I’d rather save my pennies for a self-driving car.

Arca Space’s ArcaBoard now costs $14,900, but still only flies for six minutes.  

The Dawn Of The Age Of Responsive Media

This year's CES announcements were more exciting to me than ever before. Sure, we've already seen dozens of drones, exoskeletons, robots, rollable displays, virtual- and augmented-reality headsets, as well as personalized artificial intelligence for smart phones, smart homes, driver-assisted and autonomous cars (aka autonomobiles) and more over the years. They're [...]

Forget about choose-your-own-adventure. Responsive media will offer immersive experiences that adapt “dynamically to the consumer’s attention, engagement and context”.

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Statistics in the digital age.

Solar System: 5 Things To Know This Week

We live during one of the great eras of exploration. At this very moment, there are dozens of spacecraft surveying the solar system, from Mars, to Saturn, to Pluto and beyond. What’s more, you can ride along with these expeditions — all you need is an internet connection to see the latest discoveries from deep space. Here are a few essential resources for the armchair astronaut:

1. It’s Like Facebook, but for Planets

Or is it more of a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System? Whatever you want to call it, our Planets page offers quick rundowns, as well as in-depth guides, for all the major bodies in the solar system. Explore from the sun all they way out to the Oort Cloud.

2. Robots to the Rescue

Saturn looks spectacular through a telescope, but there’s only so much you can learn about it from the ground. Going there in person is tough, too. While we are now preparing to send astronauts beyond Earth orbit, a human mission to Saturn won’t be possible in the near future. That’s where the space robots come in. For example, the Cassini spacecraft studies Saturn and its moons up close, sometimes even doing things like flying right through the geyser plumes of the ice moon Enceladus. See all the solar system missions, past and present, where they went and what they’ve seen HERE.

3. Keep Your Eyes on This One

If you still haven’t tried Eyes on the Solar System, you’re missing out. This online simulation lets you tour the planets and track the past, current and future positions of spacecraft — right in your web browser, all in 3D. Eyes on the Solar System uses real NASA data to help you take a virtual flight across both space and time.

4. Images in the Raw

You don’t have to wait for a news release to see pictures from planetary missions. Some missions allow you to see raw, unprocessed images sent straight from the spacecraft. What these images lack in explanatory captions they make up for in freshness — sometimes you can see pictures from Mars or Saturn that are mere hours old. There’s something exhilarating about being among the first human beings ever to see an alien landscape. Peruse our new raw image pages HERE.

5. Bring It On Home

After you’ve toured the far reaches of the solar system, you can always come home again. When you have spent time studying the harsh conditions of our neighboring planets, the charms of a unique paradise come into sharp focus, the place we call Earth. Watch a real-time video feed from Earth orbit HERE. You can also see a daily global view of our planet from a million miles away HERE. Download THIS Earth Now mobile app to hold the planet in your hands.

Want to learn more? Read our full list of the 10 things to know this week about the solar system HERE.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com

I answered 11 of 12 questions correctly!  What’s your score? 

What does “URL” stand for? What was the first widely popular graphical Web browser? Which university was the first on Facebook?

Test your knowledge of technology and the web by taking our short 12-question quiz. When you finish, you will be able to compare your “Web IQ” with the average online American based on the results of our nationally representative survey of 1,066 adult internet users. 

Click here to take the Web IQ quiz

John Nelson Creates Stunning Visuals of Earth ‘Breathing’

John Nelson, noted for creating remarkable visualizations depicting weather conditions of the planet, has come up with a pulsating GIF that shows the heartbeat of the Earth in a course of seasonal changes through NASA’s satellite photography. View his other amazing GIF below. 

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Want to improve your social media marketing? Practice these rules.

Each person in the world (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook) is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people.

Sergey Edunov, Carlos Diuk, Ismail Onur Filiz, Smriti Bhagat, and Moira Burke. Research at Facebook. Feb 4, 2016.

“The Future of Football: How Technology Could Shape the Next 50 Years of the Game.” In the final countdown to Super Bowl Sunday, Microsoft imagines how the augmented reality technology could reshape how sports fans experience the big game.

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Buddha   (via quotemadness)