The Turtle Could Revolutionize Air Travel

Can Turtles really fly? I really hope so because one is being designed to do just that. It is said to take off and land like helicopter, plus it runs on mostly solar power. I do not know about you but I would be pretty hesitant to ride in one of these.

"Turtle Airship just might be the future of air travel - if it delivers on all of its promises. This airship doesn't look anything like the Goodyear blimp. It has a rigid exterior shell that resembles, well, a turtle shell. The shell is covered in solar panels that provide the ship's main source of power. When solar energy is not available, the Turtle is designed to run on back-up, biodiesel engines. Here's all of the good things I've heard and read about this marvel:

* It runs on solar, so emissions and energy costs would be low.
* It takes off and lands like a helicopter, and can land just about anywhere on land or water. It can touch down in the middle of the ocean or the middle of the desert.
* It can travel at speeds of 200 mph, which, though a third of the speed of a traditional airplane, is still pretty quick. You can spend your extra time on the ship thinking about how much carbon emissions you saved."

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For Better or Worse, Sex in Space is Inevitable

just like everyone else people that go into outer space for a long period of time will most likely buildup in a need for some sort of sexual contact. NASA has been trying to downplay the whole sex in space thing.faithfulness to your husband or wife will be a hard thing for any astronauts going to Mars for three years. Especially since NASA has said that they will send a mixed group of males and females. Here is a little bit of the article:

"Weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner.

The Japanese firm First Advantage and the U.S.-based private spaceflight firm Rocketplane Global, Inc., announced last week they will host weddings in space for about $2.3 million (240 million yen) apiece.

For all we know, sex in space has already taken place. But NASA officials aren't talking about that much.

Beyond space tourism as a platform for steamy shenanigans, space missions are the perfect petri dishes for close encounters, and this year NASA certainly has a busy flight schedule, with five missions planned. And more countries than ever are now venturing into space, with Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata slated to become Japan's first long-duration space flyer this year and China gearing up for its first spacewalk scheduled for October."

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Landscapes Of Mars

Some of the satellite images of Mars are just absolutely astonishing. Images of the big red planet reveal avalanches, sand dunes, and much more. Here's a little bit from the article and some pictures.

"The HiRISE has uncovered a wealth of information in a canyon bank at Chasma Boreale at Mars’s north pole. Here, the canyon has eroded to reveal layers of minerals and other materials. The layers are rich in water ice, while the dark material toward the bottom is most likely sand dunes. These layers are helping scientists decode Mars’s recent climate variations."

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