Scale of the universe - awesome widget.

[crabfoot]

Me, I'm waiting for the big "space cowboy finale", in which Marshal Unpronouncable rides in with a battle fleet from somewhere near Messier 622 to carry out a demolition sentence on Earth for blinding several gentle and quiet races in the Magellanic arms by broadcasting Peyton Place repeats to them ...

[TheodoreK]

You write? Cool, anything published?

Nothing worth mentioning yet!

Love all those guys but don't read them as much these days since the latest generation of scifi authors has changed everything in my view. The science is so cutting edge that the stuff written in the 50s, 60s and 70s seems impossibly out of date now. I read it more for reasons of nostalgia than anything else.

The good thing with dead (or retired) writers is that they don't write anymore! So you can eventually read everything they wrote and then move on Some Heinlein novels were outdated before they even circulated but, in my opinion, this did not subtract from their greatness.

I love Stephen Baxter (who actually changed my perspective on life) and Alastair Reynolds. Proper hard core real physics space opera type stuff, fab. Baxter writes historical fiction as well as the scifi, also very good.

Thanks!

[Clinton]

If you liked scaleoftheuniverse, you'll like this site (the story behind which is going viral on tech sites):
Unemployed game designer creates mind-blowing solar system explorer app

[JJMcClure]

Hmmm, that site is being blocked by my Bullguard antivirus with the following explanation:

For your security BullGuard has blocked access to this page
The site is listed as a malicious site that may be stealing identity information, plant viruses on your machine or do other harmful things.

The information we have indicate that this site:
- Has been promoted through spam techniques.

I'm reluctant to override it but I would like to see what that site is about, it sounds really interesting, anyone else got any feedback on this?

[Clinton]

Youtube
Original mention in Reddit
Designer's story

[JJMcClure]

Youtube
Original mention in Reddit
Designer's story

Thanks, I did Google it to see if I could find any mentions but those didn't return. Google is rubbish...

However, I did find this wicked tool/App from NASA (developed at JPL) - http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/ Just playing with it now.

"Eyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. Explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time."