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Caveman design keychain: blog image to 18K gold jewelry 3D print!
We’re having fun showing our most popular blog and photo posts can now be turned in real, shop-ready products thanks to the maker movement. As an example of data-driven social media, we repurposed a popular image from our social media feed into a 3D printed jewelry item available that is ready-for-purchase in 18K gold and other materials. (Separately, we also converted this blog photo into an in-game virtual reality object, permitting a virtual reality fashion shoot.) This caveman design keychain was co-designed and generated in part by an 11,000-year old caveman illustration of a woolly-mammoth in France. (You can read our original blog article with illustration here. Also, check out a cool data-driven social media video we created featuring some of these items, as well as more serious pop-scientific article on potentially de-extincting the woolly mammoth for interstellar space travel someday.) You can use the Shapeways widget below to manipulate the 3D object and see it from a variety of viewpoints (as well as buy the physical object in a wide-variety of materials, from the extremely inexpensive to the very expensive): So we can say that this keychain was truly co-designed by a French Cro-magnon caveman living 11,000 years ago.… Read the restMartians making Mars canals: Solution to yesterday’s puzzle
Yesterday we presented a puzzle photo. We promised to explain the relationship between the Panama Canal and Mars. Shown here in glorious black and white is the 1887 map by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. It shows “Mars canals.” Were these canals dug by intelligent Martians? Many in the 19th century thought so, and thought they had found proof of space aliens in their telescopes! Schiaperelli (and many others) thought they observed “canals” on Mars.(The map is in Italian or Latin with some legends in German, in part because this version was taken from an 1888 German encyclopedia version.)This has since been shown to be optical illusions; modern high-resolution maps of Mars show no such features.Part of it was mistranslation. Schiaperelli’s use of “Kanal” was translated into English as “canal”, but the usage in the original meant something closer to “channel”, a more neutral term suggesting a natural feature. In any event, everyone got very excited that there might be intelligent Martians building an advanced canal system on Mars for transport.… Read the restPuzzle photo: Panama Canal related to Mars?
For today’s photo post, we have a puzzle: how is the Panama Canal related to the Planet Mars? Continuing on our earlier Mars theme, this is the Panama Canal, as viewed from the top of Ancon Hill in November 2009. Many giant ship container cranes are visible, together with shipping contains, and builds. There is a tiny-looking ship off to the left, and mountains, grass, clouds, and sky in the distance. The blue water of the canal runs through the center of the photo. Wait, did we say Mars theme? What does the Panama Canal have to do with Mars? Photo credit: Wikimedia/Brian Gratwicke/CC-BY-2 A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restMars One lander: candidate selection milestone
Shown here is an artist’s drawing for the Nasa Phoenix robot lander probe. Mars One is financing a scout probe based on this design to make an initial robotic survey trip, scheduled for 2018. Mars One was in the news today. Mars One achieved a major candidate selection milestone, narrowing down the candidates for their privately-funded one-way trip to Red Planet to 50 men and 50 women. We’re continuing our recent theme of photo posts on Martian colonization. THis theme is coincidentally just in time for this news. A one-way trip to a permanent space colony, with no possibility of return if something goes wrong, will greatly reduce the weight and complexity of the spacecraft. Mars One hopes it will shaves decades off the preparation time, albeit not without criticism for greatly increasing the risks to the explorers by eliminating the safety-net of a round trip. (Mars is still risky business, as becomes clear from the number of probes that have been lost over the years.)… Read the restRecent Posts
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