Concept of Spacecraft with Asteroid Capture Mechanism Deployed-By leveraging capabilities across all of NASA, the agency is developing a first-ever mission to identify, rendezvous with, capture and redirect a small asteroid into a stable orbit in the lunar vicinity, and then send humans to visit it using the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. This mission … [Read more...] about Desperately Seeking A New Natural Satellite or Renew the Space Race and Find Our Adventurer’s Soul
Archives for April 2013
‘Right’ And ‘Wrong’ Are Not Necessarily Top Down
If you think your moral compass uses some higher power to attract its True North, consider this story on Science Friday that explores empathy and the sense of right and wrong among primates. Perhaps as the brain gets bigger, fairness emerges in social animals as an adaptive survival trait. From Science Friday: Searching for the Roots of 'Right' and 'Wrong' In The … [Read more...] about ‘Right’ And ‘Wrong’ Are Not Necessarily Top Down