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Chris Hadfield Covers David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” On International Space Station Music Video

May 122013

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has served the Internet and nerd community well while on the International Space Station, creating many entertaining and educational viral videos directly from Space.

Before his return, he thought it fitting to end with some music. Obviously, few songs are more appropriate to cover in Space than David Bowie’s Space Oddity.

This is also happens to be a world record as the first music video recorded on the ISS and in Space in general.

The best, most advanced visual effects and computer graphics can’t compete with a real zero gravity environment.

Few scenes can trump Hadfield singing, “Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing left to do,” with a very blue Mother Earth literally behind him.

The resulting music video is truly stunning, and has instantly caught viral fever, already appearing on CBSNews, CNet, and TheVerge.

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SpaceX Grasshopper Rocket Launches, Hovers, And Lands

Apr 232013

SpaceX is one of the the world’s only private space exploration companies. When the company first started, many scoffed at the idea of private space exploration, but now, with videos like this one of their impressive rockets, they are being taken much more seriously.

Their latest achievement is the Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing Grasshopper rocket reaching a height of 820 feet in the air.

In this brand new video, the ten story rocket ignites, lifts off, hovers around 800 feet, and then safety and softly touches back down, all while Johnny Cash appropriately plays Ring Of Fire. Already, the new video has garnered over a quarter million views.

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Wringing Out A Wet Washcloth In Space

Apr 192013

Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency is currently stationed on the International Space Station. For a while now, he has been posting interesting and educational videos on YouTube, many of which have gone viral.

In his latest trending video, Chris shows viewers what happens when a soaking wet washcloth is wrung out. The results are simply glorious, and have already amassed over 800,000 views in just two days.

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What Happens When You Cry In Space

Apr 092013

Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield continues to churn out interesting and educational videos on YouTube for the general population to learn more about Space and functioning in weightlessness.

In his latest video to go viral, he demonstrates what happens when you cry in Space. Instead of rolling down you cheek and falling, tears simply build up on your face.

Now, the video, which just debuted over the weekend, has already amassed over half a million hits, and is further featured on YahooCanada, CBSNews, and YouTubeTrends.

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The Universe Explained In Regards To A YouTube Video

Mar 152013

The observable universe is 93 billion light years across. But how big is that really?

For comparison, Minute Physics says to imagine this 1920×1080 YouTube video had just one white pixel among all black ones. Then string those pixels side by side and squeeze them into the size of one pixel. And then do that again. And again.

That tiny dot that’s left after all the squeezing and compressing? Yea, that’ us compared to, not the rest of the universe, but just one tenth of the observable universe.

Chilling.