Academic Videos: Space Science
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 | Rusty Schweickart
Astronaut
The Asteroid Threat over the next 100,000 years
on: Long Now Foundation
The epitome of long-term thinking is to take seriously the protection of the Earth from massive asteroid impacts, which in the past have extincted as much as 90% of life on Earth. Rusty Schweickart details graphically the results of his research on asteroid impact frequency and damage, along with what it will take to find and deflect future threatening asteroids.
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 | Marcelo Vasquez
Brookhaven National Laboratory
401st Brookhaven Lecture by Marcelo Vasquez
on: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hazards of the Deep: Killing the Dragons -- Neurobiological Consequences of Space Radiation Exposures. Vazquez discusses his research projects and how scientists from NASA, national laboratories, and other institutions worldwide have expanded the understanding of the link between ionizing radiation and neurodegeneration. February 15, 2005.
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 | Darrell Jan
California Institute of Technology, NASA
NASA Life Sciences Research In Bioengineering
on: Caltech
Dr. Darrell Jan, AEMC Project Manager, Biomedical and Environmental Technologies at JPL, presented this lecture as part of the 0.1 Seminar series. He gives an overview of the current efforts to leverage advances in microelectronics and biotechnology toward future NASA missions, which will require technologies that enable humans to live and function effectively in space for much longer periods and with reductions in size, mass, and power.
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 | Edward Stone
California Institute of Technology, Nasa
Edward Stone: The Voyager Journeys to Interstellar Space
on: Caltech
Dr. Edward Stone, the David Morrisroe Professor of Physics at Caltech, spoke about the two Voyagers, launched twenty-five years ago, as they continue their journeys as the first interstellar probes, searching for the outer boundary of the heliospheric bubble surrounding the Sun that marks the beginning of interstellar space.
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 | Erk Antonsson
California Institute of Technology, JPL
Advanced Technology for Space Exploration
on: Caltech
In the inaugural Victor Wouk Lecture, Erik Antonsson, chief technologist at JPL and professor of mechanical engineering at Caltech, provided an overview of the JPL Strategic Technology Plan, along with highlights of recent successes and future missions.
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Speaker: Richard Feynman
Time: 50 minutes Fifty minutes of PURE Feynman! This is the original Horizon Nova interview - essential for any Feynman fan... and for everyone else too!
THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales -- about childhood, Los Alamos, or how he won a Nobel Prize -- are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.
'The 1981 Feynman Horizon is the best science program I have ever seen. This is not just my opinion - it is also the opinion of many of the best scientists that I know who have seen the program... It should be mandatory viewing for all students whether they be science or arts students.' - Professor Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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