It’s not just fast cars, luxury villas, beautiful models, fine clothes, good service and champagne that we care about here at 2oceansvibe. Oh no – science and technology are right up there as well. How else could we have created SilverStreak, using merely my thoughts and a strand of hair from the TBG? Correct – “science” helped us with that. And with regards to technology…pfffft…please, look where you are! And anyway, have you never heard about The Tech Report?

Catch a wake-up, china!

SilverStreak – chilling out between articles
[photo by robert miller]

So now that we’ve established a bit of cred with regards to science and tech (*cough* throw in HD Science in matric for good measure) I think we can happily stroll into a chat about satellites.

Are you aware that there are over 13,000 satellites in space, looking down on earth? I certainly didn’t. Look, I know space is quite “vast” but it is quite amazing that those were all shot up into space by humans. quietly. Over the years…

This video is quite impressive..

Watch it:

This is what BoingBoing tells us:

Here’s a visualization of the 13,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Intellectually, I know that these still represent an infinitesimal drop in the overall volume of their orbits, but it sure looks crowded when you see it like this. The Google Earth blog also has a realtime feed of their current positions.

And who said science and technology couldn’t be sexy?

Mmmm… you feeling it?

How about this…

2HCl + FeS = H2s + FeCl2

Aaah….. yes!!!!!

[it should be noted that the above equation came directly out of my head – stuck there from learning it as a rap song I made up before matric finals – no spice. God knows what it means]

[thanks nico]