May 7, 2010
I must admit that of all free online simulation games, I love strategic multiplayer ones the most. Here at MakeUseOf, we love simulations, like the car simulations Karl covered, or the Google Earth flight simulator that Leon wrote about. While these are fun, it’s the multiplayer space battle games that I really love – like [...]
March 3, 2010
Once in a while we are faced with a particular use of technology that changes how we interact with the world around us, but it’s not often that we find technology to help imagine what it’s like to travel through space and understand the universe beyond our world. Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope does just that. WorldWide [...]
January 28, 2010
I love NASA – plain and simple. There’s no getting around it. While my colleagues at work spend their lunch break surfing the daily news, I have my nose buried in the latest NASA mission, looking at images from the latest NASA Mars rovers update, or watching the NASA TV live feed. What I love [...]
January 6, 2010
I took astronomy in college. I always liked to gaze at the stars but today I really have no real knowledge of the heavens other than what was covered in school. Where I live, I also do not get a chance to see the stars or constellations in the sky due to smog, pollution and [...]
October 16, 2009
To me, nothing comes close to the fascinating beauty and wonder of space. Technology and the Web makes it possible for any amateur stargazer or space enthusiast to explore beyond the night sky from the comfort of your own computer. Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope (WWT) computer program is just one example of how the science of [...]
July 29, 2009
The idea on which NASA is based is a fairly simple one and one which many of us understand. Space exploration and discovery isn’t too hard of a concept to get your head around. However, there are hundreds of day-to-day NASA activities and even bigger achievements that we know nothing about either because it doesn’t [...]
