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BSA battling on Space Station Part 1 (Natural Selection 2)
The BSA guys find themselves far away from home on a space station they make friends with the local forces and then attack each other. Game:Natural Selection...

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Review from Blaine Bushell
Blaine Bushell, a customer at our Uxbridge store, tells us about his experience at Space Station Self Storage.

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Kerbal Space Program: Launching a space station
In this video I Launch a space station into orbit on kerbal space program. Songs: Witty- Youth No Trace - N.A.S.A.

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Space Station Live: HD Earth-View Cameras Heading to Station
Space Station Live commentator Pat Ryan interviews Lori Motes, the lead engineer of the High-Definition Earth Viewing experiment that will fly to station on ...

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Dead Space 2 - What does it feel like to fly [1080p HD Xbox 360 PS3]
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Astronauts, get your welding goggles on the space station is going into the foundry business. The International Space Station (ISS) is set to do a spot of industrial research this June, when ESAs Materials Science Laboratory-Electromagnetic Levitator (MSL-EML) heads for the station aboard Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle 5 (ATV-5) Georges Lematre unmanned space freighter as part of a program to study the casting of alloys in a weightless environment.

Most metals have are crystalline and their properties depend on this microstructure, which develops as they cool. An everyday version of this is tempering, where a steel knife blade is heated to red hot and then plunged into cold water. The sudden cooling alters the crystalline microstructure of the steel, making it hard and able to hold a sharp edge.

The example is a simple one, but the process is actually extremely complex. Its even more so when molten metal is cooled inside a casting. The temperature and density differences, convection forces as the cooling molten metal rises and falls in the mold, and any number of other factors are among the many reasons why casting metals, especially exotic alloys, is often as much art as science.

Microgravity is one way of reducing this complexity, so scientists are better able to understand it. In the absence of gravity, there aren't any convection forces, so metal castings have an even temperature. Furthermore, in a gravity-free environment metal samples can be suspended in a magnetic field and heated using conduction coils. This means there are no complicating factors, such as the molten sample sticking to a crucible wall or being contaminated by it.

By means of microgravity, scientists hope to gain a better understanding of an alloys surface tension, viscosity, melting range, fraction solid, specific heat, heat of fusion, mass density, and thermal expansion among other things. This would be of tremendous importance for everything from casting turbine blades to developing lighter weight alloys.

The problem is, there isn't a lot of of microgravity on Earth and most of that involves falling. You can get 20 seconds in an airplane during a parabolic trajectory and six minutes in a sounding rocket, but neither of those are very practical for carrying out metallurgical research. To get serious, you need a space station. And on the ISS, theres all the microgravity you want.

Weighing about 360 kg (795 lb), the MSL-EML was built by Airbus Defence and Space in collaboration with ESA and the DLR Space Administration. It consists of an automated chamber that keeps samples in a vacuum or a controlled gas mixture. In addition to electromagnetic levitation and induction heating coils, there is a digital video observation camera, a high-speed data camera capable of capturing up to 30,000 images per second, and a pyrometer.

When activated, the MSL-EML automatically feeds one of 18 spherical samples, 5 to 8 mm in diameter, consisting of various aluminum, copper, and nickel alloys into the process chamber using a rotating magazine. The machine uses electromagnetic fields to levitate samples in a the container, keeping them out of contact with the walls or any other materials. Then the inductive heating pushes the sample temperatures up to 2,000 C (3,600 F), reducing them to a liquid state.

In such a controlled environment, scientists will be able to dial-in various factors and study how such samples change as they cool and solidify. Theres no need for crucibles, which could contaminate the samples, and the samples aren't under the influence of gravity, which would deform the developing crystals or set up convection currents, resulting in uneven cooling. Meanwhile, the sensors record every detail of the process.

According to ESA, the microgravity containerless system produces a purer sample with fewer variables to take account of. The findings from the MSL-ELM can be compared to computer models and findings from experiments conducted on similar samples on Earth on parabolic flights.

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The comedic sci-fi drama stars out actor Matt Bomer and is written and directed by Jack Plotnick

Space Station 76, starring openly gay heartthrob Matt Bomer, will get its South By Southwest premiere this weekend, and has already been picked international distribution with Sony Pictures Worldwide, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Domestic rights were previously secured through Preferred Content. Bomer is joined by Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson, and the film is helmed by Jack Plotnick, who also wrote the script along with Jennifer Cox, Sam Pancake, Kali Rocha, and Michael Stoyanov.

Set in a highly stylized, 1970s version of the future, Space Station 76 is a light-hearted drama focusing on the situations caused by the arrival of a new female assistant captain. But as personalities collide onboard when an approaching asteroid threatens the lives of the entire crew.

In addition to his career as a writer-director, Jack Plotnick previously performed in roles in television shows such as Ellen, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Nip/Tuck. However, he may be more famous as his drag persona Evie Harris from the film Girls Will Be Girls.

Along with his co-stars Coco Peru and Varla Simonds, Plotnick received awards from both OutFest and the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

While no date for a wide release has been announced, the films Facebook page notes that fans should "look for it" in early 2014.

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