Curious about Curiosity? Apparently, if found something this week. What, exactly, remains something of a mystery, but will be revealed in December, after NASA has analyzed the data. Hopefully, this will be worth the wait—and the amount of idiotic speculation being tossed around the ‘Net.

Engineering Garbage

Fifteen-year-old genius has wowed MIT with his inventions, mostly engineered from rubbish.

They make great gaming figures!

Us a 3-D printer to make a model of yourself.

Travel destinations:

Recent discoveries in space include a galaxy, far, far away and Kappe Andromedae B, a planet with thirteen times Jupiter’s mass.

Take some light reading:

Two astronauts will spend a year in orbit.

Below, some cosplay at the recent Anime Festival Asia 2012, and other cute and strange video:

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Though it may recall some more chilling works:

Not far away from where I live, a scientific breakthrough with terrific (in both senses of the word) implications occurred: a doctor has communicated with a patient in a vegetative state.

They can’t wait for a more comfortable ride than the Soyuz:

Later today, you can watch the crew of the space station return home.

Bazinga, Doctor!

A couple impressive scientific developments which, however, really aren’t that much like Star Trek, and video of last week’s Big Bang Theory Flash Mob Event and Doctor Who Children in Need “minisode,” appear after the jump:

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The Tinfoil Hat Crowd still won’t believe it.
Despite some negative science-funding news at the end of this post, we’re hearing hints that NASA plans to send people back to the moon– and beyond— in the near future.

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him
The £12,000 Hand gives this amputee a new hold on life:

If they’d used feces and connected wheels, it would be the “Scatmobile”
These teenage girls have made a generator that runs on urine.

Forget Krypton:
DC may have identified the actual star that their fictional Krypton orbited, but it’s bested by “Super-Earth” HD 40307g, which is looking like a good place to search for life.

Serious breaking news and silly entertaining video below:

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But don’t get your hopes up too high, Pluto:

Fomulhaut B may be a planet after all. Its return from the dead has inspired NASA to make a Halloween-themed video about the finding:

That’s a small piece of history, a giant’s hand these did sign:

Neil Armstrong-related memorabilia is up for bid.

Keep watching the skies:

We have strange apparitions in the Canadian Maritime skies, but these flying objects aren’t necessarily unidentified.

This weekend also sees Atlantic Canada hosting Hal-Con. News coverage appears here, and a fan video below, along with some news from the International Space Station, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic…

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Keep watching the skies!
The annual Orionid Meteor Shower peaks tonight, October 20. Find out where and how you can observe it

Act now. Supplies are limited.
Want one of Endeavour’s “Shuttle Crossing” signs? They’re up for sale.

Must be that plasma it had for lunch:
This week the sun left fly a massive solar prominence.

Who’s going to be seeing this? Not Me!
The season has brought some terrifying films before, but I suspect nothing will be quite so soul-disturbing as this film, now in preproduction.

All agents are reminded that there is no official S.H.I.E.L.D sponsored pool on the number of times Mr. Stark will be required to take the sexual harassment seminar in a given month.

If you still haven’t seen the hilarious Memos from Nick Fury site, settle in and start scrolling.

Nerdy video below– and some comic-book news for trendy perverts:

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Geronim…. Holy *%!#!!!!!!

As I’m certain we all know by now, Felix Baumgartner successly dove from the edge of space and broke the sound barrier, the first person to do so without a vehicle, on the sixty-fifth anniversary of the first breaching of that barrier.

People there have very even tans.

Astronomers announce the discovery of a planet with four suns.

So Sheldon Cooper is right?

The brains of the autistic savant appear to be signficantly and measurably different than the norm.

Will they name it the “Om Nom Nom” Basin?

This crater on Mercury looks like a certain resident of Sesame Street.

You get that there junk-heap offa yer front lawn!

Endeavour has arrived at its new museum home.

You know, the one that’s still about comics?

Below: Video of Baumgartner’s dive, and some awesome cosplay from this weekend’s New York Comic-Con.

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Planets are a girl’s best friend:
A U.S./French team has discovered a planet, twice the size of the earth, made from diamonds.

Kind of an anti-climax after the diamond story:
Curiosity has fixed its gaze on a rock entirely unlike any other previously identified on Mars.

Pics or it didn’t happen:
Check out these photos of SpaceX Dragon’s flight to the International Space Station. (Video appears after the cut).

Cthulhu is a pirate!
A single giant eyeball washed ashore in Florida this week.

Well, that explains Paul Broun:
Crossbreading between Neandertals and the more familiar sort of human carried on longer than we previously thought.

Atomic tease!
Once again, we have a development that makes tantalizing but uncertain promises about energy from fusion.

Reddit may not be carrying this story:
Their biggest troll and creator of the now-defunct “jailbait” subreddit has been outed by Gawker.

Video follows. Some of it may even be interesting.

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A long time ago….
We’ve sighted the earliest and most distant galaxy yet.

This news might move you:
Evolution has been observed in e coli.

This still has a better chance of being better than every other sequel and prequel they’ve made to the original thus far:
They’ve cast Norman Bates for the forthcoming Psycho Prequel Series.

Video below includes the just-released latest Hobbit trailer, Deadpool Gangnam Style, a curious short film, and more!

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And maybe they’ll be able to explain the Olympic Opening Ceremony: The Queen’s astronomer, Lord Martin Rees, suggests our scanning of the cosmos may lead to the observation of alien life in the next forty years.

MacGyver lives! The crew of the International Space Station use a toothbrush to make an emergency repair.

Notify the conspiracy theorists: A recent notorious murder case may have an outer space connection.

Recovering past dreams: Brookyn-based Singularity and Company plans to save SF, one obscure classic at a time.

Don’t forget about medical research: Recent experiments suggest a possible treatment for Alzheimer’s.

Below: Political figures encourage space exploration, and images from the 2012 World SF Con in Chicago and DragonCon 2012 in Atlanta!

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