Once inside the isolation chamber, the team will live their lives as if they are on a space mission, with just frozen meals to eat, no natural sunlight and a 20-minute delay to their communication with “ground control”. They will be expected to perform tasks such as cleaning, cooking and conducting scientific experiments, while being studied by outside researchers.

‘Mars on Earth’ mission one step closer to launch – space – 11 November 2008 – New Scientist

Scene from Antarctica

Photo ganked from the Boston’s very pretty photoset Scenes from Antarctica:

A full moon and 25 second exposure allowed sufficient light into this photo taken at Amundsen-Scott…

gwendolyn huskens is a designer studying at the design academy in eindhoven…at the recent graduation show, she presented a set of six shoes called ‘medic esthetic’.

aiming to reveal the…

gwendolyn huskens’s “medic esthetic” footwear