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DIA conspiracy promoted to one of history’s greatest!

The Daily Telegraph in the UK recently compiled a list of "History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories" – and the contributors have put the murals at Denver International Airport at number five! The DIA conspiracy is beaten out only by NASA moon landings, Roswell, JFK and 9/11. The paper notes how th ... More >>

Going for the Gourd

Geeks make good at Aurora's pumpkin toss.

Best Place to Tell Your Significant Other It's Over

Sacre Bleu

Drink of the Week

Luna-Tic

Best New Club

hi-dive/Sputnik

Chafing Dishes

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Balloon Bonanza

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Space Case

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Rocket Man

David Grinspoon is popularizing science, one alien joke at a time.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

David Grinspoon is popularizing science, one alien joke at a time.

Scratching the Surface

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Baroque and Roll

Red Priest rocks the classical canon

Contact!

The Mars Rover, live from Denver

Flight Club

Kites unite in One Sky

Mad About Mars

Mars is close enough to pinch during Mars Marathon.

The Final Frontier

In the deadly race to circle the globe in a balloon, team Re/Max plans to rise above the crowd. But can a bold ego go where no man has gone before?

Mars or Bust

The sky's no limit for these Colorado scientists. They're heading straight for the Red Planet.

Filling the Void

It had to happen: outer-space law and outer-space lawyers.

5...4...3...2...1...HEADS UP

It had to happen: outer-space law and outer-space lawyers.

Urbavore's Dilemma: Growing weird with Russ Dale's mystic space garden

Joel WarnerThe Great Experimenters (from left): James Quirk, Barnabas Von Scarecrow, Russ Dale and Matt Twardy Urbavore's Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers' commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, co ... More >>

Centennial's United Launch Alliance taking off with smaller crew

Photo by Pat Corkery, United Launch AllianceA United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket set to launch in Florida this afternoon. United Launch Alliance, based in Centennial, is earning some nice ink today in relation to its Atlas V rocket, which is scheduled to boost the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter an ... More >>

UFO booster Jeff Peckman's anti-NASA screed

Jeff Peckman as he appeared on 9News' "Your Show." Examiner.com, another enterprise bankrolled by Denver-based billionaire Phil Anschutz (currently in danger of losing a a button or two on his shirt related to an aborted Michael Jackson tour he bankrolled), attempts to rack up web hits with help fr ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 29 edition

Zoning out.... Changing channels? Today in Cafe Society: • ESPN ZONE turns off the scoreboard, blames economy. • Tonight: A symphony of food and wine at Opus. • Milking It: All-Bran Yogurt Bites. • Bad weekend for barbecue at Big Hoss, Q Worldly Barbecue. • Bye-bye, Brandon's. • Arriv ... More >>

Q&A with Moon director Duncan Jones

Courtesy of Sony PicturesSam Rockwell in "Moon." Moon, which opens on Friday, July 3, at the Mayan Theatre, is a low-budget science-fiction film that shoots for the stratosphere using ideas, not computer graphics and flashy effects. That it does so well with so little is a testament to the performa ... More >>

Get your fake moon rocks here

An image from the Zybek website. Been looking everywhere for realistic representations of the lunar surface? Look no more. Zybek Advanced Products, a Boulder-based firm just chosen for assistance by a University of Colorado-affiliated nonprofit dedicated to promoting space-industry entrepreneurship ... More >>

George H.W. Bush's speech to schoolchildren: There's no room for drugs in space

George H.W. Bush.​As noted in our blog about a Douglas County school allowing parents to opt out of letting their kids watch President Barack Obama's speech to children on Tuesday, we pointed out that other Commanders-in-Chief have directly addressed younglings -- among them President George W ... More >>

The Obama administration: a Colorado College cabal?

​Every presidency has its own biases about the kind of education that makes for good leaders. JFK stacked the deck with Harvard grads; Bush I and Bush II leaned toward Yalies, of course. Snobbery, Eastern elitism, Ivy Leaguism--it's been expected of the White House since the days of Woodrow Wi ... More >>

This is what silver balloon boy Falcon Heene was imagining: Flight of the Navigator!

Okay, now that the kid-in-a-runaway-ballon-saga has ended safely with 6-year-old Falcon Heene being discovered in hiding in his family's attic, I can finally say out loud what every male who came of age in the 80's was thinking while viewing the fantasical footage of the silver, billowing aircraft ... More >>

The Stars Have Aligned at CSFAC

Okay, now that the kid-in-a-runaway-ballon-saga has ended safely with 6-year-old Falcon Heene being discovered in hiding in his family's attic, I can finally say out loud what every male who came of age in the 80's was thinking while viewing the fantasical footage of the silver, billowing aircraft ... More >>

Catching The Heart is a Drum Machine on the second rotation

The first time The Heart is a Drum Machine caught my eye was sometime in March when it popped up on my Netflix Instant queue. It looked interesting -- but I quickly moved on to something else -- probably something with explosions or monsters or some obscure foreign film that put me to sleep. Eithe ... More >>

New Ancient Astronauts invoke the ancient days of our youth in this week's flier

​There's a lot to like about this week's flier. First off, who doesn't love LEGO? And can we get a "hell, yeah" for the way the New Ancient Astronauts have cleverly incorporated the LEGO Space Authority's orbiting rocket symbol into the Colorado state flag? Even the eye-bleed-inducing color sc ... More >>

Lust-Cats of the Gutters submit "Moon Milk" for NASA's wake up contest

Sarah Cass​Apparently, for the last forty years or so, NASA has chosen Top-40 songs that the astronauts wake up to every morning on their missions. This year, prior to the April 1 launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, NASA, uh, launched the "Space Rock" song contest, which inspired The Lust-C ... More >>

Sierra Nevada Systems, SpaceX to help Denver-Boulder area become Silicon Valley of space?

Sierra NevadaThe Dream Chaser​These days, as the government slashes NASA's budget and entrepreneurs start making inroads towards the heavens, the space race is increasingly becoming a private-sector enterprise. The development could bode well for the Front Range. Indeed, the Denver-Boulder are ... More >>

Big Head Todd & the Monsters serenade astronauts aboard Shuttle Discovery

​This morning, while most of us in the working world were sound asleep, the dudes from Big Head Todd and the Monsters were at Mission Control in Houston serenading the astronauts aboard the Shuttle Discovery on their last day in space with Big Head's song "Blue Sky."

Tim Tebow Jockey preview hypes Chuck Norris & Sinatra's "Send in the Clowns"? (VIDEOS)

Tim Tebow.​The release last July of Tim Tebow's first photos for Jockey underwear caused multiple small orgasms among the faithful. So imagine the body rockin' on the way now that a print and TV campaign is about to roll out. In advance, Jockey has released a couple of preview videos that are ... More >>

Space Is the Place

Tim Tebow.​The release last July of Tim Tebow's first photos for Jockey underwear caused multiple small orgasms among the faithful. So imagine the body rockin' on the way now that a print and TV campaign is about to roll out. In advance, Jockey has released a couple of preview videos that are ... More >>

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II touches down at Space Day tomorrow at the DMNS

​When it comes to Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II is a straight O.G. Selected by NASA in 1966, a mere eight years after the agency was founded, he got right down to business as the CAPCOM -- the astronaut NASA designates as a mission-control liaison to the astronauts in space -- of Apollo 11, ... More >>

Denver International Airport snow can be caused by planes inadvertently seeding clouds?

Heymsfield.​Why is snow so common at Denver International Airport? A new study led by Andrew Heymsfield, a cloud physicist at Boulder's National Center for Atmospheric Research, and published in the journal Science suggests that planes can inadvertently seed clouds under the right conditions, ... More >>

When NASA's space shuttle program dies tomorrow, a little of the American dream dies with it

Take one last look.​It was former President George W. Bush who enacted the end of NASA's space shuttle program, set for this year, but he did so in order to make way for a new program, which he promised would usher in new technology, bring humans to Mars and give new breath to the dying space ... More >>

Sex on the Moon, Rango and more round out our new release picks for the week of July 12, 2011

​All of these rain-soaked evenings have been keeping us locked indoors lately, and while we've got stockpiles of media to keep us entertained, that doesn't mean we don't want more. Of course, being that it's summertime, the media conglomerates have all teamed up to narrow the spectrum of new r ... More >>

We talk with DMNS Curator of Space Science Dr. Ka Chun Yu about Moon

​The Sci-Fi Film Series is getting down to its final two weeks, and this Wednesday, they'll be showing one of our favorites, Moon, at 7 p.m. at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. The purpose of the series is pretty simple: show off some great science fiction movies and provide an intellectual intro ... More >>

Reader: Comet Elenin scare can make world it didn't destroy a better place

​You've probably noticed by now that Comet Elenin didn't devastate Earth or cause Barack Obama to hide in secret DIA underground tunnels during his Denver visit earlier this week. Now, the space rock has the potential for improving the planet for all of us, says one reader.

A Musical Space Odyssey

​You've probably noticed by now that Comet Elenin didn't devastate Earth or cause Barack Obama to hide in secret DIA underground tunnels during his Denver visit earlier this week. Now, the space rock has the potential for improving the planet for all of us, says one reader.

Extraterrestrial life: White House claim that it has no proof clearly false, says Jeff Peckman

Jeff Peckman.​As conspiracy theorists wonder if the federal government is being forthright about today's nationwide Emergency Alert System test, the White House is under fire from UFOlogists after formally declaring that it possesses no evidence of extraterrestrial life. Jeff Peckman, the man ... More >>

Reader: Fracking critics are taking things too far -- and trying to kill jobs

​Alan Prendergast's latest post about fracking, touching on how polluted water in Wyoming could spell trouble in Colorado, found those opposed to the process facing off against folks who see it as a safe job-producer. Here's a post from a representative of the latter.

Colorado in space: Buzz Aldrin's son on how a spaceport would change the state's economy

​Colorado currently hosts the number two space economy in the country, but the possibility of adding a spaceport on the Front Range could raise our rank while raising the industry's stakes. Whether you plan to see the moon in your lifetime or not, the issue is a hot topic for business and aero ... More >>