CNN reported today that the Kepler telescope has already made a remarkable discovery. A planet with an atmosphere and surface temperatures near 4000F spinning around its sun in 2.2 days with one side always facing towards its star. Now that has to be one heck of a big planet because what I find incredible about [...]
CNN reports today about NASA’s mid-life crisis and the agency having lost its way. In truth I feel that the lack of vision is not characteristic of a failure on NASA’s part to develop strategic policy but rather a lack of vision on the part of America’s top administration to recognize the value such contribution [...]
So here is a scary thought: Asteroid 2007 TU24 was discovered on October 11, 2007 and it was only determined on January 24th, 2008 to not be a threat. What is the problem here? The closest approach to Earth of this object was calculated to be just 5 days later.
Now I don’t know about you [...]
So yesterday I get invited to participate on a talk show called “The 2nd Question” as one of the panelists (that is me as Phelan Corrimal 2nd from the right). And the show starts off with their standard question — if you where an element what element would you be. Now – if you watched the video [...]
So here I am, watching a copy of The Blue Planet: Sea of Life, and I’m on disk 3 with the program on the seasonal seas. After having gone through the first 2 DVDs I’m starting to wonder whether life is contingent on circulatory systems. Here is where I’m going with this. The earth’s tilt [...]
The lastest news out of NASA is the revelation of a massive impact crater on Mars which possibly accounts for the differences in geological appearance between the northern and southern hemispheres. One suggestion is that such a collision occurred roughly 3.9 Billion years ago. However even a cursory glace at our own world shows all kinds [...]