Time Odyssey

A journey into the weird.

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Exoplanets

Monday, August 10th, 2009
Astronomy, Astrophysics | No Comments »

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 [...]

Time Odyssey Experiment

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Astrophysics, Just plain weird, Physics | No Comments »

Is time travel possible? I don’t know but am about to try an experiment which is very low tech but should allow for anyone reading this blog in the future to show whether time travel really possible or not. The experiment will essentially go like this
Approximately every 3 months (give or take) I will publish [...]

Attention Aliens: QwikieMart Open 7/24

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Astrophysics | No Comments »

Okay THIS is just plain weird. Doritos sending advertisements out into space. I don’t know about you but I get the feeling that rampant consumerism is not exactly going to be the hallmark of an advanced civilization. Think Ferengis on Start Trek.
Regardless – I didn’t know that ESA had a series of high powered radar stations up [...]