Tim Lambert exposes another one of Tim Blair’s articles. How can Blair be one of Australia’s top bloggers (in terms of traffic)? Just read some comments at Blair’s – they’re horrible excercises in outrage based on completely false information. The article ultimately linked to that’s supposed to be the source of all this knowledge doesn’t [...]
Archive for the ‘Astronomy’ Category
Tim on Tim
Posted in Astronomy, Demotivation, Journalism, Science, idiocracy, tagged solar, Tim Lambert, Tim Blair, Al Gore on Sunday 2009.06.07 | Leave a Comment »
Slide Into Idiocracy
Posted in Astronomy, Climate, Science, Uncategorized, tagged Energy, greenhouse effect, marohasy on Sunday 2008.08.17 | 3 Comments »
“On the internet, everybody is an expert.” “Knowledge seems to correlate inversely with confidence.” And many other one-liners proven true in a godawful blogpost. Jennifer Marohasy has been a policy advisor for the Australian government, a prominent think tank member and an invited person to talk at many places. And here she attempts to refute [...]
Interstellar Travel Destinations
Posted in Astronomy, Motivation, Science, Uncategorized, tagged exoplanet, interstellar on Sunday 2008.05.18 | Leave a Comment »
Nowadays new exoplanets are found every week. Exoplanet blog systemic has an article from February about possible Earth-like planets around Alpha Centauri B.
What’s remarkable is the easiness with which they could be detected if some resources are spent. And if a planet like that exist, it’s one of the top destinations for future interstellar probes [...]
Worlds Within The Margin
Posted in Astronomy, Science, tagged astrobiology, drake equation, extrasolar planets, milky way, solar system, stability, sun like on Monday 2008.02.18 | Leave a Comment »
Our solar system is only marginally stable, and also “filled to the brim” with planets. If you added another planet, the system would eject planets until it reached stability. During the disk accretion and the planetary embryo collisions, small variations determined the characteristics of the system, for example how many rocky planets would result from [...]
Asteroid Passes Near Earth
Posted in Astronomy, Motivation, tagged 2007 TU24, asteroids on Thursday 2008.01.24 | Leave a Comment »
In the end of January, a 100 m class asteroid called 2007 TU24 will pass near earth, somewhat beyond moon’s distance. It’s not visible with the naked eye, but only with reasonable size amateur telescopes. JPL has more.
This was only detected in November 2007. If some other big one was headed towards earth one day, it’s possible there wouldn’t be much time for warning…
Here is [...]
Merry Christmas to the Readers
Posted in Astronomy, Motivation, Science, Spacecraft, Uncategorized, tagged christmas, cutaways, flight international, foton, soyuz, venera, venus, yes2 on Friday 2007.12.21 | Leave a Comment »
I can link you some nice images:
Nicolas Pillet’s photo gallery of Soyuz / Foton-M3 & YES2. An example.
Don P. Mitchell’s restored Venus photos from Soviet Venera probe material. An example.
And finally, for the technology fetishists like me, Flight International’s generous offer of past cutaway drawings, space systems section. Or have a look at this cutie from the engine cutaways [...]
Tvashtar, Io, Jupiter
Posted in Astronomy, Science, Uncategorized, tagged Io, Jupiter, NASA, New Horizons, Tvashtar, Volcano on Monday 2007.12.10 | Leave a Comment »
Hello, had some time with not so many posts. I’ll write more stuff soon, including something that is slightly offtopic for a spaceflight blog.
But in the mean time, the newest Carnival of Space had a nice link to a fine blog which had a great picture (beware it’s full size on the front page) that New Horizons snapped of Io in front of Jupiter. Also shows the glow of the Volcano Tvashtar in the [...]
