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New fodder for space opera librettists
Hey, authors, here’s some new inspiration for you. Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to create the most revealing – and colorful – images of the Universe ever created. The Ultraviolet...
View ArticleSickening
The claim about the current influx of mothers and children to the US from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador which infuriates me the most is the one which says they’re bringing diseases into this...
View ArticleEbola on the loose
The first time I ever heard of the hemorrhagic virus named Ebola was in the early 1990s. I remember reading The Hot Zone when it was published in 1994 and thinking “this thing is terrifying.” Well,...
View ArticleBeing anti-everything is stupid
Once the news came that at least one of the Americans infected with the Ebola virus was going to be brought to Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital for treatment, just like clockwork Twitter went off in...
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When Earthlings strike comets!
#CometWatch 14 August. Don’t you just love how different #67P looks from different angles? http://t.co/gyTSSTSNdF pic.twitter.com/2TS6kmaCer — ESA Rosetta Mission (@ESA_Rosetta) August 15, 2014 That’s...
View ArticleEbola patients released
News flash: Two American Ebola patients released from Atlanta hospital. Take that, you miserable cowardly crowds who were screeching that they should be kept from returning to their home country. “Let...
View ArticleDumb and dumber
Dear Bayer Back and Body: Did you design your current commercial to imply the average male airline passenger is a completely unintelligent idiot, or was that just happenstance? I mean, here’s a guy who...
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Land of the brave?
Not hardly. Navarro College, a two-year college about 60 miles from Dallas, sent out rejection letters to some applicants from Nigeria because the country had a few Ebola cases. A woman boarded a...
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Ebola worries here?
We had two different doctor’s appointments today at two different locations, although both were at Straub Hospital offices. Each of them had signs posted at the sign-in desks asking patients to inform...
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Science! Spacecraft! Comets!
Is everyone aware that the European Space Agency has a spacecraft orbiting a comet at the moment? And that the day after tomorrow the Agency is going to try to land a robot on one of the larger chunks...
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Rosetta and Philae
That’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with one of lander Philae’s feet at the lower center. Because it bounced twice after its initial landing, Philae is not in the middle of a nice flat surface,...
View ArticleTed and Marco’s Scientific Adventure
So is the sky gonna fall, is Texas gonna sink, and are Florida’s Everglades gonna dry up now that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio each chairs a Senate subcommittee with responsibility for science? Cruz has...
View ArticleIf shame works, good
Attention! You parents who think you and a pneumatic blonde who was once a Playboy Playmate of the year are smarter than the medical community which came up with the measles and polio and whooping...
View ArticleIt’s getting hotter
Hmm. For years the climate change deniers have had pet scientists willing to say that the consensus among fellow practitioners was wrong: the observable changes in climate had nothing to do with...
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Spots in Space!
There’s a mystery out there. Ceres is a dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter, the biggest object in the asteroid belt at 950km in diameter. Two bright spots have appeared in a 92km-wide crater on its...
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Jump!
Well, not really. More like “Get away, get away!” SpaceX, the private company designing rockets and capsules to provide passenger and freight service to NASA and presumably anyone else who wants to...
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Space spots closeup
Back in March I posted a picture of Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It had bright spots which were puzzling NASA. Well, new pictures have come back from the probe...
View ArticleA Man, A Plan, A Canal—Panama
Have you heard of EV Nautilus, an exploration vessel run by the Ocean Exploration Trust under the direction of Titanic and Bismarck discoverer Dr. Robert Ballard? An old college acquaintance of mine is...
View ArticlePluto has moons?
Evidently so, and they do odd things. The erratic behavior of Pluto’s moons is the fault of the dynamically shifting gravitational field created by Pluto and Charon. For many years it was thought that...
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