I started reading a book on astrobiology last night (Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology by David Darling). It looks like it is going to be mostly about extra-terrestrial bacteria rather than ET, but perhaps I should brush up on the spacecraft of alien civilizations. Here is a spaceship size comparison chart: Here's a …
Category: Science Fiction
Planet of the Apes musical
For your cultural enrichment: Planet of the Apes, the Musical Grace and Peace
Iapetus
Todays Astronomy Picture of the Day is Iapetus, one of the moons of Saturn: Each of the major moons of the solar system is unique. Iapetus is interesting for the great contrast between its brilliant white surface, which is probably composed of water ice, and the dark black area on the right, which could be …
Turkish Star Wars
My sons recently found "Turkish Star Wars" on the internet. This 1982 film has everything you would want in a movie that has made it to lists of "the worst movies ever made." It has scenes stolen from Star Wars, music stolen from Indiana Jones, and is bad in just about every possible way. It …
Museum of science fiction spaceships
In Senior physics, we just finished a short unit on Einstein's special theory of relativity. One of the implications of special relativity is that nothing can travel faster than light, which travels at 300,000 km/s (186,000 miles per second) in a vacuum. In fact, it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an …
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