Apr 04 2009
I’ve been reading, and re-reading Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time but still can’t get my mind around the General Theory of Relativity and it’s (apparently) obvious conclusions about the earth traveling in a straight line through the curved space-time continuum - and how Tibetans on top of a mountain age slower than Boca [...]
Jan 16 2009
I am blessed with clear skies and no light pollution and about once a week can see the International Space Station (ISS) fly overhead. It appears shortly after sunset as a bright star on the western horizon and moves overhead and eastward until it loses the reflected sunlight about 3/4 of the way through its [...]
Jan 10 2009
A Russian ground crew member checks the level of radiation near the Soyuz capsule after its landing.