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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
Category: Astronomy
Spotted on the BBC website, under the headline "The truth about Roswell?" There is a lunar quality to the landscape of New Mexico which seems somehow appropriate for a state which is our portal to the heavens. It is here...
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Category: Astronomy
Two questions come up every time the discovery of an extrasolar planet hits the headlines: "Is there life on it?" and "How long would it take to get there?" To the first, we respond, "Dunno", and to the second, "That depends upon how fast you can go."
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Category: Bad Math
Dave Bacon points to a retrospective piece by the American Physical Society, "The Top Ten Physics News Stories of 2008", and he indulges in a little nitpicking. Well, N can play at that game! Look at this summary, under the...
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My mother was looking through the photo albums in the closet, and she found this, which apparently I drew in kindergarten: This must have been after I watched Timothy Ferris's The Creation of the Universe for the Nth time. Looking...
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Polls compiled by the election-statistics website Five to the Thirty-Eight reveal a development surprising to some analysts: the galaxy Messier 101 has swung overwhemingly to Obama, with only a few pockets of McCain support in the outlying regions....
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Poetry time! This is a brief selection from Ted Kooser, a poet famous for sending thousands of handmade Valentines, among other accomplishments. After Years Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, and without a sound the glittering face...
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Category: Astronomy
What we need, and what we're missing.
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Category: Astronomy
Intergalactic communication by variable stars.
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