Category: Problems
This is going to get deep. I heard recently on BBC World Service that the Malaysian space program, itself a weird offshot of a 900 million dollar defense deal Malaysia recently struck with the Russians, is beginning to take shape....
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Posted by Claire L. Evans at 10:34 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Earth
The Natural History Museum of LA County has its share of gems. A whole room of them, in fact. Hundreds of rubies, topaz, opals, obscure formations of marvelous multi-colored rocks and minerals -- even asteroids -- a veritable pageant...
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Posted by Claire L. Evans at 12:52 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Space
In the lucid 1960's, the futurist Stewart Brand began a public campaign for NASA to release a satellite image of the whole Earth taken from space, an image which was at the time only rumored to exist. Brand, forever...
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Posted by Claire L. Evans at 9:33 PM • 4 Comments •