Monthly Archives: June 2008

Breaking Strain Analysed

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Adam

Arthur C. Clarke wrote some absolutely classic space-travel stories in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which were amongst the first to give a “real life” account of space-travel and its challenges. Some were novels – “Prelude to Space“, “Islands … Continue reading →

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300+ Exoplanets…

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Adam

A milestone was crossed, with relatively little fan-fare, just today… there’s now, officially, over 300 exoplanets Extra-Solar Planets Catalog… 303 Known Exoplanets …and there’s five new Super-Earths – exoplanets over Earth’s mass. None have known radii so we’ve no idea … Continue reading →

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Thank God for Evolution?

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Adam

Christianity is many things to many people – something I learnt the hard way after becoming a Christian, then a fundamentalist, a liberal, an agnostic/atheist and finally a believer in something a bit broader than the easy categories I used … Continue reading →

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The New Milky Way

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Adam

The latest view of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, can be found at the Spitzer Infra-Red Space Telescope’s newspages here… The New Galaxy …seems we’re now officially a few galactic arms short – two arms based on old hydrogen-based maps … Continue reading →

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