Some philosophical thoughts on the variability of the kilogram.
Category Archives: General Science
How Many Continents Are There?
This is a lot like the Pluto brouhaha.
I Wonder If This Will Apply To Deep Space Missions?
Why the return trip seems shorter.
[Update a few minutes later]
Speaking of deep-space missions (not that it’s likely to ever fly any, or fly at all), Chris Bergin has a pretty extensive write-up on the Senate Launch System.
A Cubical Planet
What would it be like to walk around on one?
How People In Scientific Academia
How Would Other Planets Look?
…if they were the same distance from earth as the moon?
Jupiter is pretty scary. Of course, in the case of the gas giants, to first order, we’d be orbiting them, not them orbiting us.
The World’s Ugliest Animals
This is more of a Friday post, but what the hell.
[Via Debbie Witt, collector of odd links]
Rewriting The Textbooks
…in science. As I’ve been writing for years, science is a process, not a compendium.
Thoughts On The Solar System
…and involuntary ant flights.
I Wish Congress Wouldn’t Make NASA Waste So Much Money
So they could afford to do things more like this.
It’s always a little unnerving to me to see them fly through the ring plane. It makes you realize that as striking they are in appearance, the mass density is very slight, and there’s plenty of open space in there. Not that they couldn’t have had a collision, but they haven’t.
OK, I know, even if they weren’t being forced to waste money, they’d still have trouble getting more funding for more planetary missions.