It’s a day late because I’ve been celebrating Christmas instead of visiting the blog (and didn’t stage a post in advance because I was making ready for celebrations). Rachelle posted this year’s Christmas Card on her blog, so I’ll just add a musical flourish to round it out (simple 4-part hymn, “The First Noel”, played
A while ago I lucked into some telescopes that were being discarded as trash – the weren’t being kept up, and the owner had moved on to what he termed “professional grade” equipment. His trash was something hopelessly beyond my budget to pick up as a first order product, so I was more than happy
I don’t know if it’s because of junk journalism, junk science, or small-minded scientists being the vocal minority in every article pertaining to the subject (probably while all the real scientists are off science-ing), but the most commonly reported views on the probability/frequency of extraterrestrial life are absurd. I’m not talking in terms of intelligent
Growing up I always marked August 12th on my calendar as the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower ever since I read about it in a magazine (I believe it was National Geographic, but I don’t remember with great certainty). Only once though did I really manage to immerse myself in it, pulling an
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