Why UFOs Suddenly Big Deal? Something to do with “ET Phone Home”?
Kids probably get it, even if we don’t. Honey, I Shrunk the (Kids, Whoops) Universe! This is a previous post that I introduce just to show how a (my) warped sense of cosmological history works, the better to understand the very complicated tale I weave below. Telescopes such as the James Webb, the European Euclid […]
Do Aliens Use Bitcoin?
As you will see below, my formative years were spent dissipating while reading tomes like The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Europa Will Be Bulldozed to Make Way for the Next Cosmic Superhighway! We’re just sending the Europa Clipper to Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. Clipper is an apt name coz there’s apparently a […]
Is the human epic of space conquest just the biggest fraud of all?
Space is big right? What if all those books, movies and stories are just so much bunkum anyway? At best epics that could never be. Surely not??? No Thrust? No Trust! I guess you could have missed seeing the latest failure of the NASA/Boeing launch to the ISS. This time it was the thrusters, but […]
THE HOTEL AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Would Saudi Arabia’s new city of Neom be more admired on Earth if it could be seen from Proxima Centauri? The Line in the Sand No doubt you have read about the new city of Neom being built by Saudi Arabia as its new-world city. It will be 170 kilometers long and incorporate skyscrapers and architectural monuments. Neom’s […]
Honey, I Shrunk the (Kids, Whoops) Universe!
We humans made a huge mistake in our design for exploring the universe – we are looking through the wrong end of the telescopes! Eye in the Sky I’m sure you have heard heaps about the James Webb Telescope – definitely a technological breakthrough and a gigantic step towards understanding the known universe a bit better. Now […]
“The 3 Body Problem”: China’s Poisoned Chalice?
Where’s the Universe headed? Downhill, according to “The 3 Body Problem”. Not a Warm Body So maybe you are aware of the hot sci-fi movie on Netflix “The 3 Body Problem” (T3BP)? The first Chinese sci-fi film to win a famous global prize for sci-fi stories. Yep, it’s pretty good, probably one of the best […]
Does Gravity Cause Transgender Transitions?
Gravity is not a constant. What icon falls next? Weighty Matters Whadya know? New cutting-edge research seems to show conclusively that gravity doesn’t work like it’s supposed to. To wit, it is stronger at lower-than-average accelerations. Wow! That changes everything! For the skinny see this account. I can’t imagine a deeper revolution in physics, even though […]
The James Webb Telescope – The Bland Leading the Blind?
The JWT, no matter how technologically sophisticated and amazing it is, is showing only a tiny fraction of what it could. Shouldn’t it show us GPS-like maps and graphic pictures of travel directions? Here is my vision of the new super-duper images from, the (AI?) enhanced super-telescope. Dazzle Without the Frazzle! The JWT (James Webb […]
Did the James Webb Telescope Just Show Us the Universe Neighboring Our’s?
Has the James Webb Telescope (JWT) just revealed a totally new universe which we can now physically see? Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall? The JWT was always going to be interesting because it can see so much that we’ve never seen. One of the things we wanted to see was the edges of our universe. Current […]
Do Aliens Evolve Backwards?
When/if we see aliens, they would have evolved from where they were when we first saw them. But could they have evolved backwards? There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills The James Webb telescope is getting into its stride. Now its discovered active atmospheres on exoplanets. The telescope has actually made an inventory of the chemicals in […]