Category Archives: Science

Learning How to Recover the First Stage of a Falcon 9

Posted on October 16, 2013 by

From SpaceX, regarding the September 29 launch of an upgraded Falcon 9 from Vandenberg AFB in California: Though not a primary mission objective, SpaceX was also able to initiate two engine relights on the first stage. For the first restart … Continue reading →

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Well Done, Grasshopper

Posted on October 14, 2013 by

From SpaceX: On Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744m altitude. The view above is taken from a single camera hexacopter, getting closer to the stage than in any previous flight. Grasshopper is a … Continue reading →

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The Nearest Stars

Posted on October 2, 2013 by

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Falcon 9-R

Posted on October 1, 2013 by

The first demonstration launch of the new version of the Falcon 9, referred to as either the Falcon 9 v.1.1 or the Falcon 9-R launched successfully from Vandenberg AFB on Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 9:00 AM PDT. A report … Continue reading →

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Europa

Posted on September 22, 2013 by

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Yay for Modern Medicine!

Posted on September 20, 2013 by

Something that I don’t understand is the reluctance some people to use modern medicine. I’ve just been reading the biography, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 and for nine months he refused to … Continue reading →

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Getting Quoted

Posted on September 19, 2013 by

Once again I was asked about a topic in the news and then found myself quoted extensively in the resulting article: DOES THIS BIBLE VERSE CITED BY BILL NYE AND BILL MAHER REALLY PROVE THAT ‘RELIGION IS THE ENEMY OF … Continue reading →

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Extraterrestrial Religion

Posted on September 18, 2013 by

The only people who think that religion will die with the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence are the nonreligious. The actual surveys of religious believers that have been made find that believers are undisturbed by the concept. They don’t see it … Continue reading →

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Heisenberg’s Uncertainty

Posted on September 16, 2013 by

The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle states that for a given subatomic particle, one may know its location or one may know its velocity, but one cannot know both at the same time. While this may seem ridiculous on a macroscopic level … Continue reading →

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Warp Drive Update

Posted on August 26, 2013 by

Below is a video from the third day of this past week’s Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress. Dr. White of NASA updated the progress of his experiments (at the NASA Houston space center) to create a tiny warp bubble (yes, like … Continue reading →

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