Space – Going Postal

Space Travel

25th October 2018 Ross 0

For the first time in decades there is no rocket certified for human spaceflight available anywhere on planet Earth. To make things a little more interesting the astronauts on the ISS have only a Soyuz [more…]

Space Travel

11th October 2018 Ross 0

It was the early evening of January 27th 1967. Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been in the Apollo capsule for six and a half hours conducting a full scale dress rehearsal of [more…]

Space Travel

4th October 2018 Ross 0

It is the 7th May 1945 and on this spring morning in the Bavarian mountains, a few days after the death of Hitler, the soldiers of the 44th infantry division that are manning a checkpoint [more…]

Space Travel

27th September 2018 Ross 0

There are lots of technical problems in designing a liquid fuelled rocket; such as how do you light it, relight it, how do you stop combustion instability shaking the rocket to pieces, how do you [more…]

Space Travel

13th September 2018 Ross 0

There are lots of weird and wonderful schemes for powering spacecraft, but in practice only three classes of engine have been built today that could realistically power a spacecraft in the next few decades. (aside: [more…]

What a load of Bolides!

8th September 2018 Going Postal 0

The amount of times I see people posting here – “World ending asteroid hit us please now the world is too crazy!” Well I am here to bring a mild warning, many people understand what [more…]

Space Travel

30th August 2018 Ross 0

For those of us interested in space travel however we live in interesting times; as there is probably more development going on in the world today than at any time since NASA was spending an [more…]

Are We living in a Simulated Universe?

12th May 2018 Going Postal 0

Firstly to have any understanding of this theory, one must admit the possibility of our universe existing within a Multiverse. “A multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including our universe) [more…]

The Planets, Our Sun

15th March 2018 Philthetestmanager 0

The picture below gives an idea of the size of our sun, but see later when we compare the size of our sun to other stars. The Prologue: I would like to give a h/t [more…]

Winnie the Pooh Gets Diversity Trained

28th August 2018 0

Pooh rounded up all the animals from the various places they had hidden themselves in Hundred Acre Wood, after they had heard about his latest brainwave. Last time he had talked them into a training [more...]
Euclid and the origin of the accelerating universe

1st April 2016 0

Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion [more...]
Elijah – the Great Prophet who Failed

24th June 2018 0

This article was originally going to be about Daniel (a GPer request) or Isaiah (for reasons which will become apparent when I prepare an article on him). Daniel will need to be a two parter [more...]
Motor Torpedo Boat 102

30th April 2018 0

Back in the mid 1970s we had a boat at Brundall marina on the Norfolk Broads. It was a standard marina, nothing fancy, but functional. I was around seven or eight, and before I was [more...]
Postcard From Coniston Water

19th April 2018 0

One of the forty things to do when you’ve been married for forty years is to take a visit to Coniston. Although it is only about a 45 minute drive from my house neither Mrs. [more...]