Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
If you accept the idea that everyone/everything NOT living on planet Earth for all or most of their lives is a spacenoid (questionable as it might be, and the discussion would be long indeed…) we have a few of us…
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If you missed this news, read it again: it’s not a scam and it’s impressive in its own right. We’re going to have another “moon” (or moons, intended as satellites) out there, and it is going to address, and possibly…
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In the latest weeks I couldn’t do my usual science &space round-ups, so here it is, with some recent and less recent, but still worth reading, news. The new probe now heading to the Sun and when it comes from….
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Are you excited? You should. There is a total lunar eclipse coming up just in two weeks -on July 27, to be precise – which is going to be the longest of the century and the first central lunar eclipse…
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And this is it. On Friday 15 September, after 20 years in space, 13 of which spent in Saturn’s system, Cassini plunged into the gas giant’s atmosphere. NASA made this choice to prevented it crashing into and contaminating the moons…
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As usual, some interesting news from space and technology (yes, I know, it’s difficult to remain positive when we look at the news. Keep faith, people). Links included if you want more. Complex chemistry in Saturn’s moon Titan’s atmosphere –…
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Now that I’m deep down in Artemis (I’ve mentioned it in another post) I realised that whenever I read a book set in one of the Solar System’s celestial bodies I regularly check the places mentioned in the novels on…
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Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by…
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(This is the English version of the article “Il Villaggio Lunare parlerà “europeo”? [Will the Moon Village speak “European”?] by Fausto Mescolini, first published in Italian on Il Tredicesimo Cavaliere, a blog that has already been featured a few times on The Earthian Hivemind….
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In the day of the Summer Solstice – the longest day of the year – I thought appropriate talking about the famous peaks of eternal light, which recently became popular (again). The expression “peak of eternal light” (that is, a…
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