Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Yes, “on” it is the correct preposition. It’s not the continent I’m talking about; it is the Jupiter’s moon with the same name. Why so? Because NASA just got extra-money for its 2016 budget (of $18.5 billion dollars, i.e. half…
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…which is maybe not a myth after all. When I have written some time ago about Nemesis, or the Death Star, in fiction and in conspiracy theories, I have briefly mentioned Planet X. Historically, this name has been given to two…
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That things don’t last forever, we all know it. After all, we witness cycles of life and death every day. But there are things we are used to think as eternal – like stars and galaxies – even though we’re…
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2014 will be a year to remember for space missions. No matter what achievements are awaiting us in the future (hopefully plenty), the last 12 months have seen something that will remain in history. I’m going to mention here only few…
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When thinking about VR (Virtual Reality) a lot of things come to mind – to me, videogames are the first, followed by other, more scientific, applications. What I have recently discovered, instead, is that NASA has been quite active in…
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The usual update about my latest published articles on other blogs/magazines – these ones on from Serious Wonder. This time I have only included the ones on space and physics, leaving science and SF for another post. WILL WE EVER WALK…
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If there is a space object I have always found incredibly beautiful is the star cluster of the Pleiades – alternatively called M45, or “The Seven Sisters”- immediately recognisable for the hot blue, luminous stars immersed in a nebula and visible…
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If there is something difficult to realise is how vast space is. No matter how hard we try, as humans we lack mental categories to figure it out. Another difficult thing is obviously to map it – and we do…
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This Sunday Earthians will witness something truly unique, estimated to happen maybe once every million years: a comet the size of a small mountain will fly by Mars, becoming the first comet to have ever come so close to Earth in recorded history….
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Astrophysics has to make sense, especially in a SF book. When designing your fictional worlds you need to make sure things can survive on their own, short of creating an alternate physical universe – and I won’t even start imagining how difficult…
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