Conversation with an Astronomer
I am emailing back and forth with a well renound astronomer who is studying on a remote hill in a remote county in a remote corner of the world (I regret to say I cannot remember which corner exactly) and I hope that he would not mind me sharing some of his beautiful words. He studies the sky and collects data from the northern heavens in connection with NASA, and he told me: It is a very intricate sort of cosmic study from the hieghts i am observing. The universe has been my second home for as far into the past of my life and its function and total mysterious existance. It does, however, become very lonely being situated on the highest elevated hill in the fjords. I

Funny yet informational carl sagen video

Flawed Law of Gravity
In Newton’s Principia, he defines gravity as follows: every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the particles and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Or, if the following is easier to understand see my first image. If you don’t understand what this means, that is ok. Just understand that this is what we perceive to be the LAW of gravity that was developed by Newton after he observed an apple falling to the ground from a tree and wondering why it wouldn’t do the same on the moon. HOWEVER, does this law apply to every known

Promotion by Sir Richard Branson

NASA budget proposal
Did you know that if you spend $200,000 you can book a trip to space with Virgin Galactic? And did you know that if you promise $5 million to Space Adventurer they will give you a guarantee of a future space exploration flight? And furthermore, did you know that both of these companies have raked in upwards of $550 million each and neither has even started flying people out to space yet?! About a week ago Virgin Galactic’s primary investor/the inventor of the technology which makes this venture possible, Richard Branson, took his first flight in the SpaceShipTwo into the cosmos and came back in awe of what he had seen and experienced. The flight is about 2.5 hours, and p