Happy 40th Anniversary to Voyagers 1 & 2! Almost out of the solar system, traveling faster than anything else man has ever built, soon (in an astronomical sense) you will announce our presence to the rest of the intelligent universe (if it exists). You are our first spacecraft unable to ask, “Are we there yet?” […]
Read more "Topping The Star Charts"Ask a geologist about rocks, and she (or he) might tell you about sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous, then describe their differences based upon how they were formed. The fact is that everything heavier than air was formed in the same way — in the interior of mega-stars, fated to explode. We may be considered stardust, but we […]
Read more "Rock Garden"Betelgeuse is the armpit of Orion, literally. That is to say that it’s name translates to just that, and it is located in what astronomers politely refer to today as Orion’s shoulder. Already the second brightest star in Orion (after Rigel) and the ninth brightest star we can see, it may soon (any day, in […]
Read more "Cosmic Prediction"… baked in the steam of our own planet’s juice
Read more "Face On Mars (Imaginary Ozymandias)"TOURIST TRANSPORT When people come to a poem (through their own free will), they are prepared to step off familiar shores, ferried by the poet gondolier. The vessel must be yare and in keeping with the scene, ideally classical in design – without intruding technology – and with simple lines. The ride […]
Read more "Tourist Transport"Life in interstellar space will have its perks. ASTRONAUTICAL JOYS One day the horizon won’t seem so vast, when we step off the planet of our birth. In space, we’ll look ahead into the past to find a future never seen on Earth. The farther out we look the further back we see to the […]
Read more "Astronautical Joys"“Truth is sought, not granted.”
Read more "Stayed Execution"Dark Energy is the other component that constitutes the universe. It seems to be a product of space itself, and over great distances can act to reverse the effects of gravity, driving objects away from each other. No one knows what Dark Energy is, but based on it’s effects upon distant galaxies, and its even […]
Read more "Lighten Up"Though they’ll claim science is observation,
that’s often tweaked to fit the equation.
Unlit on the stage, the dark juggler must be there, though we just see stars.
Read more "Orbiting A Black Hole"
BARD OF MARS 