Just before the holidays, I had the opportunity to do a little driveway stargazing with a guest from Syria. His hometown is just outside the city of Homs, actually, and if you read or listen to just a little news you know his people are going through a very, very hard time. Getting shot in [...]
All posts tagged solar system
Two Self-Portraits (of planet Earth)
Posted by DougReilly on January 3, 2012
http://punkastronomy.com/2012/01/03/two-self-portraits-of-planet-earth/
Aresforming: The fine art of mucking up a wet planet
If you are a Mars-head like I am, you spend a lot of time thinking about terraforming Ares (the greek name for Mars). That is, making a pretty cold, thin atmosphere into a thicker, balmier one and planting a bunch of palm trees and laying some shuffleboard courts down and then just waiting for the first [...]
Posted by DougReilly on July 10, 2011
http://punkastronomy.com/2011/07/10/aresforming/
Life where there was no life…
The short story: over the past two decades, humanity’s space probes to Mars, Saturn, comets and other planets, as well as our space-based telescopes like Hubble have collected millions of images. Like those boxes of family photos sitting in flea markets across the world, many of those images have never been seen. There are several [...]
Posted by DougReilly on June 8, 2011
http://punkastronomy.com/2011/06/08/life-where-there-was-no-life/
Musings on Space Exploration
I was thinking today about space exploration, and the doldrums we are, and have been, in, ever since the last Apollo astronauts lifted off from the moon last century. Actually, I wasn’t thinking, I was arguing. In my head. With the countless people who dismiss the space program as a pointless waste of money or [...]
Posted by DougReilly on August 25, 2010
http://punkastronomy.com/2010/08/25/musings-on-space-exploration/
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