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Captain Kirk is finally launching into space. Wait, that doesn’t sound right. No, it’s actually William Shatner, the actor who played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek TV series and the first set of movies, who is launching to the stars at the ripe young age of 90. What an amazing culmination of a…
Don’t Worry – You’ll Still be Able to Text from the Moon!
Don’t think we’re serious about colonizing the moon? Well, things just became a little bit more hardcore. The European Space Agency (ESA) are designing a satellite constellation to orbit the moon, offering navigation and telecommunication services to lunar visitors by 2030. You can read more about it here. I’ve mentioned in my previous blog articles…
Rats! A New Kind of Border Patrol Agent.
Step aside, Fido. There’s a new animal in town: the African pouched rat. These special trainees are taught how to differentiate different scents and signal when they find one they need to shout about, such as pangolin scales, rhino horn, elephant tusk, and African blackwood–all popular with smugglers. These rats have an amazing sense of…
Looking Back in Time–Literally
There is a lot media coverage about the new James Webb space telescope lately, and how awesome it will be if they can successfully launch it into space. I’m sure no one will be surprised to hear that I am looking forward to a fully functioning telescope situated in a “Lagrange point”, which is a…
Whatever Happened to Flying Cars?
In today’s news you’ll read a lot about electric cars and how they are saving our environment from the byproducts of fossil fuel processing. Unfortunately, this is not quite as cut and dry as it may sound. The reality of it is that the process to manufacture the batteries required to operate electric cars is…
