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Aurora Hunting with ESA

• February 14, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Science, space, Sun, Uncategorized
Tags: Aurora Hunters, ESA, Northern Lights, Norway, Tromso

Slipped through a wormhole from 2267

• March 31, 2017 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Current Affairs, Mars, Science, space, Uncategorized
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, Future of Humanity, Iain Banks, ProximaB, Reusable Rockets, SpaceX, The Culture

Elon Musk & SpaceX’s plans for a city on Mars

• September 26, 2016 • 1 Comment

Posted in Mars, Science, space, Uncategorized, Writing
Tags: Bigelow Aerospace, Blue Origin, Elon Musk, IAC2016, Multiplanetary, SpaceX

“Contact” at the bfi

• November 15, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aliens, Cinema, Film, Science, space
Tags: Adam Rutherford, bfi, Brian Cox, Carl Sagan

My Trip into Space

• October 12, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Film, Previews, Science, space, Uncategorized
Tags: 3D movies, Alfonso Cuorón, David Heyman, Gavity, George Clooney, Hubble Space telescope, International Space Station, London Film Festival, movie premieres, Sandra Bullock, satellites, space debris, space junk, Tim Webber

ET and the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards

• September 22, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aliens, Science, space
Tags: alien abduction, astrophotography, Ben Canales, CETI, David Kingham, Guiding light to the stars, hi hello, Magellanic Clouds, Mark Gee, National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory, SETI, Visions of the Universe

Where is Everybody?

• May 5, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aliens, Cinema, Film, Science, space, Thinking aloud
Tags: alien life, aliens, astrobiology, copernican principle, Drake equation, Fermi Paradox, Jodrell Bank, Kepler, Milan Cirkovic, Royal Society, von neumann probes

Neil Armstrong and the Gamble of Manned Space Exploration

• August 27, 2012 • 1 Comment

Posted in Mars, Science, space, Thinking aloud
Tags: Apollo, Apollo 11, Danny Boyle, game theory, Global Catastrophic Risks, Industrial revolution, Mars, Michael Meacher, Milan Cirkovic, Moon landings, Nick Bostrom, Patrick Moore, Sky at Night, sustainability

A New Earth and the Missions to Mars

• February 4, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Mars, Science, space
Tags: ABSW, astrobiology, astrophysics, Claire Cousins, comets, dark energy, Exomars, exoplanets, extremophiles, Geraint Jones, Giovanna Tinetti, Kepler, Lewis Dartnell, Ofer Lahav, pecha kucha, Peter Grindrod

The Trouble with Neutrinos

• September 25, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Science
Tags: Albert Einstein, CERN, Descartes, Feynman Diagrams, imaginary numbers, michelson-Morley, nonlinear filtering, Opera, relativity, special relativity, speed of light