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Spacetime Report

Posted by Bill Simmon on Thu, Feb 4, 2010

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I’m super busy this semester, hence the intermittent posting (here and at my own blog), but these out-of-this-world links keep piling up anyway. Here are a few to releave the pressure in my Firefox tabs… Dear Media, Hello. It’s me, Science. (see also Dear Homeopathy and Dear Astrology)  Hubble images a Klingon Bird of Prey wicked cool [...]

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Spacetime Report

Posted by Bill Simmon on Mon, Jan 11, 2010

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First up in the Spacetime continuum… *Look at this fucking picture of the surface of Mars. *Once every billion years or so, heat deep with the Saturnian moon of Enceladus causes ice volcanoes to erupt like crazy. It turns out this once-in-a-billion-years event is happening right now as Cassini watches. *Speaking of volcanos, the first “Earth like” (by [...]

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Spacetime Report

Posted by Bill Simmon on Mon, Jan 4, 2010

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Unfortunately, the new year has produced precious little in the way of interesting cosmological tidbits so far. I did scrounge up the link below, which is a little 2010 science preview, but in the meantime I’ll take the opportunity to recommend a BBC series that occasionally runs on Discovery’s Science Channel here in the states. [...]

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Spacetime Report

Posted by Bill Simmon on Mon, Dec 28, 2009

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Welcome to the last Spacetime Report of 2009. As you all know, 2010 is the year we make contact. So we have that to look forward to… *Look at this image: This is a photograph of Saturn’s moon, Titan (taken by the Cassini Saturn probe). The bright spot up top is a reflection off of a mammoth [...]

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10 Best SF Films of the Decade

Posted by Bill Simmon on Mon, Dec 21, 2009

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Man, people on the interwebz are crazy about their top ten lists, especially when years, decades and centuries end. I’d just like to remind everyone reading that decades (that is, periods of ten years) are ending all the time. For example, the decade that began at 2:50 P.M. on December 21, 1999 just ended a [...]

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