SPACEGUARD Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. On June 30, 1908, Moscow escaped destruction by three hours and four thousand kilometers—a margin invisibly small by the standards of the universe. On February 12, 1947, another Russian city had a still narrower escape, when the second great meteorite of the twentieth century detonated less than … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present the debut of a new documentary series titled “Mysteries of Deep Space” with episode one: “To the Edge of Time”. “Today, astronomers have opened a stunning new window on the universe. As we peer ever deeper into space, we travel farther back in time”. The science of astronomy … Read more
I love it when reality interferes with crazy. This cool article and podcast comes from Mother Jones. The book that serves as the foundation for this piece is Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. This Fish Crawled Out of the Water…and Into Creationists’ Nightmares Some 375 … Read more