There is so much controversy over Daylight Saving Time — who benefits?, does it really save energy?, is it worth the hassle? – that maybe we should dump it altogether in favor of “Mecca Time.” At least that is what some Muslim scientists meeting in Qatar have called for — nothing less than the worldwide […]
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If Daylight Saving Time wasn’t bad enough…
Published April 21st, 2008 in Bizarre, Earth, Human World and Science. 3 CommentsI saw another “UFO”, maybe two
Published April 14th, 2008 in Bizarre, Space, atmospheric events and Science. 5 CommentsI saw another UFO Saturday night. Once again in the car headed west, I spied a bright starlike object in the reddish post-sunset sky, low to the mountains. It was reminiscent of Venus as it appears deep in the sunset glow, but of course Venus is not in that part of the sky at sunset […]
While most of us slept on the morning of March 19, hours before the death of famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke was announced, a shot rang out in the Universe the likes of which are unknown in human history. By a preliminary analysis, this object was visible to the unaided human eye in […]
What’s behind all this, an alien conspiracy? Is the government hiding something from us? Well, I think we all know what is going on. And if you don’t know, you need to get informed. For anyone who has observed the skies for more than a few years, it is obvious that stars are disappearing. And […]
Sundogs bite as UFOs
Published January 20th, 2008 in Bizarre, Photos, Space, atmospheric events and Science. 17 CommentsLet me start by saying that I do not know what most people of north central Texas saw and reported as a UFO last week. If the published reports are accurate — then what they saw was very unusual at least, and if true, then we cannot rule out an extraterrestrial origin. However, I […]
Earth passed the December solstice more than a week ago, but another milestone comes tomorrow (Jan. 2). It’s not one you would normally notice, nor one that you would logically expect. As the Earth orbits the sun, its distance varies by up to 3 million miles. Tomorrow, earth is at perihelion, or its closest point […]
Astronomy started out as a purely visual science, but with today’s electronics and techniques, the visually impaired can enjoy and contribute. But that really isn’t what I am referring to as “listening to astronomy” here. It used to be that you to take classes, or else had to be in the right place at the […]
Hot pink flying saucers!
Published December 3rd, 2007 in Bizarre, Photos, Climate, atmospheric events and Science. 6 CommentsHot pink flying saucers, enormous six-legged pigs, the Michelin Man, the Grim Reaper — there are strange sights to be seen in clouds!!
I saw a UFO a week or so ago, and to this day I am not sure what it was. It was late afternoon, right at or just shortly before sunset. In the western sky just above the mountains (as seen from Denver) there was a tiny, bright pinpoint of light. [The photo here is […]
Student space project a limited success
Published November 8th, 2007 in Space and Science. 0 CommentsBack in May I mentioned a program called YES2 involving some early orbital experimentation with the concept of a “space cable.”
YES2 was to unroll a 30 km (about 19 mile) long cable from an orbiting Russian spacecraft (Foton-M3). The intent was that the dangling probe (called Fotino) would skim the Earth’s upper atmosphere, then […]