Space

Why Everyone Should LOVE a Space Force. Air Force Space Command Promoted?

S pace contains a wealth of mineral resources so abundant that it would make money as we now think of it obsolete.  We rely on space borne assets for  very ordinary every day things and will come to rely on them even more. The common sense of this, unlike ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 18 2018 - 1:42pm

Space Force, A Service Of Warrior Geeks. An Opinion On Uniforms and Insignia with Practical Justifications.

E very Branch of the service has ranks and uniforms which reflect their  history, mission, and culture. A potential space force would not be any different in this regard.  Consider the lineage it would have being mainly influenced by the US Air Force, the ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 21 2018 - 10:19pm

Alien Life Vs Earthly Assumptions: The Fermi Paradox Stands Firm.

A ssuming that alien life has to be like life on Earth is the safest way to scientifically search for evidence of it.  A recent paper on the arXiv by a research team from Oxford is likely to cause headaches for SETI.  In short it shouldn't since the ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 27 2018 - 2:08am

RCW 38 Captured By The Very Large Telescope

By using infrared wavelengths, the HAWK-I infrared imager mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile was able to capture this image of the star cluster RCW 38. RCW 38 is over 5,00 light years away (look toward the constellation Vela) and is ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2018 - 8:55am

Milky Way Galaxy 1- 0 Sausage Galaxy

A cosmic crash 8 billion to 10 billion years ago was a defining event in the early history of the Milky Way and reshaped the structure of our galaxy. The Sausage Galaxy lost and the Milky Way won, fashioning both its inner bulge and its outer halo. The wre ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2018 - 2:05pm

Maybe The Oumuamua Asteroid Is Really A Comet

The asteroid Oumuamua ("scout from the distant past" in Hawaiian) was discovered on October 19, 2017 by astronomers at thr Pan-STARRS1 survey when it came close to Earth's orbit, within the orbit of Mercury, about a month after its closest a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2018 - 9:21am

Jupiter’s New Moons? Not Really. Moons A Common Sense Definition.

W ith the discovery of a dozen new tiny moons  of Jupiter that planet now has upwards of 79 moons. Are all-natural satellites of a planet moons?  Not really, not unless they are similar to our Moon in objective physical properties.   Many of these moons a ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 18 2018 - 6:33am

3.5 Billion Years Ago, Life Could Have Developed On The Moon Instead

The moon is just a big rock in Earth's orbit now but things could have gone a lot differently in the distant past. In fact, there may have been two early windows of habitability for Luna. In a new paper, astrobiologists say conditions on the lunar sur ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2018 - 2:33pm

Exoplanets Where Life Could Develop As It Did On Earth

Though evidence to-date shows we are the first advanced species, at least in our cosmic neighborhood, that doesn't mean it can't happen elsewhere. It is absolutely likely, because according to one estimate there are as many as 700 million trillio ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2018 - 8:05am

These Hotspots Can Last For Millions Of Years

You may have trouble finding a hotspot in that store you are visiting, but there is one place they are persistent: inside neutron stars. A new study shows that instabilities can create intense magnetic hot spots that survive for millions of years, even aft ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2018 - 6:33am