Space

Will Astronauts Need To Augment Lunar Gravity? If So, How?

We might get our first humans living long term on the Moon by the 2020s. How will they cope with lunar gravity, and will it need to be augmented, and if so, how? There is a lot written about artificial gravity to counter health issues in zero gravity. but ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 3 2017 - 6:23am

Odds of Intelligent life on the TRAPPIST-1 planets: NOT Great.

A ccording to new work published recently the TRAPPIST-1 planets could have an atmosphere hospitable to life as we know it. Could that life be intelligent and technological if it is there?  Sadly, that is not likely.    At less than 50 light years away we ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 21 2016 - 4:23pm

Why An Extra Planet Can't Be Hidden Behind The Sun Or Above The South Pole

This is another of my articles to help the many people who come to my science blog saying how scared they are of a planet, which they think is hidden behind the sun and is about to fly past or hit Earth in the near future. What I'm going to describe ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 23 2016 - 7:32am

World Did NOT End On 29th July! AWFUL "Silly Season" Story- Journalists Please Be More Responsible

This is just AWFUL- the worst case of irresponsible journalism I have ever seen. Quite a few on a similar vein today, but including an  article  in the  Telegraph, of all places, and when originally published, the article featured an actual "Count do ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 28 2016 - 2:59pm

Petition: Let's End Dramatized Reporting Of "Doomsday" Stories- The Vulnerable Get Suicidal

I've been writing "doomsday debunking" articles here for a while now, and was surprised to find that some people are terrified by these stories, occasionally suicidal, with  hundreds of comments by scared people on my posts here. To help ra ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 26 2016 - 5:15am

The 2016 Perseids, And The Atmosphere As A Detector

As a long-time meteor observer, I never lose an occasion to watch the peak of good showers. The problem is that similar occasions have become less frequent in the recent times, due to a busier agenda.  In the past few days, however, I was at CERN and could ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 15 2016 - 7:16am

The Mayans May Have Had Their Own Copernicus

The Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data, has been studied for 120 years, with some confusion and accuracy. If you can recall the Mayan calendar Doomsday prophecy, it stated that at the end of a 13th period ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2016 - 6:00pm

Kudos To "The Independent" Newspaper For Debunking Nibiru "Blood Moon" Hoax

Just another short post on Nibiru following on from my recent petition calling for responsible mainstream journalist reporting on "doomsday stories". It's featuring in many mainstream news sites again. Thank goodness one paper, the Independ ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 26 2016 - 2:23pm

Planet Nine Could Doom Our Solar System- If It Exists

The solar system could be thrown into disaster when the sun dies if the mysterious 'Planet Nine' exists, according to Dr. Dimitri Veras in the Department of Physics at University of Warwick, who says he has discovered that the presence of Planet ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2016 - 11:32am

Our Solar System Could Lose One Or More Of Its Gas Giants Billions Of Years In The Future

This is an intriguing paper which has hit the news, see   Planet Nine Could Doom Our Solar System- If It Exists. If our solar system has a planet in a distant orbit, way beyond Neptune, such as the planet X candidates, it could lead to instability of our ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 10 2016 - 4:42pm