Philip K Dick vs Heinlein
Interestingly Philip K Dick managed to predict the future fairly well despite being the wacky one. Heinlein didn’t do quite so well…
Day: September 1, 2006
How Big is the Universe and what does it look like?
There are loads of ways of visualising the universe – through radiation, dark matter, gravitational fields, distribution of visible light etc. And then there are the times as which the universe is visualised – at the beginning, as it grows, now and projected into the future. String theory makes for even more different ways of Read more about How Big is the Universe and what does it look like?[…]
Lockheed Martin to build landers
NASA has finally awarded the contract to build the new manned lander craft that will take people back to the moon in 2020 and hopefully to Mars. They are going back to the system that runs Arianne and Soyuz and the old NASA Apollo rockets: ie. a tiny capsule balanced on top of a huge Read more about Lockheed Martin to build landers[…]