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Tag Archives: Science
Some Cool Facts About Water
In geology class, we just recently covered streams, in which the prof. included some interesting information about the “global hydrologic budget”. While I’ve long been acquainted with the “about 70% of the Earth is covered in water” bit, some of … Continue reading
Interstellar drive in 2008? Afraid not.
I started reading The Mote in God’s Eye today, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The actual plot of the book starts off in the year 3016AD, so there’s a Chronology in the front of the book, outlining some of … Continue reading
Is space colonization really feasible?
Being a fan of science fiction, I’ve always thought the idea of space colonization – sending off colony ships to inhabit new worlds – was a pretty neat idea. How many science fiction books have I read where the human … Continue reading
Ostriches, squirrels, and crocodiles, oh my!
While reading my feeds this morning, I ended up coming across 3 different animal-related stories that I thought were worth sharing. First, I want you to imagine an ostrich. Got it? Alright, now, imagine that it is roughly 16 feet … Continue reading
Access to space: Catastrophic Failure
I just started looking for different space mission types, to try and come up with a title for something new I’m going to be doing here*. The first thing I googled was simply “space mission types”. The top result was … Continue reading
Clash of science and religion
I stayed behind yesterday afternoon after my scientific reasoning class ended, to talk with the professor for a few. Before the class had ended, he’d spent 5 minutes or so explaining why all of the articles we’ve analyzed thus far … Continue reading
The end of the universe, part 2
Last night I was pondering about what the ‘end’ of the universe would look like. By ‘end’, I don’t mean the destruction or disappearance of the universe; I mean instead, what the endpoint of it would look like. If you … Continue reading
The end of the universe – what’s there?
Sitting here browsing various blogs, something just popped into my head: what’s the end of the universe like? Does it even exist? Let’s say in theory, we had a spacecraft that could move fast enough and far enough to reach … Continue reading
Why System 13?
It occurred to me recently that I’ve not really explained why my blog is entitled System 13. Here’s the answer: When I created my first blog at WordPress.com, I used netJosh as the title for a while, but I didn’t … Continue reading
20 things you didn’t know about…. death
20 things you didn’t know about…. death.