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Bye Bye Mission to Mars

11 Feb

Bye Bye Mission to Mars

As a space junkie, it deeply saddens me to report that NASA is cutting its mission to Mars, as well as the exploration of other planets due to budget cuts. NASA’s budget is already tight and they went just a tad overboard on the new space telescope –the James Webb Space Telescope which will be 100x more powerful than the Hubble Telescope.  Two scientists revealed two joint missions with Europe to explore Mars in 2016 and 2018 were nixed.

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Sooo the Doomsday Clock is 1 Minute Closer to the End of the World

11 Jan

Sooo the Doomsday Clock is 1 Minute Closer to the End of the World

Last night the folks at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago moved the Doomsday Clock one minute closer to midnight, which means we are that much closer to the end of the world. (more…)

Creating a Time Cloak, a Tiny Wrinkle in Time

4 Jan

Creating a Time Cloak, a Tiny Wrinkle in Time

Despite having no degree in physics nor truly understanding exactly how everything works, I still find it extraordinarily fascinating, even if I do struggle to sometimes understand it. But thankfully other articles have dumbed it down for us normal folks to understand. But onto the excitement! Some genius scientists at Cornell University have created a time cloak, a way to mask a portion of time.

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