Posted by on October 22, 2022 in General News
When we look and contemplate, we realize just how tiny and even insignificant we really are. Only our mind’s curiosity can even hope to be as vast and limitless.
Robert Zimmerman: Gemini/Apollo astronaut Jim McDivitt passes away at 93
Before real human astronauts there were astro-critters…
On October 18th, 1963… Félicette became the first cat on being sent to space and luckily she came back to earth, alive
(She was launched … as part of the French space program.) pic.twitter.com/I04EOOrBx9— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) October 19, 2022
Where’s the fun in that?:
Jim Banke, NASA: NASA poised to break sound barrier without the sonic boom
Getting crowded up there…
Matt Bernardini: SpaceX announces Starlink Internet service on airplanes
Getting our money’s worth from Webb:
Imagine if we had a massive telescope perched on the other side of Mars where the even more distant Sun has far less light pollution than on the Moon’s dark-side. Or a massive telescope at the farthest ends of our Sol System.
Rick Moran: Jaw Dropping Photo From Webb Telescope of the Iconic ‘Pillars of Creation’
Robert Lea: James Webb Space Telescope spies galaxies merging around ‘monster’ black hole
Hubble’s not done yet…
The NEOWISE Spacecraft: More eyes in that deep endless black sky…
Grab the Golden Grahams and Hersey Bars…
Joshua Hawkins: Astronomers discovered a ‘marshmallow’ world orbiting a red dwarf star
Space rocks…
Nilima Marshall: Scientists discover source of one of the rarest meteorites to fall on Earth
Amanda Kooser: NASA Sees ‘Stunning Surprise’ as Smashed Asteroid Grows a Twin Tail
Margriet Lantink, Joshua Davies: Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years: We still don’t have a full understanding of the evolution of the Earth-moon system.
Stars Insider: The end of the world is near… (again!)
Ancient Skies…
St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, the sixth-century monastery where the map fragment was found. (Image credit: Jon Sellers / Alamy Stock Photo)
Inner Space:
Frank Landymore: Scientists Suggest Our Brains Work Like Quantum Computers
UFOs and Aliens…
Report: Pilots flying over Pacific Ocean spot ‘UFOs’ in past 2 months
Space Sci-Fi…
People forget that in the original TV series story “Lost in Space”, the diabolical character, Dr. Smith, had intended to just sabotage the Jupiter space craft, but ended up becoming an unintentional stowaway. It didn’t take long for writers of the series to greatly diminish the calculating mastermind character to a useless extra-weight idiot with vaudeville comedic value.
The “Dr. Smith” in the Netflix production of these last few seasons is now a female that has held on (pretty much) to the intelligent, self-serving diabolical anti-hero but seeking more of a weird ‘kin’ relationship from the Robinson family (now led by the mother and not the father) but resigned to trying to master over “Robot” (that is an alien robot found on an alien planet, not Earth-made)…
However, after three successful seasons and fan support, Netflix, true to its record of shooting off its own foot with a ‘blaster’ by habitually canceling their highly-rated fare, will not be bringing a 4th season of the rebooted TV sci-fi. Netflix is leaving the Robinsons marooned in space and loyal fans pissed … again.
Hey! Who-dat in an early 1960s black and white episode of TV’s “Lost in Space”?
I often reference this movie when the scientists get all excited about bringing microscopic life from Mars (or space in general) back to Earth…
Jack Walters: 10 Alien Invasion Movies Where The Humans Lose, According To Reddit
Actually, I thought it went from “Star Wars” to “Star Bored”…
Marcelo de Souza Silverio Leite: The ONLY Correct Order To Watch Star Wars (According To George Lucas)
~~Many thanks to Maggie and The Universal Spectator for reprint permission.