Category Archives: Political Climate

Anglosphere Ascending

Posted on Fri 29 Jul 2016 by Brady Caldwell

Dark Energy acoustic ripples confirm Universe acceleration: new Biggest & Best 3D galaxy map. Juno spacecraft with Jupiter Orbit Insertion completed: 250 000 kmph/4200km above/48min burn WOW!   Fantastic video of Mars Curiosity rover (& Humans) exploring a planet, driving up Mt Sharp, … Continue reading →

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Exiting Exuberance

Posted on Thu 30 Jun 2016 by Brady Caldwell

LIGO again captures 2 huge black holes (8+14=21) exiting the Universe, giving off 1 solar mass of  gravitational wave energy. Human plans on leaving for Mars gain momentum with the Moon-to-Moon-to-Mons (Deimos to Olympus Mons) stagecoaching exodus.     Down on Earth, scientific … Continue reading →

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Seeing Sensibly

Posted on Sat 30 Apr 2016 by Brady Caldwell

Hubble Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635). 8000 ly away & 10 ly across. Big, blue  & beautiful. WOW! The Space Telescope extends our senses, so we see sights scarcely imaginable.  Looking closer to home: Humans are daring mighty things, again, with Starshot … Continue reading →

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The Sense of Scientific Style

Posted on Thu 31 Dec 2015 by Brady Caldwell

Steven Pinker (p6): Today’s writers are infused with the spirit of scientific skepticism and the ethos of questioning authority. They rightly expect reasons for any advice foistered upon them. WOW! Mars, our next home. Below: Mars – sol 1197: (left) Gale meteorite … Continue reading →

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The Great Enrichment

Posted on Sat 31 Oct 2015 by Brady Caldwell

Ooooo, we’re getting closer. Saturn’s moon Encleadus gets deep-dived by the Cassini spacecraft, over its north and south poles (49km), looking for organics from its oceans. Humans have just completed surveying the Solar System, now the colonization stage begins. Onward to … Continue reading →

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Herding Humans

Posted on Wed 30 Sep 2015 by Brady Caldwell

Magnificent Martian mountianscapes beckon (10 Sept 2015) with briny water in wet sand flowing downhill in warm near zero sunshine. However hype & fear overtook science as NASA exaggerates to get money for its future Phobos outpost and the Planetary … Continue reading →

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What Mad Pursuit

Posted on Mon 31 Aug 2015 by Brady Caldwell

EU and US race to Jupiter’s moons to be 1st to find extraterrestrial life out in the Universe. Who wants to finish 2nd? Doing what humans do best, gathering knowledge, so we all win. Mars may have fossils but live … Continue reading →

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Sailing Dreaming

Posted on Fri 19 Jun 2015 by Brady Caldwell

Time to dream of distant shores, time to let imagination soar. Time to search out worlds afar, time to reach out for the stars.      Dawn space probe orbits asteroid Ceres, its white spots beckoning. Asteroid mining next, for … Continue reading →

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Whence Waves Wither

Posted on Sat 28 Feb 2015 by Brady Caldwell

Big Bang BICEP2 bombs. Gravitational waves disappear under the withering skeptical gaze of the scientific method. “A worrying disregard for the scientific method in some very senior scientists who really should know better” – Ouch! That’s gotta hurt. Out of … Continue reading →

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Mind Life

Posted on Thu 31 Jul 2014 by Brady Caldwell

Finding freedom across the Aegean, at the 4thC BC architypal Lindos Acropolis, with the exquisite Aphrodite Bathing & Zorba dancing, to the joy of life. But, back down to Earth        Ooowee … we are getting better. Kepler-93b: 300 light years away, … Continue reading →

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