Starship Asterisk*

Impressive and evocative!

I used to try to tell fortunes using a crystal ball, but I gave it up. Just couldn't see any future in it!

What would be the effects on Earth of another galaxy colliding with the Milky Way? Over the few million years that the collision will take, the Milky Way will look different (and probably brighter) from dark skies. The Galaxy is overwhelmingly empty space. Star-star collisions or even close encount...

A lot of the light in oil-producing areas (North Dakota, North Sea, Saudi Arabia's deserts, the area off Newfoundland most likely) are from flaming off waste gas. They're recovering more natural gas now than they used to, but still a huge amount of "worthless" gas gets burned to produce &q...

One of the scariest APOD's I've seen. What are we doing to our planet!? A young relative from Raleigh, North Carolina visited me a few years ago. She had graduated from college but had never seen the Milky Way. All too common I fear! Another rather shocking image is zooming in on the Korean Peninsul...

A Higgs boson came into a Catholic Church one Sunday morning.

"Get out! We don't want your kind here! You claim to be 'The God Particle' - that's blasphemous!" shouted the priest.

The boson mildly replied, "But if I leave, then how will you be able to have mass?"