Starship Asterisk*

I'd never heard of C2 before. Fun! Perhaps it should be a Wikipedia link in the text, though.

"depicts the estimated fraction of stars" Fraction? Is 20 a fraction? Did you mean percentage? I was wondering that. The bar for Earth comes to about 16. Is that 16%? One in 16? I followed the link to the Harvard-Smithsonian site, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2013/pr201301_images.html ...

I loved this picture when it appeared on APOD on 19 January 2010 , and I still love it. I think word for word the same commentary is a bit poor, though. I have no problem with seeing dark sand cascading down a slope. I don't think the dark marks look particularly straight or particularly parallel, e...

... the server had crashed. I mean, most problems really come down to computer crashes, don't they? Actually, we'll need to do something about that before we start trusting our lives to them on long voyages...

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Today's cartoon on XKCD really blew me away! I think the cartoonist would readily agree to its being hosted here. http://xkcd.com/1071/ http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exoplanets.png If you go to the XKCD website and click on the image there, you get an even bigger one. I find it mind-blowing that we ca...