Starship Asterisk*

See the Heinlein story The Menace from Earth. He reckoned that people living in a cave on the Moon would be able to strap on wings and fly.

Lukas Stratmann wrote:Fuzzy without tail: probably the Andromeda galaxy?

Or one of the Magellanic Clouds, for those further south.

It is incorrect to say that Zeta Oph was "flung out" of its binary system when its companion exploded. It simply continued at the same speed it had in orbit, in the direction it was going when the supernova blew past it. This is just Newton's First Law: An object in motion tends to remain ...

Do we have any photos from a lunar orbiter showing the Earth during a lunar eclipse? They should show the lower atmosphere red and the upper atmosphere blue, as described here.

Ah, collective intelligence, the dream of Doug Engelbart, who invented most of modern computing. In his honor, One Laptop Per Child teaches astronomy and everything else to millions of children, and enables them to collaborate to solve the problems of the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-z...

Two words: Mount Shasta.

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