Starship Asterisk*

I think part of the answer can be found here. The drill bit analogy is a step in the right direction.

http://www.wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html

JE

It's not! It may and probably does still exist but not THERE. Everything is moving. Even if the central mass has violently exploded, 60 million years is probably not enough time for the entire mass to have disintegrated. The galaxy as a whole has moved somewhere else however. Anything beyond that is...

Can Encaladus enter Saturns atmosphere? What would it be like to run headlong into a gas giant? I saw something on tv the other day that showed some molten aluminum. I don't remember the program, but the swirling patterns visible reminded me of the swirling patterns that we see on Jupiter and to a l...

What if D-O-G really spelled Cat???

JE

Manned spaceflight was exciting running up to the Moon. But now we need to get some robots on the surface of these other worlds to answer these questions. I hope we stop screwing around with the desire to fulfill science fiction romanticism. Humans on the surface may be romantic but robots on the su...

Don't you wish your mind had the capacity to truly understand these pillars? My feeble mind wants to imagine them as thunderstormlike clouds but of course that is so wrong. It would be much easier to comprehend if the activity that takes place here was time lapsed to say, one frame every thousand or...