Starship Asterisk*

This picture appears to be on a Sinusoidal Projection, which has pointy Poles, instead of, say, the Hammer Projection, in which the whole sky (or a planet...) fits into a 2:1 ellipse, which has less distortion than the former. The Stream appears to have a kink because of the projection. Perhaps usin...

I once visited Meteor Crater, back in January 1958, during a grueling family move out of Missouri to Puget Sound. The place was privately owned then, and charged this then-16-year-old the hefty sum of $3.75 just to look out a window overlooking the crater. There was a tiny “museum” there, and a some...