Starship Asterisk*

I guess the big difference that Yuri would have seen (or not seen) is the amount of light pollution we make, and also the energy we waste. But hey, we can let our kids and grandkids sort that out. :? Assuming that this is a true-ish colour image, see how the whole country's lights are the same colou...

Ann wrote: Caramel custard.

Just sayin'.


Ann

Thus solving the problem of sustenance for future space travelers... The custard mines of Titan

Different subject: The Mercator projection winds me up! I'm a Brit, and I always feel uneasy every time I see a map like this that shows lil' ol' England as much bigger than, say Florida, which has almost exactly the same area. Compare also the UK to India, which has about 12x the land area, and the...

I love this sort of stuff. I was educated as a physicist, but turned to the dark side and got a regular job in industry. The interactive nature of this piece would have certainly helped me all those years ago trying to figure it all out. Oh, but we only had a main-frame and green screen 80 column mo...

:-) I thought that too. What I did like was the HOVER-OVER feature of the photo. When I look at pictures marked with constellations my brain focusses on the lines and words not the dots, so it's difficult to then look at the sky , which strangely doesnt have the benefit of lines and words (!), and i...