Making Sense of It All
Beats me. I always hear it’s called the blue planet. It looks that way because most of our planet is covered with the ocean. Then there’s the clouds, which look white from space. Perhaps you’re confusing the term “Green Earth” often associated with Earth Day. From space, earth is blue and white.
Read More →Great question. The jury is still out on that one. I’m really concerned about why did God create idiots, AKA jerks! See the illustration below!
Read More →Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune could all fit in the gap between the Earth and our Moon with about 4,990 miles to spare
Read More →Not very big! It would just have to be natural. Not made by man! And it wouldn’t have to be there for very long either. Just long enough for it to be in orbit. The astronomical community doesn’t have a definition for moon other than it has to be a natural object. Thus captured asteroids […]
Read More →We are too heavily influenced by science fiction writers, movies and XBox to see it for what it is.
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I’m a hypothetical billionaire, so let’s discuss financing this project and the chances of success, what we’ll need to get it done, and so forth. Theoretically, it would seem possible. At the south pole the earth is 12,715 and a half miles in diameter, or about 7900 miles to the center, but at the equator […]
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A question people ask. We really want to send somebody to Mars. Why? The answer to the question is that it’s a long way away, it moves all the time (sometimes it’s a very long way away on the other side of the sun), it’s expensive, it’s very dangerous, it’s a dead planet, there’s nothing […]
Read More →[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_9umnnasX4] The United Nations building in Manhattan went dark for Earth Hour. The view was very astounding. Here’s a photo: What exactly is Earth hour? Well, Earth Hour was 25 March 2017 at 8:30pm. Each year millions of people around the globe attempt to switch off electricity for Earth Hour to shine a light on […]
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The moon is in an elliptical orbit around the earth. When it’s closer it looks a lot bigger than when it’s further away. The moon varies from 252,088 miles at the farthest point to 225,623 miles away when it is closest. That’s a difference of about 27 thousand miles. If there is a full moon […]
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Let’s revisit Sir Isaac Newton’s cannon. In the above mentioned article we had placed a level on the cannon and shot the cannonball at 1440 feet per second parallel to the ground until it fell and bounced and rolled and came to a stop. We didn’t want to shoot it up in the air in […]
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