Exciting personal space law news! In 2018 a whistleblower told me about a new satellite thruster that used mercury, the poisonous liquid metal, as a propellant, and that it would inevitably fall back to earth when used, thus beginning my Space Lawyer arc — Kevin H Bell ???? (@KevinHBell) March
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: You Won’t Be Able To Read This When You Want To
This is one of those things about our planet that people would want to look up on the Internet, but won’t be able to if it happens.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Nuclear War Not Humanity’s Only Option
Aside from the insane invasion of democratic Ukraine by the Russians, there’s another pending catastrophe in store for humanity anywhere between this afternoon and the next 5000 years. Destruction from space rocks slamming into our atmosphere is a near certainty in our solar system, but we have technology that can
Continue readingThings Are Good: Organs Made in Outer Space
Custom made 3D printed organs in space may sound like science fiction, but it’s real and up at the International Space Station they are experimenting with how to print organs better than before. Printing organs is still a relatively new technology and we have good technology to print organs on
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Olive rightly questions why big pharma has been gifted intellectual property monopolies and multi-billion-dollar profit streams over COVID vaccines developed through publicly-funded research. Ivan Semeniuk and Kelly Grant write about the push to speed up the delivery of second vaccine doses
Continue readingThings Are Good: How Satellite Alerts Save Forests
Information is key to success, and that’s especially true when it comes to fighting deforestation. Organizations and governments trying to protect our forests need to know where the illegal activity is happening, when, and who the perpetrators are. A team of researchers wondered if providing alerts from satellites could help
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Team Cools the Planet by Sending Heat to Outer Space
Aaswath Raman, a material scientist at UCLA, has looked into the past to solve today’s problems. He has led a team that’s created an impressive device that uses radiative cooling to help cool anything by sending heat into outer space. This sounds like it’s right out of science fiction, but
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Meteor Explodes Over Ocean in 2018
A video showing the smoke trail from the #Meteor over the Bering Strait last December, produced using data from @JMA_kishou's #Himawari satellite.The orange meteor trail in the middle, shadow above-left. Hi-res copy: https://t.co/EXn8sFb556 pic.twitter.com/X54InkvMnl — Simon Proud (@simon_sat) March 19, 2019 The powerful meteor that no one saw (except satellites
Continue readingThings Are Good: Lunar Library Launched
A couple weeks ago a rocket blasted into space to deliver a satellite into orbit, this sort of thing is now routine. However, this rocket carried a unique payload destined for the lunar surface: a library. The Arch Mission Foundation is piggy backing a special disc on Spaxe IL’s lunar
Continue readingPostArctica: 3 Quotes
I like common materials, whatever is at hand, but especially stones. I like the idea that stones are what the world is made of. Richard Long …if the villain – who is of course a coward – takes refuge behind the ropes, claiming his right to do so by a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Northern Lights – Pictures over Norway
Auroral Corona over Norway : Higher than the highest mountain lies the realm of the aurora. Auroras rarely reach below 60 kilometers, and can range up to 1000 kilometers. Aurora light results from energetic electrons and protons striking atoms and molecules in the Earths atmosphere. Somewhat uncommon, an auroral corona
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Solar Eclipse from Regina, SK
The eclipse today was visible from Regina, but not the totality available to Americans in many states. My new Canon SX540 HS did a good job with a pair of solar eclipse filter glasses taped over the lens. The sunspot chain was very sharp and visible at 200X digital zoom,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Astrophotography Is The Best
You're looking at a video of FOUR directly-imaged exoplanets orbiting a star. You're looking at another solar system in motion pic.twitter.com/3jW8iO5oz1 — Jennifer Harrison (@GeneticJen) January 27, 2017 Jupiter is approximately 5.2 AU from our Sun, so almost 20 AU is pretty distant. First look at this star sitting 129
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Martian Weather
Have a look at what Mars would look like if it had a proper weather satellite.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dramatic Jupiter Exploration Video
It’s done in the style of a fiction/action movie trailer, but this is for real. One of the early results is this compressed/shifted audio depiction of aurora on Jupiter.
Dead Wild Roses: Breaking Space News: Perseids set to be extra-spectacular this year
Scientists are predicting the Perseid Meteor Shower will be extra-spectacular this year, with up to double the usual number of meteors – up to 200 per hour! Arb and I are probably not going to get to see them: the forecast is for clouds and rain a good portion of the night. If any of […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Mental Note: Design rocket so it doesn’t explode at 90 degree tilt
Rockets that land are a new thing, so it’s probably a minor oversight. No one was hurt in the blast. It’s hard to reuse a rocket that lands, if it then explodes. SpaceX rocket explodes after landing on ocean barge https://t.co/FowcJfrvJ0 pic.twitter.com/FAzyrvf6ns — CP24 (@CP24) January 18, 2016
Things Are Good: A Space Race Approach to Fighting Climate Change
Here’s a neat idea: save the planet using the research and development practices used during the space race. The state-lead push for advanced science led to really fun things like cellphones and laser eye surgery. Imagine what we as a species could create if we had the same push into sustainability like we did during […]
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Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: To Be Left On The Moon
Some of these items found in Armstrong’s closet, were to be abandoned on the surface of the Moon. More than four decades after the Apollo 11 moon landing, a cloth bag full of souvenirs brought back by astronaut Neil Armstrong has come to light. Among the trove: a 16 mm
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