Dark Sky Preserve at Wood Mountain
I found a new way to appreciate my home town through the eyes of astronomers this weekend. Also, I used the astronomers’ telescopes, which is a great way to look…
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Mars As Inspiration
Here’s an excellent space exploration mission: Orbit Mars, and return two humans safely in under 2 years. It can be done. Us humans could have several missions launching in 2018,…
Saturday At The Movies
The first music video made in space, posted earlier this week, stars Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield:
Eatin’ Bugs
Insects will be a staple food on Mars and other space colonies. Paul Pardee : Lets have the delegates to the UN have a bug banquet to show their support…
XLZ11 Space Patrol
Filed under: cartoon, illustration Tagged: cartoon, Cat, pilot, space, spaceship
Kitten on top of the world
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, drawing, paper 53, space, stars, world
The Geography of the Supermarket
“What is a greater wonder is that almost 40 percent of our food supply is wasted, a significant jump from the first time the figure was measured, which stood at…
Russian Meteorite Injures People – UPDATED
Shocking, exciting news from Russia early this morning as coincidentally on the same day a major 50m asteroid is set to fly by Earth, a meteorite has struck Russia. Reports…
I’m Drilled On Mars
I’m excited to learn that my name is selected as a site on Mars. I am unable to easily find which John Klein it’s really named after, but I’ll take…
On a Trek for Stars
I can’t simply make a fun Star Trek related blog post, I have to tie it into the Canadian political discourse also. So, here we go. Ottawa Citizen reporter, Glen…
ISS over Regina
I was checking to see the next time the International Space Station would fly over Regina’s skies, and saw it was in two minutes! (There are only a few times…
Mars Rover Self Portrait
The next step is probably self consciousness. “NASA has snapped its most amazing self-portrait yet of the Curiosity rover on Mars, showing the robot posing with its ultimate destination: a…
To the Moon and Back: Neil Armstrong RIP
Neil Armstrong has passed away, at 82 years of age. He was the first person to walk on the Moon. No one has set foot on the Moon since I…
Earthshine and Meteors
I tried photographing some Perseid meteors, but didn’t have much luck this year. I did get some nice shots of the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus though. -I took this one…
Mars Laser
We’ve equipped Mars with a laser. Our latest rover there, called Curiosity, actually shoots fricken laser beams from its head. How cool is that? Is there a scientific purpose in…
Mars Sounds
One thing missing from Curiosity, that seems an obvious oversight since it’s included on every mobile computer now, is a MICROPHONE! It would be more of a novelty than anything,…
The Mars Landing Videos
Mars Science Lab which is presently the Curiosity rover, landed on Sunday night Earth time in Saskatchewan. There’s an excellent video first that explains why the landing was carried out…
Martian Automobile Association
Years ago I created the Martian Automobile Association (MAA), and tried selling memberships on eBay. I forget if I managed to sell any membership cards, but remember creating at least…
Curiousity, Mars, and the Triumph of Humanity
I just can't help myself eh? I just had to insert the Cons, like an ugly alien probe, into this amazing story. The US space agency has just landed a…
Tell me again how ‘government can’t do anything’
These are photos from Mars, taken by a nuclear-powered truck that a bunch of hairless monkeys landed there by remote-control sky-crane from a planet away. I was able to download…