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At a nearby university the engineers had a saying engineers rule the world or ERTW and also they had a pub that cloud only be used once a month in...

Most introductions to Newtons law of gravity include a thought experiment about firing cannons of ever increasing power till the cannon ball goes...

Wait. Are you saying that meeting a person in the real world, discovering a mutual affection, then arranging to spend time together to see what...

So, as an addendum, part of my issue isn’t just space, but access and organization. Space sure is an issue with books, though, and I end up storing...

Exactly. I’m not much of a music listener, but decades ago I dealt with the record organization and storage problem. Then when I bought an Apple...

Even I, a confessed and confirmed Luddite, have moved beyond that. The problem was just the physical storage space.

I just watched Scot Manley's video of the SLS -- um, how do I put this? -- non-success and then a NSF one from Boca Chica. The contrast could...

As an outsider to dating and finding people to date, I notice that I've seen it go from entirely offline, to mostly offline with dating/matchmaking...

30 of 48 European countries have populations smaller than London. 44 of 56 US states and territories have populations smaller than New York City.

But if you look for games on the Internet using Bing, likely the first result will be on game theory and the second on hunting. Somewhere near the...

But SpaceX went from 1 Merlin to 9 and then to 27. So a small step like 3 to 4 is mathematically proven to be a lot more simple. (tongue still in...

Back in some previous century I was looking for books about games in the card catalog at a library. When I came to the end of the games section I...

So if you're in outer space then you are not in the atmosphere any longer, thus reentry. I'm not disagreeing that there is very thin atmospheric...

Only if intelligent life is evenly distributed. And if the Copernican Principle applies to intelligent life. Neither is a given. We currently have...

All sources that I remember seeing uses reentry in this case. Often qualifying it as suborbital reentry but orbital reentry is pretty wussy compared...

You can't "reenter" what you never left. The only physical meaning of the Karman line is as an upper boundary to sustained aerodynamic flight,...

I don't believe you are using the common definition of outer space: ...

California has a larger population than Canada.

Oh, excellent. Many thanks for posting that. George, sadly, seems not to have been around since May last year. We could have done with this while...

Mars Needs Minerals: Researchers Are Trying to Turn the Red Planet Green. Thanks to NASA’s rovers and landers, scientists know about the pH and...

I occasionally wonder how I used to waste all this time without the internet. Then I remember I had a job!

I do hope books survive. Especially those unpopular ones that will not get digitised or read aloud. I find I use the ubiquitous dictation button (not...

Really? The engineers at my university were second only to the divinity students for their massive alcohol consumption. They had a "song" (more of a...