Einstein’s Minute. How Far Does A DeLorean Move When Travelling in Time?
How far did Einstein travel in Back To The Future during the DeLorean’s first journey, and why does Eric Idle hold the answer to Doc Brown defeating FedEx?
Tag: space
Hello Pluto, this is Earth calling….
New Horizons wakes up from its slumber. Six weeks until operations against Pluto commence. Warm up the cameras, fire up the spectrograph, on the bounce little trooper. Let’s do some sciencing.
XKCD and the X-15 Astronauts
There are moments when you can look at an XKCD cartoon and now exactly what the mouseover text is hidden. ‘Astronaut Vandalism‘ was one of those moments, although I was half-expecting the change from 62 to 50 to be done not be ‘retired USAF pilots’, but by Joe Engle, the last of the eight X-15 astronauts still alive.
Dennis Tito’s echoes of Apollo’s day trip to Venus
I’m fascinated by Dennis Tito’s announcement of a manned fly-by of Mars (if he can find a few more people to co-fund it with him), with the goal of sending two people on a 500 day mission to fly out to Mars, pass round it at high speed, and then come back to Earth again. Because you don’t stop at the other end, it doesn’t need a huge amount of energy. It’s not the first time something like this has been proposed, NASA had a wacky plan to do this with a Saturn V and an Apollo capsule in the
