“From its perch in the Saturn system, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took pictures of Earth from nearly 900 million miles (nearly 1.5 billion kilometers) today. To celebrate the first time the public has had advance notice that Earth’s portrait was being taken from interplanetary distances, scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other Earthlings elsewhere gathered to wave at Saturn on July 19. Cassini took pictures of Earth between…
Today we went to Isaac Newton’s birthplace, Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire. It’s a nice little manor house, mostly from the 17th century. In the field opposite, there’s a horse with markings exactly like a Friesian cow. We nicknamed it the moo horse. More to the point, the house has drawings scratched into the plaster walls by the young Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, premature and so…
So we were driving along in Norfolk, when we found this in a little village. There was no sign of The Doctor, just a little note on the door saying that photos were fine in exchange for a charity donation. What a good idea! Luckily there were no darleks around. Unless, of course, The Doctor had to wipe our memories for our own good, like he did with Donna Noble.
Well I did nearly all of it.The cat is safely installed in a new cattery since the old one wasn’t available. Both the yearly and quarterly tax returns have been done. My son has a new passport. We have B&Bs booked for the beginning and end of the holiday. I have told people who employ tour guides that I won’t be on the island. I have interviewed Pedro Álvarez, the director of Grantecan, although I…
After reading what Conservapedia had to say about E=mc2, I got curious as to what they’d say about general relativity The theory of relativity has been repeatedly contradicted by experiments [snip] It is unlikely tenure or a Ph.D would be awarded to any critic of the theory. Well the second sentence is true, at least for physics departments. But according to Wikipedia, The predictions of general relativity have been confirmed in all observations and experiments…
Have you heard of Conservapedia? It’s like Wikipedia for US right-wingers, guaranteed to be their version of politically correct. The article on Einsein’s famous formula, E=mc2, is interesting. It says, In fact, no theory has successfully unified the laws governing mass (i.e., gravity) with the laws governing light (i.e., electromagnetism), and numerous attempts to derive E=mc² in general from first principles have failed. Political pressure,[2] however, has since made it…