The night sky is privy to many stories. It has been a silent observer to the history and evolution of life on our planet. Wrapped within its fabric are the stars, distant and static candles that guided our ancestors in the early days of humanity. Among them, there were a few rebellious elements whose behavior […]
Read More EXOPLANETS – WORLDS BEYOND OUR OWNThe stage is set. Our planet is in peril because there is a big piece of rock coming straight at it. Cue worldwide panic. It is survival of the fittest. Humanity is at its lowest. But there is hope as one individual rises above all others. Add a dash of unpredictability, an indestructible pickup, an […]
Read More Avoiding Big Rocks From Space – Asteroids Edition feat. ApophisThe universe has a penchant for cooking up all sorts of weird things. If it weren’t enough with black holes, supermassive stars, etc. astrophysics also postulates the existence of nuclear pasta, an exotic type of matter, within the interiors of neutron stars. To understand neutron stars, we need to know how stars behave. The bigger […]
Read More Recipe: Nuclear Pasta, Chef: Neutron StarLooking at how much technology has progressed over the last century, we have a strong argument toward greater advancement over shorter timescales for the foreseeable future. This begs the question, is there an upper limit to human civilization? I mean, how far can we go? My latest script for WatchMojo Unveiled tackled these questions in […]
Read More WatchMojo Unveiled: Advanced civilizations and the Kardashev scaleThe first I heard of Carl Sagan was in high school when one of my professors suggested science writing as a prospective career path. He would mention his admiration for Sagan’s ability to dissect scientific concepts and communicate them to his readers in an eloquent manner. He would suggest I follow in his footsteps and […]
Read More COSMOS: A Personal Voyage (1980) – “Re-View”
The Procrastinating Scientist 