Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Yesterday I blogged about the MARS One folks offering one-way tickets for a trip to Mars, and yes I still think it is a hyped up Reality TV show that does not involve anybody actually leaving the planet. Well, I’ve tripped over a similar offer that looks real. AXE is offering a suborbital space flight … Read more
A group called MARS One has issued their Requirements for anybody willing to go to MARS … AMERSFOORT, THE NETHERLANDS, 08 JANUARY 2013 – Mars One, a not-for-profit organization which plans to establish a human settlement on Mars in 2023, today issued the base requirements for its pending Astronaut Selection Program. This establishes the first … Read more
The BBC reports that two men jailed in Cameroon for “looking” gay have been finally acquitted. Apparently … the way the men dressed… spoke and the fact that they drank Bailey’s Irish Cream proved they were gay Wow, so everybody who has a Bailey’s Irish Cream is Gay, hence by implication drinking a Bailey’s results in … Read more
Dan Shechtman, the Nobel prize-winning scientist, has been profiled in Guardian, it is worth a read. In fact it is always worth digging into any such profile for any of the science prize winners, they are always quite interesting, and this is no exception. If you are a regular reader of this blog you will … Read more
Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, has a blog posting today that has opened my eyes a bit further, apparently some Islamic clerics are also into the sexual abuse of children … An Imam and his friends gang raped a girl in Narshingdi, Bangladesh just two days ago. It is … Read more
How many planets exist in our galaxy? We have no precise answer, but we now have a far better idea and can now say “Billions” or even “Billions and Billions”. On what basis can we conclude this? Well here is some info you can dip into, JPL reports yesterday Billions and Billions of Planets … There they … Read more