About “Friday the 13th” I started this video project in May, 2013… just over a year and a half ago. Full disclaimer though, there were times when I wouldn’t work on it for weeks. Not sure on total hours but put it this way, it took so long that I stopped keeping track of how […]
It’s that time again! A time where the weather can’t seem to make up it’s mind – and Ohio’s weather is schizophrenic. A few short weeks ago I made this post about how beautiful the Fall weather in Ohio was. And today, we get hit with a snow storm bad enough for the kids to not have […]
This is the view from the surface of five different worlds in our solar system. I ran across this on the internet and cannot find the original creator, sorry about that. It’s so magnificent though that I thought I’d share… (click to embiggen) -Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Titan…
Inside Track My last two posts were describing – very basically – how orbits work. They described how when something is orbiting around the Earth in space, it’s really just continuously falling, but going fast enough that the ground drops away underneath it as it goes. They also talked about how two objects – regardless […]
Back to Earth. In my last post we talked about why the astronauts appear to float in space even though there’s just as much gravity in space as there is on the ground. (Well technically, the effect of gravity is less the further from the Earth you get, but we’ll save that for another post.) […]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy states: “There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. Its knack lies in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that presents the difficulties.” When you see astronauts floating around on the International Space Station, they’re […]