I finally got to spend some long overdue time in the observatory last night. The sky was clear and calm and the temperature was a mild and pleasant. Instead of spending a lot of time fooling with equipment, alignment, and calibration needed for actual astrophotography, I decided to focus more on ‘the moment.’ I wanted […]
‘There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.’ -That fact is so counterintuitive, it blows my mind every time I think about it. But, it’s true! We are so accustomed to think that anything that has to do with Space is so inconceivably large that when an associated provincial fact […]
The Internet is much bigger and more complicated than most people appreciate. The pieces that make up the Internet didn’t magically appear, they had to come from somewhere. Those pieces also need to be repaired, maintained, and upgraded, and that’s a massive undertaking. People tend to take things for granted, and the Internet is no […]