Tag: space
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Magnetars and Fast Radio Bursts
My daughter sent me this great article: Fast radio bursts: Are these mysterious signals from deep space getting even stranger? The gist of the article is where do Fast Radio Bursts (FSB) come from? The theories range from “cataclysmic black hole collisions to aliens (even astronomers accidentally detecting meals cooking in their microwaves).” The main…
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Apollo 11 – Could we do it again?
July 16, 2009 marks the 40 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch. Four days later, July 20, the Eagle landed on surface of the moon. It all started with the famous speech by President Kennedy. It’s still one of my favorite presidential quotes. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and…