Yesterday, at 9:33 PM, I was out in the driveway, sitting in my lawnchair, staring up at the moon—and the tiny dot of the red supergiant star, Antares. I was waiting for the exact moment when the dark edge of the moon would move in front of the star and it would wink out. These… Continue reading With My Own Eyes: Lunar Occultation of Antares
Author: hmelton
Converting an Asteroid into a Space Station
I just ran across a lovely paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12353 where David W. Jensen, Ph.D. describes sending a single rocket probe to a Near Earth Asteroid with a bunch of robots that … twelve years later have converted the asteroid into a massive wheeled space station. I highly recommend downloading the PDF and reading it. What was… Continue reading Converting an Asteroid into a Space Station
Using AI as a Tool
You’re all probably tired of all the AI hype. But, as I’ve been looking at it, I’m quite sure that more and more of the text you read will have increasing amounts of AI input. The world, however, is not coming to an end. People like me, who sell personally created text, will probably be… Continue reading Using AI as a Tool