Category Archives: Focus Topic

Portland, Oregon fire bomb

A protest that finally makes AOC uncomfortable

AOC was fine when the federal courthouse in Portland was having Molotov cocktails thrown at it, small businesses across the country destroyed, people’s homes threatened, livelihoods taken away. These “peaceful”…

crystalline structure of graphene

Our lives are about to change – Graphene

There are times in history when something big happens and you just know our lives are going to change. Edison and the light bulb, the personal computer and soon we…

Mars

Private Manned Mars Missions by 2023 Realistic?

There have been some recent movement in the private sector involving manned missions to Mars. One called Inspiration Mars plans a manned flyby in 2018, another known as Mars One…

The DSCOVR Satellite

Al Gore’s Pet Satellite Lives Again in DSCOVR

Sometimes you just have to laugh at things our government does. I remember hearing about what was jokingly called “GoreSat” back in the day. The actual name of the satellite…

Panstarrs

Comet Pan-STARRS viewable first part of March

Comet PanSTARRS Images Taken from Washington D.C. area 3/14/13   Original Image not enlarged. This gives you an idea if the naked eye view compared to the zoomed in versions….

NASA releases radar images of asteroid DA14 close approach

This 73-frame movie of asteroid 2012 DA14 was generated from data obtained by NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar on the night of Feb. 15 to 16, 2013. The observations were…

Asteroid DA14 Seen as it departs Earths Orbit

Outbound Near-Earth Asteroid, as Seen from Spain This set of images from the La Sagra Sky Survey, operated by the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca in Spain, shows the passage of…

Russia meteor map

Russian Meteor aftermath, Cleanup begins, NASA increases size estimate

Experts describe it as a “Small” object. The day after what NASA describes as a “small” meteor exploded in the atmosphere above Russia people are still in shock over this…