mikebrotherton.com - 5/19/2009
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I am back in my university office in Porto Alegre and found some open browser windows, in addition to some new links of interest. If I posted and of these in March already, mea culpa! That seems like a lifetime ago already.
A primer on orbital mechanics , handy for sf writers.
Gary Gibson ...
Is It Sunday Already? Starlinks
mikebrotherton.com 8/31/2009 — I feel like the last time I got to sit down and think about what I was doing was Thursday night, and I guess that’s true. Well more than 24 hours traveling to this remote spot in the mountains of Norway since then, being tired and dazed, and ...
An Open Cluster of Starlinks
mikebrotherton.com 1/6/2009 — The American Astronomical Society is having their national meeting in Longbeach, CA, this week. I’m not attending, but I do have a few students and a postdoc presenting some of our work on post-starburst quasars (you can read the abstracts ...
Snappy Starlinks
mikebrotherton.com 12/4/2008 — Roger Ebert slams Ben Stein’s Expelled! Ebert is a sharper guy than I thought. An easy target, but a great take down. That dreadful peace of ignorant propaganda spewed forth by the Creationists could be added to the reasons why atheists are ...
Middle of the Week Starlinks
mikebrotherton.com 7/9/2009 — From the people are ignorant department: a significant number of people think Buzz Lightyear and Neil Armstrong were the first men on the moon . It’s only been 40 years people! NASA is taking some photos of the lunar landing sites , so ...
Spectacular Launch Pad Starlinks
mikebrotherton.com 7/26/2009 — During the week of Launch Pad, the participants shared a bunch of links. Often these were relevant to astronomy, sometimes not so much, but all part of a super experience. Here are the best of these. Some really fantastic stuff here. Sorry for so ...
What Is Science Fiction Starlinks, Value Added
mikebrotherton.com 11/26/2008 — In response to my post about science in science fiction , or just coincidently posted this week, there have been a number of things of interest to me on the topic of science in science fiction, and just how do we define science fiction. It’s ...
BLOG Online Astronomy
blog.fph.co.uk 3/29/2009 — Got a keen amateur interest in astronomy? Blogger Alasdair Stuart discusses how researchers are using online photography to examine the stars:
Astronomy Goes Web 2.0
The problem with space, as a very wise man once said, is that ...
Astronomy Science Fiction: Now with Biology!
sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com 6/17/2009 — When the subject of science in science fiction comes up, it seems like many people immediately think of physics and astronomy and, of course, astrophysics. That's not particularly surprising - from its early beginnings SF has featured exploration ...
Irrelevant Astronomy
sfsignal.com 4/27/2009 — From the 'I had no idea' department: NASA has quietly been producing a show called Irrelevant Astronomy , that focuses on on presenting recent astronomy science to the general public in a comedic, entertaining way. Apparently, the show premiered ...
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