He distinctly remembered seeing those photos of stars, constellations, galaxies, what have you, in…
Apollo 11 is more than nostalgia for me, it’s a way to think about tomorrow’s challenges
A day trip to London for work starts like any other business trip. What is on the agenda, would I want to spend my time on it? How can I travel there in the shortest time? And what means of transport will I take? What I still do not know is that time will chase me the whole journey.
My family crunched together on the couch watching our black-and-white German TV with the sound down. We leaned in close to catch every word on the Armed Forces Network radio broadcast. It was July 20th, 1969.
Nice. I remember more stars from the sky as a kid, but ambient light as blocked the weaker stars.
Taking a walk in the dark on a cloudless night would reveal vast numbers of stars, a few planets, some sattelites, and an occasional moon.
I applaud anyone who take this on, but before moving on to the things that General Relativity has difficulty with R(f) has to explain all of the things that GR gets right, not just come up with a decent simulation of the overall evolution of the universe.
During the 60’s and 70’s I was an NSA analyst tasked with monitoring the Soviet space program. This may not prove or disprove the moon landings but there was plenty of energy and money spent trying.
I would say humbly that the Drake Equation is a simple version of Little’s Law, which in turn, is the basis of the contemporary mathematical Queueing Theory. This chapter of applied math was began to be developed by french mathematician Simeon Poisson around 1835. Viewing Drake equation as as flow measure given by Little’s Law, perhaps it will help…