As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks (“occults“) the Sun. This can happen only at new moonwhen the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth in an alignment referred to as syzygy. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun […]
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Video: If A Giant Asteroid Struck Our Ocean
This post is not about doomsday at all. Relieved? Yeah, me too…sort of. In fact, this video makes reference to the 1,717 near-earth-objects that NASA is tracking (at the least ones they can publicly disclose). I couldn’t find an embed code to place the video in this post so just click on the image below […]
SpaceX’s Elon Musk “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species”
Today, SpaceX’s CEO & Founder, Elon Musk has held a streaming presentation titled “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species”. I’m watching/listening to it as I type this out. I’m fascinated on the subject of our exploration of space. As captivated as I am by the tech and engineering behind it, I am more drawn to know […]