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6 November 2009

Tomorrow is Carl Sagan Day

Tomorrow marks the first annual Carl Sagan Day. It will be held at Broward College in the Miami area of Florida. It will be celebrated by people around the world however, by simply pausing to reflect on the life of a man who brought the wonders of Science to millions. Sagan worried a lot about scientific literacy.  To have a functioning society, where the public makes thoughtful decisions on everything …

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29 October 2009

His Star Picture is Better Than Your Star picture!

Axel Mellinger is a professor and physicist at Central Michigan University, but at night he is an amateur astronomer. He has compiled an incredible photo of our Milky Way Galaxy and the ENTIRE night sky using over 3000 high resolution photographs. The picture above is a VERY LOW resolution image of his big picture. The new image is the highest resolution It took him almost two years and travel from …

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12 September 2009

What Einstein Was Really Thinking About!

Sometimes, when people get together, the conversation will steer towards some of the very weird things predicted by Albert Einstein and his papers on relativity. Things like travelling at the speed of light, and how time travel into the future is possible. It’s a fun subject to speculate about, even if you’re not a certifiable science geek like me. (My wife would definitely agree on the certifiable part- but my …

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13 August 2009

A Glimpse of The Edge of Time Itself.

Astronomers have done something very, very cool. You really have to see this: I use the Doppler affect to spot tornadic thunderstorms. Astronomers use it to peer at the very edge of time itself.

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29 March 2009

Can The Universe Expand Faster Than Light?- Apparently Yes!

When it comes to NASA Satellites, Hubble is the star of the show. The Mars probes have gotten plenty of interest lately, but compared to Hubble, they are a flash in the pan (Wonder where that saying comes from-photography I suspect). No doubt about it, Hubble has been fantastic, and the Space Shuttle is scheduled to do one last repair mission on it in a few months. My favourite picture, in all …

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1 July 2008

A Fascinating Week

I spent last week in Denver at the American Meteorological Society conference on Broadcast Meteorology. You should know that of all the Meteorologist who belong to the AMS in this country, very few work on TV! There are many many more who work for NOAA, NASA, and private firms. Researchers, climate scientists, university professors etc. Having the conference in Denver gave us the ability to visit two key research facilities. …

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18 August 2006

Deep Time

One of the last things I had to do before I finished my Masters in Earth Science was a presentation on James Hutton. Hutton is not one of the famous great scientists like Newton, Darwin or Galileo. He probably deserves to be a name that everyone knows, but such is not the case. Hutton is known today as the founder of modern Geology. He was a Scottish naturalist who had …

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28 May 2005

That’s Zulu not Sulu! (but live long and prosper anyhow)

My wife always laughs when someone asks me the time because I will tend to give the unsuspecting questioner the response…WHERE? Time depends on where you are. (It also depends on how fast you are moving but let’s leave the relativity stuff for another blog) I’m also asked what the “Z” means on radar images and satellite images we show. The answer is GMT. Z stands for Greenwich Mean Time. …

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