All of a sudden, our neighbourhood might be getting a little more crowded. Next week the International Astronomical Union will meet at its annual convention. The hot topic? What defines a “planet”!? This is a very important question because thanks to more powerful telescopes… we have discovered a number of very large “rocks” (a.k.a. asteroids) …
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Touring the Galaxy, at 1500KM/Second!
Some things are just too big to imagine. Supernovas… the giant explosive deaths of stars, which themselves are hard to imagine… (In a few billion years, our own star will go “Nova”, not super.. unfortunately there will be no inhabitants of the Earth left to see it. Indeed, the Earth will be engulfed, eaten, by …
Mini-Hydro and alt-energy grows in BC
Good news from my neck of the woods. Last week, BC Hydro announced a new generation projectrs from Independant Power Producers. Political objections about allowing business to control electrical energy resources aside… it *is* good that new generating capacity will be coming online in BC, and the majority of it is from renewable sources. A …