Something to Add to Your Weekend Plans

At 7:38PM Eastern time on Sunday, May 25, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander will touch down inside the Martian equivalent of the Arctic Circle where it will bore into the permafrost to try to determine if Mars was ever suitable for life.
That is. . . if it survives the descent.  Because of the great distance between […]

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Little Green Men?

“Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
It would be greater than finding the Theory of Everything, better than understanding the origin of the universe, more exciting than figuring out dark matter and energy, and more important than understanding the human brain, […]

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