Solar Eclipse Tips and Facts

A solar eclipse only happens during a new moon. Examine the moon. Does it look old? If so, false alarm, go inside and watch television. ☼ Use proper eye-wear when viewing an eclipse despite the fact that it makes you look like a cowardly, over-cautious wimp and women will laugh at you… ☼ If you […]

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Some Stuff I’m Working on

Early on in modern astronomy, most scientists felt that the Universe was eternal. It was the scientific equivalent of shrugging your shoulders and saying, “I dunno. It was like that when I got here”. Later, they noticed signs that maybe the Universe hadn’t been here all along. With the aid of a spectrograph, scientists determined […]

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Laughing Gas: A Brief History

Nitrous Oxide was first synthesized by British chemist Joseph Priestley in 1772 as a possible means of keeping the Irish population in check or as a substitute for birds, I forget which. He found that inhaling the gas produced euphoria and giddiness… the same emotions one feels after running over a corporate lawyer and then […]

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Q and A on Marine Life

[Most questions taken from Google results] Q. What is the deepest fish in the ocean? A. Physically, the deepest fish ever caught was Abyssobrotula galatheae, at a depth of over five miles. Philosophically, the deepest fish was an unnamed haddock off the coast of Chile who wrote a five volume work on the metaphysics of […]

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Google Science Questions

[If you search for answers in Google, it often shows “related questions”. I have answered some of these questions and you are welcome] What would happen if I touch a star? With most visible stars, you’d burn up immediately; however, you CAN touch a brown dwarf… just get his permission, first. Will humans ever reach […]

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