So-called 2012 apocalypse tomorrow. What are we going to come up with next?

The so-called December 2012 Apocalypse is tomorrow. This will be a non-event but what will we come up with next? Sure the Sun will burn up the Earth in about 5 billion years and the planet Earth will be unlivable for multi-cellular life in about 300 million years. So the Earth will end eventually; either … Read more

A look at the Armageddon movie and Hollywood depictions of space travel.

On the space.com website, there is an article about the Armageddon movie and the giant asteroid that was threatening the Earth. They calculated that the energy needed by a bomb to destroy the Asteroid would be 800 trillion terajoules — compared with the 418,000 terajoules produced by history’s most powerful blast, the Soviet Union’s test detonation … Read more

House representative kills SOPA Internet Censorship bill.

The House of Representatives in the United States have killed the Stop Online Piracy Act. This is a great success in protecting the freedom and openness of the Internet. There have been many people attacking the Internet and even Google for copyright infringment. Rupert Murdoch was speaking out against Google on Twitter accusing Google of … Read more