I have always wanted to fly around in a spaceship seeing lots of lovely stars and planets and other curious beautiful things that exist out there. To stop getting too frustrated, I have looked on the Earth as a sort of spaceship travelling around giving everyone an eye on the universe. This is okay until [...]
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Best of the Week Podcast-Everything to Do with the Preparation and Launch of a Space Vehicle
This is all about the preparations for launch of a space vehicle. It is mainly about the space shuttle, but covers lots of questions that you may have about why they stop and start all the time and what actually goes on. Why do they say that and why do they do this, you will [...]
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Space Junk Or Debris Needs Cleaning Up But Where’s The Bin?
Did you ever walk around town, getting annoyed at all the rubbish? It’s quite easy to pick it up and put it in a bin, although you wouldn’t think so looking at the state of some areas. In space, unfortunately, there are no litter bins are no floating cleanup people with a long stick happily [...]
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Best Of The Week Podcast- The History Of The Search For Extraterrestrial Life (SETI)
The story and history of SETI the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The ups and downs of the alien search with Frank Drake and a few critics. [podcast]http://www.weirdwarp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/history seti.mp3[/podcast]
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Strings To The Mother Or Magic Theory, What Is String Theory, M Theory & P Branes?
A long time back I explored quantum physics. I thought my head might explode doing that. but here I am today just about to explore string theory, which will, I am sure, push me closer again to boiling point. String theory doesn’t sound so bad does it? We all know what a theory is and [...]
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Take An Asteroid Ark Ship To The Stars And Arrive In Second Place.
Asteroids can be big grumpy things that decide that they are going to make life on Earth, just like the dinosaurs, extinct. They are flying around all over the place entering our solar system on their trajectories, and either crashing or being caught by another object in our system, or just peacefully cruising straight through [...]
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Best Of The Week Podcast- Deep Space Network
A follow on from the last podcast. The DSN is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe. The network also supports selected Earth-orbiting missions. [podcast]http://www.weirdwarp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/The Deep Space Network.mp3[/podcast]
