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The Guru recipe

[I just read a self-help book and, like Don Quixote, need to vent...] My 10 rules for becoming a successful guru: Appear popular at the...

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The logic of the inevitable (nuclear) apocalypse. Can the Gods save us?

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019

The probability of a massive nuclear war the next 10 years between any of the 8 current nuclear powers (US, UK, France, Russia, India, Pakistan,...

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Some Game of Thrones Season 8 speculation

September 2, 2017September 4, 2017

Let me indulge, purely for entertainment value, in some fan-speculation on what we will see on-screen after the Long Night is over and the final...

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Concept Split: Shockwaves!!!

February 14, 2016September 27, 2022

If Rex can give us his guide to Gravitational Waves - a very impressive performance I have to say, then I can dust off an old document...

The Rocket Equation’s never-ending tyranny

November 1, 2014April 19, 2016

[caption id="attachment_26366" align="alignright" width="584"] A Soyuz spacecraft docking with the International Space Station. As the picture makes plain, typical human-occupied spacecraft orbits are very close...

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Passing round the hat

June 16, 2012June 16, 2012

Here's a great picture of the sub-assemblies of the Boeing 787 (Dreamliner - ok it's a silly name, but it's somehow fun to say). Its...

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Cassini takes some pretty pictures (and tarts them up)

October 14, 2008

From the Universe Today website. The Cassini mission has released some of the most detailed images of Saturn's poles yet, revealing vast cyclones churning up...