Image credit: NASA link Public domain image. This post is not about trashing movies. It is about enjoying movies first and then thinking about the science and technology later. Movies are movies, not science

Image credit: Wikipedia user Abizar link CC BY-SA 3.0 license You may never get the chance to travel to another star but your clone could and it could get there at the speed of light. WE ARE DEFINED BY

Image credit: Wikipedia user Muéro link Public domain image Drop an ant and an elephant from the Eiffel Tower. The ant lands softly and survives. The elephant goes splat and ruins the day of any nearby

Image credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech link CC BY 2.0 license If you were a black hole how big would you be and how long would you last? This post explores the explosive facts surrounding micro black holes. A

Image credit: NASA link Public domain image. If you are a baby boomer who likes sci-fi novels then you will know that Trantor is a planet-wide city from the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. If you are

If you found out you were going to die tomorrow, would you ask for one more day? Image credit: Pixabay The World Health Organisation (WHO) this week signalled their openness to treating the ageing process

Image credit: Wikipedia user Andreas Praefcke link CC BY 3.0 license Before the industrial revolution most work was performed either by humans or animals. Some civilizations managed to harness water power

The oceans have tides and I wrote a post about how that works in this post: Hobbits and Tides - They Are Both Tricksy So now that we know how the tides in the oceans work, the Great Lakes are very large,

Image credit: United States Department of Energy linkPublic domain image. There are many types of functions in mathematics but none is so dangerous as the exponential function. If you have watched a video

Image credit: NASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans link Public domain image. Since you are reading this post I am going to assume that you are sitting down somewhere and that

Image credit: lunar caustic linkCC BY-SA 2.0 license Human pregnancy in zero gee is a complete unknown and research for animal gestation in zero gee* is limited to a small number of mouse pups. So is it

"The Singularity."Image credit: Pixabay.com link CC0 license Ray Kurzweil is a famous futurologist that has famously predicted that human technology will eventually get so advanced that it will no longer

Edward Kimmel from Takoma Park, MD link CC BY-SA 2.0 license This post is 50% tongue-in-cheek and 50% serious, so please read it with the humorous intent that is was meant to portray. It seems to be all

NASA/JPL link Public domain image. It is not an exaggeration to say that the stars are far away. The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri is about 4.3 light years away. That means it takes light traveling

Pixabay.comlink CC0 license Robots, automation, deep learning software and other advanced production techniques are replacing a lot of jobs. It started over century ago with the simpler manufacturing jobs

The first exercise of Udacity's Deep Learning Nanodegree course asks the learner to use pretrained deep learning models to restyle photos according to famous paintings. During our recent behind the scenes

Wikipedia user:Keenan Pepperlink Public domain image. I normally post every day but this one took me a few days to write the programs and to work out what the results meant. It was fun little mathematical

Apollo 15 on the Moon.Image credit: NASA linkPublic Domain Mark 1.0 The global population as of 2018 stands at about 7.4 billion and it grows by about 1% per year. This equates to about 75 million births

Flickr user: sleighboy link CC BY 2.0 license Portals are a popular transportation device in many fantasy and sci-fi books and movies. Some representative examples are Star Gate, Monsters Inc, Portal the

U.S. Navy photo courtesy ofUnited Launch Alliance linkPublic domain image. Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump signed into existence the U.S. Space Force I have been thinking about how it would operate,