One of the favourite sci-fi scenes is that of the sky in the center of the Galaxy, which now has taken a newly visible form. Thanks to Slashdot, I have found a video of the movement of the stars closest to the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Really fascinating to see [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Blogging through Flock!
October 21st, 2005
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I am writing this through the blogging interface of Flock, which aims to make the browser the hub of online social interactions in a closer loop.
Why should you pay for expensive, and out of date market research?
October 13th, 2005
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Now a second nation capable of sending humans in space!
October 12th, 2005
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As broadcast live on Chinese national TV, and announced by the People’s Daily Online, now a second nation alongside Russia is capable of sending a human crew in space for extended missions.
I wonder when the US will also gain this technological capability?
Just because it’s hard, you can’t ignore it…
October 10th, 2005
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The solutions of the equations of General Relativity are hard, and it is not surprising that only special cases have been analysed in detail. It is more surprising however that the professional cosmologists have chosed to treat an entire Galaxy with just the Newtonian mechanics, and when the results didn’t conform to the measurements, they [...]
