Planetary names

There is an old maxim about "cattle vs pets". Naming machines for personal use (naturally?) falls into the category of pets. I was first exposed to "naming machines" during tempor…

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Something weird: a paper on the possible effects of of an ancient mega-tsunami in Peru: www.academia.edu/s/49ded1a...…

Software lessons

(Source) > When you know something it is almost impossible to imagine what it is like not to know that thing. This is the curse of knowledge, and it is the root of countless misunderstandings >…

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The biggest galaxy ... > Lurking some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching 5 megaparsecs into space. That’s 16.3 million light-years long, and constitutes the lar…