When we recently planned a trip to Death Valley National Park, people said spending 3 days in Death Valley would be wasteful since there wasn't much to do in Death Valley. But 3 days were not enough for Death Valley. Really! There is a lot to see and do! Death Valley is gifted with a... Continue Reading →
Russian space missions
This is a continuation of my post: Planetary Missions. While the earlier post was mostly biased towards NASA, this post is mostly about USSR's missions. I browsed through "Russian federal space agency" website sometime back and found information on many of their space missions. http://www.roscosmos.ru/ (OR) http://www.federalspace.ru/ I thought I will make a brief summary of my findings... Continue Reading →
How I killed Pluto… and Dragons of Eden – Book Review
I love reading non-fiction books, especially those on science. That should explain why I always expected and was excited to receive encyclopedias as my birthday gifts from my parents. Every year they would give me some series of books or some huge encyclopedia, mostly on science. I told you I am a nerd 😀 This... Continue Reading →
Hawking’s grand design
Just some months back, there was a lot of hullabaloo about Stephen Hawking's new book, where he stated : "Modern physics has now proved that God played no role in the creation of the universe." Atheists and theists, everyone was commenting on this statement. Theists wrote a lot of posts (just on WordPress) refuting Hawking's... Continue Reading →
Seriously Science – II
Let's look at some moons this time. I got a chance to click some pics of our moon sometime back when it was almost full moon and again recently just few days back. Like somebody suggested last time, I should probably name this series as sci-pho, since most of the time I end up with... Continue Reading →
Planetary Missions
Who : Avada What : Planetary Missions Spicy : Avada has a geeky post after a long time in her own words and we liked it. It is a post about the planetary missions which have been sent to the space from the earth. A very well researched post and a sure read. Long time... Continue Reading →