The view from Pyramid Lake, Nevada.
[Afternoon update]
Category Archives: General Science
Poor Brontosaurus
The most popular and well-known dinosaur never existed.
Water Depths
A great infographic from xkcd.
The Rings Of Earth
What would they look like from the surface?
The Lunar Seas
Why do they face the earth?
An Ancient Air-Sea Battle
Fossilized. Pretty cool.
The First Americans
Were they European-Americans, rather than Siberian-Americans?
[Update a few minutes later, after reading the whole thing.]
Heh. “Iberia, not Siberia.” And not “Clovis first.”
Sodium Disposal
And now for something completely different. Dealing with tons of the stuff. They’d never be able to do this today.
“Recent” Is Apparently Relative
I love this headline: “Moon’s Scarred Crust Hints at Recent Activity, Scientists Say.”
Yes, it was only fifty million years ago. Seems like it was only yesterday. They grow up so fast.
It reminds me of the joke about the guy nodding off at the lecture on the sun. “What?! When did you say it would expand into a red giant?” “I said a couple billion years.” “Oh, that’s a relief. I thought you said a couple million.”
Ummmmm…No, Gregg Easterbrook
The sun is not going too “explode, scattering heavy elements into the cosmos.” It doesn’t have enough mass. It will eventually become a red giant.
Pro tip. Stick to sports.