June 2009
How Hubble Works →
The official Hubble website offers a brilliant, in-depth look at how the Hubble Space Telescope works. Anyone interested in the wonderful images it has produced over the years will be fascinated by this step-by-step explanation of it’s imaging systems (given in layman’s terms).
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Deadnauts
“…there are no dreams in cryo. There are no brainwaves. Nothing. Like deep space is nothing. It is a state clinically indistinguishable from death. And only waking makes it not so. I think about that a lot, about what happens if you die in cryo. I wasn’t religious before I started the journey, but here, hung among the stars, religion has found me. I wonder if this, too, is a sign...
“Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard...”
– from Rendezvous with Rama by the great Arthur C. Clarke
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