Astronomy & Space Science
epub, mobi | | | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

18. The Canals of Mars In 1877 (as in 1971) the planet Mars was close–forty million miles from Earth. European astronomers, with newly developed telescopes, prepared for what was then ...
( Category: Marine Biology February 3,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, the Distribution of White Garments Among the Martyrs and the Fall of Stars (1498), Albrecht Dürer. Woodcut from The Revelation of Saint ...
( Category: Rationalism January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Olav Phillips [Phillips, Olav]

10. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE TOTALLY GERMANIC KIND—WHO ARE THESE GUYS, REALLY? So following the previous line of thinking, and assuming the Nazis did indeed build spaceships like the Haunabu ...
( Category: UFOs January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Richard Branson

Freddie went into the scrap business full-time, turning old warplanes into aluminum ingots. He claimed he was more than happy servicing and recycling planes, and that his flying days were ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Glynn S. Lunney [Lunney, Glynn S.]

Surveyor with LM in Background In reaction to the lightning strike after the mission, the mission rules for the launch director decision at the launch site were significantly strengthened. Don ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Bova

THE GIANT PLANET Jupiter is indeed the giant of the solar system, 11 times wider and nearly 318 times more massive than Earth. Yet this enormous world spins so fast ...
( Category: Cosmology January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kelly, Thomas J. [Kelly, Thomas J.]

Stress Corrosion The Super Weight Improvement Program resulted in the widespread use of chemical milling for structural parts on LM that rendered aluminum alloy parts more susceptible to stress corrosion, ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-23 | Author:Kim Stanley Robinson

When you expect to live another two hundred years, you behave differently from when you expect to live only twenty. This they proved almost immediately. John spent the winter there ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke

Document Outline Local Disk file:///F|/rah/Arthur%20C.%20Clarke/3001%20The%20Final%20Odissey.txt Table of Contents file:///F|/rah/Arthur%20C.%20Clarke/3001%20The%20Final%20Odissey.txt
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Guillen

VICI On February 29, 1812, Faraday leapt up the stone steps and rushed through the heavy doors of London’s Royal Institution. Symbolically, it was like the storming of Bastille, except ...
( Category: History January 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Buzz Aldrin [Aldrin, Buzz]

Robotic spacecraft surveys a large asteroid. (Illustration Credit 5.6) Private Sentinel telescope eyes asteroid population. (Illustration Credit 5.7) Along with the need to come to terms with the dangers of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight January 25,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-04-30 | Author:Hawking, Stephen W. [Hawking, Stephen W.]

By conservation of energy, one of the partners in a virtual particle pair will have positive energy and the other partner will have negative energy. Since then, the calculations have ...
( Category: Astronomy January 24,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Mantak Chia

ONE-FINGER ART The Belt Channel (Dai Mo) The Belt Channel, also known as the Dai Mo, Chi Belt, or Girdle Vessel, is the only channel in the body that runs ...
( Category: Taoism January 24,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-29 | Author:Paul J. Steinhardt & Neil Turok [Steinhardt, Paul J. & Turok, Neil]

A New Start with Braneworlds The plan for the workshop at the Newton Institute was to bring together as many leading string theorists and cosmologists as possible, with the hope ...
( Category: Cosmology January 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-02 | Author:Stephen W. Hawking [Hawking, Stephen W.]

By conservation of energy, one of the partners in a virtual particle pair will have positive energy and the other partner will have negative energy. Since then, the calculations have ...
( Category: Astronomy January 23,2015 )