I’ll throw in that I’m another ‘by position’-er. I simply go by location in my eyepiece case (increasing focal lengths right to left, and then again right to left for the longer focal lengths in the back row). Then in use, I’ll inevitably end up temporarily placing one or mor...
a bachelor’s degree in the U.S. takes four years to complete. While this is the same in Scotland, in England and Wales a degree will typically take three years,” says Maddalaine Ansell, director of education at the British Council, the U.K.'s international organization...
as the space craft hurtles away from us at 38,000 MPH are becoming harder to detect. So sophisticated has the technology in Radio Astronomy become, that we will be able to capture the signals for about another 8 years, by which time the plutonium batteries will emit their last particle of...
starting with the biggest of course, by the rules of stellar evolution. The biggest ones will produce stellar-mass black holes or neutron stars within the GC. Others will collapses into white dwarves. The small stars will last many tens of billions of years. The white dwarves will last long...
Yes, stories must change, but that doesn’t mean they all change in the same ways. But when you compare the story arcs of the best stories throughout history, patterns begin to emerge, and you find that these arcs are much more uniform than you might think. ...
“As we enter the final season at the current Yankee Stadium, we plan to honor the history and tradition of this iconic ballpark from the first pitch to the last,” Yankees chief operating officer Lonn Trost said. Eleven of the highest-priced ticket levels are sold out. Obviously, the pric...
Building the International Space Station (ISS) is much like building a toy using a child's LEGO or K'nex building block set. But whereas those playthings tend to be small in scale, the ISS contains thousands and thousands of parts [source: Hollingham]. Some of the major components are li...
31. I found some mistakes in the k___ to the grammar exercises. 32. Suddenly, one of the children k___ a ball very hard and it went towards a passing boat. 33. Cookery crazy is really a good k___ help. 34. Sometimes I think this old house will be k___ down by a passing...
But just how far will these solar sails be able to take us and how fast will they get us there? As we found out in the last section, solar sails would not initially be driven by the amount of force that is used to launch the space shuttle. NASA believes that the exploration of ...
much longer; three to four days on plastic and up to seven days on stainless steel and, alarmingly, surgical masks. the cdc says you’re less likely to become infected by surface transmission than by coming into contact with respiratory droplets, but disinfecting high-use surfaces, like ...