by David Todd | Feb 5, 2013 | Iran, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
Following the successful suborbital launch by Iran of a Rhesus monkey (albeit that there was some confusion of its identity) Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced that he wants to become an astronaut on a flight of Iran’s Kavoshgar...
by David Todd | Feb 4, 2013 | History, On a Lighter Note
While a few of our readers have gleefully pointed out the fistful of spelling errors, grammatical mistakes and typographic faults that sometimes appear in our (well mainly this writer’s) Hyperbola space blog stories, one who may now be turning in his grave will...
by David Todd | Jan 14, 2013 | History, International Space Station, On a Lighter Note, space station, Technology
As Western governments try to convince their respective publics that they are truly listening, they have set up the capability for web petitions to be posted with a promise to respond if an individual petition receives enough backing. Thus a new petition in USA...
by David Todd | Dec 21, 2012 | On a Lighter Note
The end of the Mayan “Long Calendar” caused some to predict that the end of the world would happen on 21 December 2012. Such was the panic, that NASA even had to set up a web page to decry claims of imminent asteroid strikes etc. Well, of course, if you...
by David Todd | Dec 14, 2012 | On a Lighter Note, Science
While experienced pilots and even astronauts have been found to be susceptible to altitude sickness and low blood pressure, there could be a cure via an unusual use of the drug Viagra. Or so the UK Ministry of Defence apparently claims as a riposte to a press story....
by David Todd | Nov 8, 2012 | On a Lighter Note, Science
While the late Clive Dunn or Douglas Adams might have told them to: Don’t Panic, it seems that the BBC was actually panicked into trying to prevent an attempt to contact aliens on live television. Specifically, as part of a live television show called...
