Driving Makes You Age Slower.
If two people start next to each other, one goes for a drive while the other stays put, and they later meet back up, the person who spent more time moving will have experienced a tiny bit less elapsed time.
Read post →The Apex Andromeda blog.
Deep dives, mission news, strange ideas, and updates from me. Occasional speculation.
The Sounds of Space
Sound as we normally experience it is a pressure wave moving through matter. Space is full of vibrating plasma, oscillating fields, radio emissions, seismic waves, atmospheric pressure waves, and ripples in spacetime that instruments can translate into sound.
Read post →The Universe Is Quietly Making Galaxies Impossible to Reach
There are galaxies humanity can see right now that no future spacecraft could ever visit under known physics. The problem is not just that space is huge. Space itself is expanding, and for a growing number of destinations, even light cannot win the race.
Read post →Everyone Wants a Moon Base. Here’s What Each Nations Spacesuits Will Look Like
Humanity will soon become a multi-world species. A lunar spacesuit is not clothing. It is a tiny one-person spacecraft with arms and legs.
Read post →The Moon Is About to Get Extremely Crowded
The United States, China, Russia, India, Japan, Europe, Canada, the UAE, and Australia are building the hardware and infrastructure that could turn lunar expeditions into sustained human presence.
Read post →The Scariest Exoplanets We Know About
I’m not a scientist. Just a deep space enjoyer who has spent enough time reading about exoplanets to know that Earth is apparently playing this whole "being a planet" thing on easy mode.
Read post →Black Holes Are Completely Ridiculous
There are a lot of things in space that are hard to wrap your head around.
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