Recent content by Hugh Parker

Age of the universe? I have read that the Big Bang occurred almost 14 billion years ago. Astronomers report they have captured images of galaxies 19 billion light years away, but nothing exceeds light speed. The universe appears to be expanding. Perhaps some of the "normal matter" universe...

If you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs would it have? Four; the tail is still a tail regardless of what you call it.

How do you keep a turkey in suspense?

Did you hear about the butcher who got a little behind in his business?

What is green, slimy, and lives in cell phones and CPs? ... I don't know either, but one is crawling out of yours right now.

2] We finally know where to look for Martian Life.

rootone wrote: Only Mars could be possibly be survivable given an enclosed habitat and adequate shielding from radiation - Mars' atmosphere doesn't cut it as a radiation shield like Earth's does, and it completely lacks any effective magnetic field. Primitive life might be possible in the...

My business plan targets a few clients who are most likely to respond to TV spots that have already aired.

At one time, I read that the universe was, on a very large scale, essentially the same in all directions. Recently I have learned about the Cold Spot in the fairly uniform Cosmic Background Radiation map. Scientists have attributed the artifact to a very very large void in the ordinary matter...

I am an attorney who happens to be interested in exoplanets, deep space, and cosmology.