Recent content by mntmn3

If they're waiting 5 days it can't be very important, if at all.

Let's hope this isn't another one of those Chinese Communist Party satellites that destroy something in orbit, leaving another 50,000 fragments to endanger other satellites. Hopefully, its booster won't come plunging unexpectedly somewhere toward Earth as one of their last ones did.

The title says high schoolers helped discover it. The only information about the students in the article is they were from Massachusetts. It doesn't say what they did or what high school or town they were from. If no additional information about them is supplied, why bother mentioning them in...

"the larger message about how science gets politicized " -- if it involves money and personal liberty, it will involve a nonviolent power struggle, which is what politics is.

Millionaires' 11-minute sub-orbital thrill ride . . . no sign of any science being done here. And they wonder why they didn't get the NASA contract.

If Blue Origin aims to be part of space exploration, it ought to focus its efforts on actually getting into orbit and beyond, rather than popping a sub-orbital celebrity hop every few months. Can it even reach the ISS?

Did the watchers & searchers notice this asteroid before or after it passed?