Recent content by slickstah

December 13, 1974, a partial solar eclipse. I was in sixth grade, in class, sometime late morning -- I remember wandering out into the hallway and out the back doors to look at it, the teacher shrieking at me to get back in the classroom, all the way.

Establish a permanent human presence on the Moon.

Back about 25 years ago, I went on a bender to log as many Messier objects as I could. I got the obvious ones first -- Andromeda, Pleaides, Orion Nebula, etc. Then I went after several of the harder to finds -- I remember M81 and 82 in Ursa Major, M13, 33, 34, 35, 39, 52, a few others. I was...

The utter lack of antimatter in the observable universe. I just read about an antineutrino being detected in the ice under the Antarctic. Where is all the antimatter?

Caprica. The prequel to Battlestar Galactica was a fascinating story --then Battlestar Galactica the series was awesome, of course.

Return to the moon and establish a presence there.