I’d like to discuss what seems to me to be a fundamental problem with various forms of wormhole/ portal based travel in either space or time as represented in various forms of science fiction.�...
https://blog.cordialdeconstruction.com/2013/02/01/timetravel/
EDIT 12-12-11 I encourage you to read the comments at the end of this post, including one by Neil deGrasse Tyson himself! Based on some of the constructive comments and criticisms I’ve gott...
https://blog.cordialdeconstruction.com/2011/12/08/tyson-siue/
A Blue Episode As always, an episode synopsis can be found over at Scott’s Polite Dissent. Science Fiction is Often Cooler When Derived From Reality Number stations are a real phenomenon that I...
Astronomers have spotted a so-called Goldilocks planet ( Gliese 581g)orbiting another star. A goldilocks planet is a one that is of the right size to be terrestrial and which lies in the habita...
https://blog.cordialdeconstruction.com/2010/09/30/astronomer-probably-has-99-chance-of-being-wrong/
Someone going by the handle of Speising made a comment on my post Follow-Up: Energy Requirements of Interstellar Travel, and the reply I composed grew so large that I decided to make it into a fu...
https://blog.cordialdeconstruction.com/2010/08/22/reply-to-a-comment-on-interstellar-travel/
I’ve been scooped by PZ Meyers, but I’m still writing this post anyway. It fits in well with my recent posts on space; Cordial Deconstruction of Stephen Hawking? (Am I So Bold?) Follow-Up: ...
https://blog.cordialdeconstruction.com/2010/08/18/deconstruction-of-the-drake-equation/
Stephen Hawking thinks we need to start looking for another home– not necessarily a replacement, but a summer home, perhaps. He says our existence is fragile enough that we shouldn’t put al...
https://blog.cordialdeconstruction.com/2010/08/11/where-does-stephen-hawking-think-we-can-go/