Dido Harding: In part wasted £23 billion of our money on a failed track and trace system. Paid consultants £7000 an hour, none of them seemed to have told her about school level science about v...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/failure-ignorance-and-nepotism/
...According to Dave from Portsmouth. From BBC News' Have your say. Well known not to bring out the brightest of people. Dave writes: We had acid rain in the 80's. That was quickly followed by th...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/acid-rain-the-ozone-layer-the-ultimate-proof-global-warming-is-wrong/
Last night some of you may have seen a bright star close to the Moon, well it wasn't a star it was the planet Jupiter. It's been hanging out towards the south in the evenings for the summer if yo...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/what-was-that-bright-star-next-to-the-moon/
Who turned out the lights on Saturn's rings? Well nobody, recently Saturn entered its equinox, meaning the Sun is directly above the equator. As the rings are in the same plane as the equator, th...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/saturn-like-you-ve-never-seen-it-before/
The BBC was trying to do an article covering the Perseid meteor shower. Well they did a largely fair job on it, well almost. No special equipment is required to watch the shower, which occurs whe...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/astronomers-do-not-say-binoculars-help-with-viewing-the-perseids/
Astronomers have a fairly good rule of thumb for identifying planets and stars. We say planets appear as a disc, while stars always appear as a point of light. While being good generally, there a...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/clearest-image-of-betelgeuse-yet/
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter which entered lunar orbit a few weeks ago, has imaged five out of the six Apollo landing sites. Which was a tad earlier than I was expecting. They were taken when...
Congratulations Timothy Peake on being Britain's first ESA astronaut. But several media outlets as per usual have got things slightly wrong, so let's gets the correction out there. The Daily Tele...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/helen-sharman-was-the-first-british-astr/
Somebody recently commented on my entry describing why the Earth isn't 6000 years old. I wrote an e-mail reply to them but it seems like they didn't provide the correct e-mail address when they...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/science-evolution-and-god-a-reply-to-a-r/
The IAU designated 2009 the year of astronomy. So this year I'll be trying to post more astronomy related goodness. With tools like the WorldWide Telescope the astronomical community can really t...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/international-year-of-astronomy/