by David Todd | Jun 28, 2016 | On a Lighter Note, Satellites
Whether it is a rogue Great White shark in the movie Jaws (1976), or a menacing giant squid in Disney’s version of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), sea monsters are the stuff of nightmares. In the latter film, the giant squid was called the Kraken,...
by David Todd | Apr 12, 2016 | On a Lighter Note
The month of April has had its fair share of amusements, none of them related to April Fool’s Day. That most excellent space physicist and orbit tracker, Jonathan McDowell, initially reassured his followers, in a twitter explanation, that the debris being fired off...
by David Todd | Mar 14, 2016 | Apollo, History, On a Lighter Note, On a Sadder Note, Science, Seradata News
Research has found that conspiracy theorists who believe that that the Apollo moon landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s were fakes are more likely to be “narcissists” than other individuals. The online research conducted by the University of Kent has...
by David Todd | Mar 11, 2016 | On a Lighter Note, SpaceX
As your correspondent and his Seradata space analyst colleagues enter launch, re-entry and landing events onto the SpaceTrak database, we are finding it hard to log the landing ships involved in SpaceX’s so far unsuccessful Falcon 9 reusable first-stage down-range...
by David Todd | Feb 19, 2016 | exploration, On a Lighter Note, Seradata News
That now traditional insult “You couldn’t find your ass* (*English translation arse) with two hands and a map!” might well be true for some, but if you do actually have a good map there is no real excuse not to find it. For those that like to go rambling, fell...
by David Todd | Jan 4, 2016 | International Space Station, On a Lighter Note
While naturally elated at becoming the UK’s first “official” astronaut in space as part of ESA’s astronaut corps, that did not prevent Major Tim Peake from making his first gaffe in orbit. Major Tim made an error in dialling back to Earth and...
