While outbreaks of terrorism, the aerial bombing of civilians, the deaths of some much-loved celebrities, and the general political and economic malaise dominated the news and caused 2016 to be miserable for many, Seradata Space Intelligence did find some amusement...
American test pilot Chuck Yeager certainly had “the right stuff” when he broke the sound barrier (in injured condition) while flying the .50 calibre bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947. But he was never a man to mince his words. Famously critical of the flying...
Yes – there really is a Captain James Kirk but he is not a star ship captain. He has just taken command of the US Navy’s newest ship, the USS Zumwalt. While it has a crew of only 147 sailors and is formally called a destroyer, it actually has the tonnage...
While this column does not like to stray into on-Earth politics too much, we note that an attempt to ban full-body “Burqini” swimsuits from the beach by the Mayor of Cannes has now been overturned by a French court. And rightly so – assuming that...
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,...
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...
