Category: Space

By the Cambridge Dictionary, a sailor is: “a person who works on a ship, especially one who is not an officer.” Just because the ship owner and other passengers happen to be aboard doesn’t make them sailors. Just the same, it feels wrong to me to call Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and the passengers they […]

Edit – Moderators saying that “most posts were removed by automod” – a blatant lie as automod CANNOT both lock posts and add removal reasons telling a post is “off-topic” – this can only be done manually. They are wilfully ignoring one of their mods’ agenda EDIT (1:25pm PT, 12 hours since this post) – […]

Mars at Close Range: How Perseverance Reframes Ourstride into the Solar System The July 2020 landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover marked more than a successful spaceflight moment. It signified a deliberate pivot in planetary science and exploration—the move from remote observation to technologically immersive, sample-return–dreaming missions. Below the surface drama of thrusters, parachutes and sky-cranes […]

I.e Mars- Ares Venus- Afrodite Jupiter- Zeus Mercury- Hermes Earth- Gaia (hence geography etc.) (Primordial deity) Neptune- Poseidon Saturn- Cronos (Titan) Uranus- (already Greek) Ouranos (Primordial deity) We even call the sun Helios