Colonisation
Humans have this instinct to explore and to colonise. From the earliest times man has been an explorer, initially to find food but then to search for better places to live and to find resources....
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Image via Wikipedia You know, we live on a very special planet and for those of us who believe in a Creator God, one that was purpose-built. Well even if you are an atheist or believe in other things...
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Image via Wikipedia It has been a long time since I wrote about Space travel or Astronomy. Two of my favourite subjects deserve a better airing but I have other things to think about. Humankind has...
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Mars, 2001, with the southern polar ice cap visible on the bottom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I don’t know how many of my readers actually browse the links over on the right-hand side of this page but I...
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Mars, 2001, with the southern polar ice cap visible on the bottom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It is proposed that by the year 2023 four humans will set foot on the planet Mars. Two years after that four...
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Earlier in the year there were reports of a potentially exceptional display of cosmic grandeur to look forward to this November, a new comet had been discovered and initial assessments indicated that...
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NASA astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (left) and European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s first of three planned sessions of...
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Venus reflected in the Pacific Ocean (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Early one morning (Tuesday to be exact) and before the sun was rising as opposed to the song’s version, just as the sun was rising,...
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