Dear Voyager One, I read from the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) website that on November 18, 2026, you would be 25.902 billion kilometres from Earth. It’s significant in that you’ll be at a point where you’d be one light-day from Earth or the distance a beam of light travels in twenty-four (24) hours. Continue reading “A Letter from the Pale Blue Dot to Voyager One”
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Praising Unsung Heroes
National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) administrator Jared Isaacman praised the United States space agency’s workforce for the success of the Artemis II mission which brought four (4) astronauts to orbit around the moon and back for the first time since the Apollo missions in the 1970s. Mr. Isaacman’s praises were noteworthy given all theContinue reading “Praising Unsung Heroes”
Sometimes It’s the Smallest of Things that Cause Big Problems
It can take three (3) hours to travel to the hot spring pools of Los Baños, Laguna in the Philippines. Authorities have invested millions of dollars in improving the highway’s infrastructure but motorists still complain about the long travel time. At one intersection of the highway leading into the town, a lone traffic cop stopsContinue reading “Sometimes It’s the Smallest of Things that Cause Big Problems”
