Physical Science

 There are three different methods of shearing metal in manufacturing. Metal shearing can be done at all three stages of making the products length, width. Other methods of cold shearing are used by pipe and stamping facilities. Steel mills use…
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SETI, or the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, is a collective designation for a series of experiments designed to ascertain whether or not there is intelligent, communicative life in outer space. The search has been carried out, mostly, by trying…
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On October 12, 1992, NASA’s Ames Research Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory teamed up to launch a ten year program called High Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS), as part of NASA’s Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program. The following year,…
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Do you remember where you were when the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after being launched for its tenth mission? It was January 1986. I was in the sixth grade. Unlike the schools today, we didn’t have a television…
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Our universe is a huge place, possibly infinite. within this vast space rein trillions upon trillions of stars, and they form, trillions of trillions of galaxies, clusters and supper-clusters of galaxies as fare as the eye can see. I have…
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A technological singularity is a point at which capability for technological progress becomes both immense and self-reproducing (that is, one improvement promptly makes possible another improvement, allowing for rapid and indefinite progress). In particular, it refers to a theoretical point…
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Osmium Symbol: Os Atomic Number: 76 Atomic Mass: 190.23 amu (atomic mass units) Melting Point: 3045.0 C (3318.15 K, 5513.0 F) Boiling Point: 5027.0 C (5300.15 K, 9080.6 F) Number of Protons: 76 Number of Electrons: 76 Number of Neutrons:…
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MUST ACCOMODATE Why must a text book be the only explanation to the speed of light, when even the scientists who wrote down their ‘theories only’ are taken to be gospel truth? Are there no new minds around in this…
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Given the extreme age of the universe, estimated to be over 13 billion years old, and the immense numbers of stars contained in it, more than a hundred billion in the Milky Way alone, then, if Sol, our sun, and…
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A short tour of history can help us understand where the world was in space exploration in the late 1960s. The quest to conquer space became a priority between the two superpowers that emerged at the end of WWII: the…
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