On the OPERA neutrino experiment, the conservative war on relativity, and the operation of science (with a nod to the biggest science boo-boo in Star Wars). One can understand, if not agree with, the conservative war on the Theory of Evolution. If you believe that a specific book must be taken literally, and that book […]
Space and Technology
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
“You see, I had this space suit. How it happened was this way.” Science fiction readers will instantly recognize the opening lines from Robert Heinlein’s 1958 Scribner juvenile novel, Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. The narrator, small-town teenager Kip Russell, wins a used spacesuit as fourth prize in a soap jingle contest, setting off a chain […]