Latest Additions: www.footnotez.org http://www.footnotez.org/feed/ 2008-12-01T15:12:10+01:00 text/html 2008-03-19T11:43:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/astronomy-citations/#1 If we assume that our alien neighbors are trying to contact us, we should be looking for them. There are currently several programs that are now looking for the evidence of life elsewhere in the cosmos. text/html 2008-03-19T10:56:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/astronomy-citations/#2 A galaxy is a collection of stars and interstellar material held together by gravity. The galaxy our Sun lives in is called the Milky Way or the Galaxy (note the capital 'G'). The name `Milky Way' comes from the band of light that is seen overhead on very text/html 2008-03-02T19:03:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/astronomy-citations/#3 The George Dyson video from 2002's TED just went live, describing the Orion Project, a deeply classified space vessel from the Atomic Age. It was nuclear powered. The size of a Marriott hotel and 4000 tons. text/html 2008-02-28T11:04:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/astronomy-citations/#4 You see, every inch of its outside surface was covered with Science. 57 separate experiments, mounted in 86 trays, involving the participation of "more than 200 principal investigators from 33 private companies, 21 universities, seven NASA centers, nine text/html 2007-10-29T17:32:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/astronomy-citations/#5 In this remote and rusting town on the barren steppes of Central Asia, the space race and the Sputnik era seem much more than a memory.