Despite Brexit? (View Post)

It depends what you mean by soon. According to this, the average life expectancy of an 85-year-old man in the uk is about 6 years. For an 85-year-old woman, it's about 7 years. (View Post)

James Webb Telescope launch in 10 minutes! (View Post)

Almost as fascinating as the instrument itself are the orbital mechanics. It will, hopefully, end up making small orbits around the earth's second Lagrange point, a point in space about 1.5 million m… (View Post)

I thank my lucky stars that I spent my younger years in a time before social media. (View Post)