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Trash Talk - Can we Sweep up Space Debris with Laser Brooms?

(Space debris in low Earth orbit) Last week, when I was floating around in space and watching chunks of the Apollo 11 spacecraft drift away below me, I wondered...

Christmas is Here! Winter Watercolour

https://i.imgur.com/uqjEiBR.jpg Good afternoon Steemit! I have a Christmas-themed watercolour for you this time. This was my first attempt at painting snow and ...

Snowy Penguin Watercolour - Winter is Coming!

Good evening Steemit! I thought I'd share with you something I painted today. I've been meaning for a while to do a step-by-step set of photos to show my painti...

Octopus Watercolour

Greetings Steemit - I have another watercolour for you! I painted this little octopus a few months ago after taking Ana Victoria Calderón's Skillshare class on ...

Cosmic Watercolour - Pink & Purple Nebulae

In the spirit of experimentation on Steemit, I thought I might try posting a few of my watercolour pieces amongst my blog posts. This one is inspired by the cos...

Virtual Reality in Space, Part 1: Apollo 11 VR

Say Cheese! Apollo 11 - NASA Last week I shared a post about how we are all residents of a tiny, fragile, blue speck of dust, floating in the midst of endless, ...

Spaceship Earth and The Overview Effect

Earth Rise - Apollo 8 The Overview Effect There are many things about our cosmic reality that we are not aware of on a day to day basis. Take for example the il...

Two Minds in One Brain - The Curious Case of Corpus Callosotomy

One brain, two minds Did you know that it was possible for the two hemispheres of our brains to be independently conscious — and even to have differing opinions...

Lessons on Living from those Facing Death

Oliver Sacks In February 2015, Oliver Sacks (pictured above) announced that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the liver, and had only months to live...

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome — Curiouser and Curiouser!

Alice in Wonderland (Wikipedia) Have you ever been sleepy and trying to concentrate on something, perhaps reading a book in bed as you begin to drift off to sle...

How to Become a Citizen Scientist

(SETI@home) We live in an age of big data, where scientists have collected such a vast amount of information that they simply don’t have the manpower or resourc...

Five Ways The Cosmos Fills Me With Awe

(Milky Way) Pondering the cosmos never fails to make me feel minuscule and insignificant, but it still reliably overwhelms me with awe and wonder. Below I’ve co...

Greetings Steemit community! Cryptocurrency Youtuber @LouisThomas introduced me!

Hello fellow Steemians! I just joined Steemit yesterday and I understand that the first thing to do is to introduce myself. So here goes! Please find below phot...