Author: Daniel Tom

    Many commentators don’t seem to understand that fixed artillery, wheeled artillery, and tracked artillery are three completely different systems with completely different applications. You can’t compare it that easily, as anything can fire a 155mm projectile.     There are a few 155s that are good. Each country uses 1 according to its…

    The Kitty Hawk-Class Were the Best Conventional Powered Carriers Ever Built: Built and developed in the Mad Men era, the United States Navy’s Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers were originally designed to improve upon the previous Forrestal-class.     The four completed vessels were essentially three sub-classes that could be easily distinguished from their…

Separated by 10,000 years but linked by DNA! A 9,000 year old skeleton’s DNA was tested and it was concluded that a living relative was teaching history about a half mile away, tracing back nearly 300 generations! Four years before, when Adrian Targett, a retired history teacher from Somerset, walked into his local news-agent’s, he…

The bubble of space encasing the Solar System might be wrinkled, at least sometimes. Data from a spacecraft orbiting Earth has revealed ripple structures in the termination shock and heliopause: shifting regions of space that mark one of the boundaries between the space inside the Solar System, and what’s outside – interstellar space. The results…

Arp 91 showcases a cosmic union in deep space     It’s really “until death do us part” for the two galaxies of Arp 91. The galactic couple — NGC 5953 and NGC 5954 — are so wrapped up in each other that they’ve lost their original spiral shapes. The gravitational pull of lower galaxy…

Most experts agree that virtual archeology is the way of the future. It would be a dream come true to learn the mysteries of the cosmos hidden behind our screens. We don’t need a huge budget, we don’t need to travel there ourselves, and we don’t need to worry that we’ll be stopped by authorities…

Astronomers refer to it as the multiverse. There are multiple universes in this one. Physicists define more than one as an infinite number. These innumerable universes coexist in higher levels that our senses are incapable of directly experiencing. Nonetheless, astronomers and cosmologists appear to be increasingly using the multiverse to explain baffling observations. The stakes…

10 October 1956: At 4:15 p.m., after a 20-second ground run, the prototype L-1649 Starliner lifted off from Lockheed Air Terminal, Burbank, California. On the flight deck were company test pilots Herman Richard (“Fish”) Salmon and Roy Edwin Wimmer. The flight engineer was Glenn Fisher, and John Stockdale served as the flight test engineer. “The…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has sent back its first images of Neptune, the clearest photos of the eighth planet from the sun’s rings in more than 30 years, the space agency said on Thursday. The new images give a “crisp” view of the ice giant planet’s rings, NASA said in a news release.     Webb’s…

It has been a time of intense solar activity. The Earth was struck by distinct geomagnetic storms in March of 2022, according to U.S. and U.K. government meteorological services.   Even while the geomagnetic storms likely did not inflict any damage, they drew attention to the potential damage that may result from future storms with…