In the wake of a superb hosting of the Olympics, China has wowed the world again by achieving the first spacewalk ever made by a Chinese person. In orbit 213 miles above the earth today Colonel Zhai Zhigang took a walk in space.
The official commentary declared it to be “a small step by Col. [...]
Entries from September 2008
China’s first spacewalk
September 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Space
Postcards from the edge - scientists to study near-death experiences
September 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Scientists are to investigate those near-death experiences, where people talk about floating out of their body, while remaining attached by some kind of umbilical cord, and floating off towards a bright light, bumping into long-dead relatives along the way, before the doctors, with the aid of modern technology, manage to get everything going again and [...]
Tags: Biology · Medicine · Paranormal
Celebration at CERN as the Large Hadron Collider gets going
September 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Yesterday was a great day for physics as the most powerful particle accelerator ever, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, (European Organization for Nuclear Research), was switched on for the first time, with the initial beams of protons making their way around the great circular tunnel lying under the French-Swiss border. This huge physics [...]