http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ the rantings and musings of James Collett en-us Matthew1471's BlogX / BlogX.co.uk Content © 2005 - 2014 James Collett http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.blogrant.co.uk/RSS/Image.jpg http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ 100 100 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:36 -0000 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:36 -0000 Science http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ViewItem.asp?Entry=304 http://www.blogrant.co.uk/Comments.asp?Entry=304 I've just found this "little colloquium", hosted with decorum by the excellent Magnus Magnusson, from 1988.<br><br>Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan and Arthur C Clarke in the same room (figuratively speaking - I think Sagan is in a remote studio) discussing God, th... <a href="http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ViewItem.asp?Entry=304">Read More (525 Characters)</a> Mon, 2 Nov 2015 19:19 -0000 Science http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ViewItem.asp?Entry=301 http://www.blogrant.co.uk/Comments.asp?Entry=301 I grew up with Carl Sagan's programme "Cosmos" on the TV. I was enthralled by it.<br><br>I am re-watching the final episode of the series and I am struck by how relevant it is today. Sagan was a scientist but he was also not shy in expressing what you might ca... <a href="http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ViewItem.asp?Entry=301">Read More (633 Characters)</a> Sun, 9 Nov 2014 18:13 -0000 Science http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ViewItem.asp?Entry=252 http://www.blogrant.co.uk/Comments.asp?Entry=252 Apparently it's Carl Sagan's birthday. He would have been 80 years old today.<br><br>Sagan was a prodigious producer of scientific papers but was also a novelist and communicator of science to the general public. He is possibly best remembered for television p... <a href="http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ViewItem.asp?Entry=252">Read More (480 Characters)</a> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:44 +0100 Science http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ViewItem.asp?Entry=238 http://www.blogrant.co.uk/Comments.asp?Entry=238 From Carl Sagan's Cosmos - The Lives of the Stars<br><br><!-- Quote Snippit 1.0 (Edit the TEXT to what your quoting) --><br><div style="background:white; color:blue;">Some five billion years from now there will be a last perfect day on Earth. Then the sun will slowly change and the Earth will die.<br><br>There is only so much hydrogen fuel in the sun. When it's almost all converted to helium the solar interior will continue its original collapse. Higher temperatures in its core will make the outside of the sun expand and the Earth will become slowly warmer.<br><br>Eventually life will be extinguished, the oceans will evaporate and boil and our atmosphere will gush away to space. The sun will become a bloated red giant star filling the sky enveloping and devouring the planets Mercury and Venus. And probably the Earth as well.</div><br><!-- End Of BlogX Snippit --><br><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pcQIyRpxils?start=1672" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>Fast forward to <a href="http://youtu.be/pcQIyRpxils?t=27m52s" target="_New">27m52s</a>... <a href="http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ViewItem.asp?Entry=238">Read More (71 Characters)</a> Mon, 7 Jul 2014 00:50 +0100 Science http://www.blogrant.co.uk/ViewItem.asp?Entry=221 http://www.blogrant.co.uk/Comments.asp?Entry=221 Colonising Space - a new telos...<br><br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cCYd7Q9SoIY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>