Captain William D. Stanaforth
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In 1504, an anonymous mapmaker – most likely an Italian – carved a meticulous depiction of the known world into two halves of conjoined ostrich eggs. The grapefruit-sized globe included recent...
May 6, 2021 · On 30 August 2019, the engineer and amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov glimpsed an object moving against the predawn sky from his personal observatory in Nauchnyi, Crimea – using a telescope he...
Approaching The Unknown is a film where an astronaut, on his way to Mars, alone, sits in his 1-room space cell and fixes cables, operates distillers, sighs a lot, and eventually looks into space after 1 hour of said fixing, operating, and other daily duties which would be boring to perform, but are mind-numbingly dull to watch being performed.
Though the 'core-mantle boundary' is thousands of kilometres from the Earth's surface, there is a surprising amount of interchange between its unfathomable depths and our own world.
Jan 4, 2024 · The results could offer clues about how the earliest life forms made a living, as well as the chemistry that preceded those ancient microbes. But today life abounds on Earth’s surface, both above and below water, making it tough to identify compounds that were made without biology’s help.
May 11, 2021 · Scientists say we now have the most precise information yet on the deepest points in each of Earth's five oceans. The key locations where the seafloor bottoms out in the Pacific, Atlantic,...
Jun 2, 2016 · Mr. Strong plays Capt. William D. Stanaforth, who believes he has seen enough of Earth. He is stubbornly, nihilistically private: Before his Mars mission, to perfect a device that produces water...
