Spaced Out Trivia

Here’s some  trivia questions for those of you interested in sci-fi movies and television. This guest star to a Lost in Space episode was also in the Hitchcock film, Vertigo. Who was it? These two regulars from the 1970’s series Space: 1999 also guest starred later in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Who were they? I […]

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Surf’s Up!

In his 2011 “Disturbing the Universe” blog posting, Dave Goldberg, Drexel physicist and co-author of A User’s Guide to the Universe, asked whether we could surf a gravitational wave. I re-ask this question now due to the very recent discovery (by LIGO) of gravitational waves from merging black holes. The answer is a qualified yes, since […]

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