Short Stories

Collection of short posts and short stories.

Nadieh Bremeh’s Space Wars

Continuing the subject of space travel and satellites… Here is Nadieh Bremeh’s visualisation of all the satellite’s in space, commissioned by Scientific American in 2020. Nadieh started out as an astronomer before wanting to flex her creative muscles, becoming a…

Cost of Space Travel

Source: It was winter 2009 when I attended the UK Space Conference. Scoring a discounted ticket as a student, I dutifully attended the science lectures and presentations. I got bored. Don’t get me wrong. The science was cool. But…

Shift in “supertalls”

Once upon a time the tallest skyscraper in the world was the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan. Now – as many of you know, it’s the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (featuring in cinematic masterpieces such as Fast & Furious…