This week, New Scientist reports that a robot has mastered the art of deception while playing hide and seek with other robots.  “A robot that tricks its opponent in a game of hide and seek is a step towards machines that can intuit our thoughts, intentions and feelings” The behaviour of the deceptive Rovio represents [...]

  Have you ever heard of the Drake Equation? Its a mathematical formula proposed in 1962 by American astronomer, Frank Drake. Basically, Drake’s equation is used to estimate the number of extra terrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. According to Frank Drake’s conservative calculations, there may be 10,000 civilizations in the Milky way alone. [...]

How’s that for geeky! It seems like the Hubble Space Telescope is underappreciated among the general population of non-astronomer geeks, like myself. So I’m posting this nearly 15 year old picture just for the heck of it, and perhaps Hubble will gain a fan or two before it falls from the sky or functionally replaced [...]

In 1990, after the Voyager 1 spacecraft was at the end of its primary mission, Carl Sagan lobbied NASA to turn the spacecraft around and take a photograph of earth from the distant edge of our solar system at approximately 3.7 billion miles away. The result was this picture showing earth as a fraction of [...]