Keith’s 10 March note: Last night @NASA and other main NASA Twitter accounts devoted a lot of real time tweeting and linking of images and references in support of the premiere of “Cosmos”. Most notably, President Obama thought it worth his time to make a rather unprecedented on-air introduction to the series. Oddly, NASA’s Astrobiology program did not say one damn thing. There is no mention on NASA’s main astrobiology […]

COSMOS Then and Now, Keith Cowing “The new incarnation of “COSMOS” hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson debuted the other night. Highly anticipated, this new effort seeks to reboot, rekindle, and revitalize the indelible impression that its predecessor, hosted by Carl Sagan, made on many of us back in 1980. The first episode of the new COSMOS did not disappoint. Will it be the equal of its predecessor? Hard to say […]

Keith’s note: This video, “The Sagan Series (Part 2): Life Looks for Life“ is the second video by Reid Gower. You may recall that an earlier video of his (the precursor to this one) went uber viral a month or so ago with over 900,000 views on YouTube Alas, NASA was unable to find a way to link to that video then and I doubt that they will find a […]

Kepler Mission – Errare HumanumEst, Natalie Batalha Kepler Co-Investigator, Beyond The Cradle “Should NASA screen everything that the team plans to say in public? Should we, the Kepler team, screen everything our colleagues plan to say in public? I think that the best we can do is ask our colleagues for advice to make sure that we are understood. Perhaps that would have helped Dimitar. There are articles out there […]