There has been so much exciting science news lately, and even just in everyday life I’ve encountered interesting new technology. At the new Central Library in Indianapolis the employees use Vocera, which is a short hop away from the badge-communicators that are standard Starfleet issue in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Kirk’s communicator looks positively antiquated compared to today’s cell phones; Sisko’s badge will look lame in the not too distant future.
One exciting bit of news is that one of the extrasolar planets that has been discovered, one of two detected around Gliese 581, is the appropriate distance from its star to be potentially hospitable to life. This is not to say that there is even a strong chance it is habitable, much less inhabited. We have yet to observe a planet of this sort directly (apart from our own), and so there is simply no way to calculate the odds. But just knowing where such a planet is outside of our solar system is exciting.
There is also an ongoing series on the science of making a bionic woman. And here’s a science blog entry about the Loch Ness Monster, shared mainly because the blog’s owner is hoping the subject will draw more readers, and so I figure I can do my bit to help, and add Loch Ness Monster as a keyword hit to my own blog in the process!
Finally, even the Milky Way galaxy, our home, continues to surprise us.
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