Gwistix [ˈɡwɪs.tɪks]
Thoughts on Space, Life, Language, and other things
18 October 2017
Becoming an interstellar species
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Traveling to other star systems poses some serious problems , the first of which is actually getting there. Ignoring things like plotting a...
28 March 2017
Why I might (finally?) be switching to Opera
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This is my first tech-related post. I work in software development and do web development on the side. I'm always on the lookout for ne...
21 March 2017
Solar System Top Tens
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I'm always trying to find new ways to wrap my head around everything that's out there in our solar system. We've got...
15 March 2017
(The object formerly known as) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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With 2016 over and 2017 well underway, we'll soon be coming up on the 10th anniversary of the discovery of 2007 OR 10 , a dwarf plane...
23 December 2016
We're going to need a new definition of what is and isn't a planet… Again.
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Many people were understandably shaken when the International Astronomical Union rocked the world—err, solar system—by reclassifying Pluto...
21 December 2016
The Hebrew Alphabet is a Mess
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For the past week or so, I've been learning modern Hebrew on Duolingo , just for fun. Hebrew is a fascinating language, and an amazin...
26 October 2016
Meters, Feet, and the Speed of Light
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A first proposal The speed of light is currently defined as exactly 299,792,458 meters per second . A better way of saying this is that w...
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