Posts by Islander

Potato in SPAAAAACE: LOHAN chap cooks up stratospud with Heston Blumenthal

I think you'll find that that bright red cylinder was full of hydrogen...

US Congress proposal: National Park will be FOUND ON MOON

Erm... Harrison Schmitt may have been the last person to leave the LEM but Eugene Cernan was the last person to leave the surface of the moon and therefore the last person on the moon.

Oh and we should preserve the Apollo 11 landing site at a minimum when we do eventually return.

Supernovae blasts shape climate, life on Earth, reckons boffin

Err not only does the solar system pass through the density patterns that comprise the arms it also oscillates up and down in relation to the arms themselves. The Sun's orbit around the galactic centre takes around 250 million years and during one orbit it oscillates up and down 2.7 times. The orbit is not a regular one either as it's perturbed by local mass variations as it passes through.