In Space You're Likely To Crap Yourself
I received an article from Scientific American on Friday afternoon that I found most interesting. Scientific American has been around for a very long time and is the go to source for things scientific with authority. Anyway I follow SciAm with some frequency and have for quite some time. A noted astronomer, one Phil Plait, has authored up an article about the scary things in space. First off, there are more things in space to be afraid of than aliens that are hell bent on enslaving the population of Planet Earth. Or simply reducing Planet Earth to cosmic schmutz. Or some fantasy disaster created in the mind of a Ray Bradbury type. Plait writes about what is real and that makes all the difference in the world. Or close enough for the screeds I tend to pound out on the old keyboard. There are giants of a solar kind in our universe that are immensely giant on a scale that regular Joes will have trouble comprehending. These giants are called Wolf-Rayet stars and their size is cosmically gi...