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This blog is now SRHAWK.COM ! Or srhawk.com ! Not just srhawk.wordpress.com as it had been. Switched the domain mapping over to srhawk.com, which I’ve owned for several years now. Now to get a few other old domains back up and available….
Stay tuned for more. (Yeah, I know, I like to say that when I post once or twice a year, but hopefully I’ll get things moving now. Really. No, seriously.)
A couple months shy of two years ago, I picked up a new camera for myself with the aim of getting into photography more as a bona fide hobby. I chose a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera from Sony for a number of reasons. I have even posted one photo from that camera as the site header image above. It’s been an interesting journey with the camera these past many months, and I might start sharing some about it here on this humble little, sporadically updated blog. Stay tuned. Or not. Whichever. *Smiley Face*
One of my favorite book series, David Weber’s Honor Harrington series, just moved into the world of “multimedia” with the release today of the first Tales of Honor comic book. While I’ve never been a big fan of comic books in general (I’ve generally found the individual “books” too short – more like chapters than full stories… I know, that’s the point), I am encouraged by this move toward visual media for this excellent story. And since this is supposedly all part of a broader strategy to eventually bring the Honorverse to the “big screen”, I am encouraged for the return of quality Sci-Fi “space opera”.
The last time I wrote here, it was about the October 2012 discovery of an exoplanet around our Sun’s closest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri. Now, today, February 26, 2014, NASA has announced 715 confirmed new exoplanets from Kepler mission data. 715! That’s between a third and a half of the confirmed total of exoplanets ever discovered… ever!
http://www.space.com/24824-alien-planets-population-doubles-nasa-kepler.html
While Kepler may be temporarily out of commission due to dual reaction wheel failures, the data she amassed keeps on giving.
At this rate, I am even more confident of my prediction that we will find a true Earth twin out there within the next two decades, probably much less. And with Europe’s PLATO mission now approved, that Earth twin may turn out to be very nearby, in astronomical terms.
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