Archive for November, 2008
How To Use A Telescope For Research (lightning storms)
No commentsBy Ben Needles
Would you like to do scientific research with your telescope? Do you have a preconception that to do serious research with telescopes needs an astrophysics degree and a telescope costing millions of dollars? Not so, even with a small hobby telescope you too can do great research with your home telescope.
Galileo used a [...]
The Troll A - A Record Breaking Gas Platform (weather report)
No commentsBy Patrick Omari
Rising out of the North Sea where it takes a lashing from some of the roughest waters on the planet, the Troll A platform is one of the largest and most complex engineering projects in the world and, when it was towed into place in 1996, became the largest structure ever to be [...]
Wine Making History and Processes (storms)
No commentsBy Dave Southern
Winemaking history started way back 6000 BC. It became popular in ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. There are two general categories in making winethe still wine production and the sparkling wine production.
Wine making started thousands of years ago during the early Bronze Age. It was proven by archaeologists that the earliest wine [...]
