Scientists here seem to avoid the answer that honeybees and wargame designers have figured out without fancy-schmancy doctorates in physics. There’s an inherent efficiency in the hexagon, as if it’s the shape you would get if you could divide a square by a circle.
Bees, Saturn, astronomy | bshears April 10, 2010 | 
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An interesting post on why the large asteroid-tiny planet of Ceres might be the best place to start an Earthling home away from home. I’m for it, if it gets us farther out faster.
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Ceres, Earth Orbit, asteroid, astronomy | bshears April 7, 2009 | Comments (0)
Well, maybe this isn’t the planet where Billy Pilgrim met Valerie Perrine but the star in what is now officially a “system” has almost as funny a name: Fomalhaut.
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Science Fiction, astronomy | bshears November 13, 2008 | Comments (0)
