Japanese fans of sumō (相撲) have strange expectations. Two wrestlers shall like trucks in a tragic traffic accident crash frontally into each other. The tactical maneuvers, which are absolutely legal and make sumō (相撲) interesting, are disliked, often booed. I wonder why those fans don’t watch weight lifting instead. But when the wrestlers after colliding […]

Sayo-hime is asteroid #32990 and also known as 1996 YD3. Sayo-hime measures approximately 7.9 km in diameter and is a member of the asteroid-family Eos. Sayo-hime’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.03 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.08, a period of revolution of 1’925 days, and an inclination of 9.4 degrees. Sayo-hime […]

What is a Gorn? It’s a very much feared extraterrestrial species in the Star Trek universe. Captain James T. Kirk in an episode of the classic series fought a member of that species in an epic battle. I somehow stumbled upon a blog, where Captain Kirk’s fighting method got analyzed. I love such analyses, yet […]

Kiryu is asteroid #6275 and also known as 1993 VQ. Kiryu was several times precovered, measures approximately seven kilometers in diameter and is a core member of the asteroid-family Koronis. I can only guess that core member means of the subfamily Koronis, also known as Koronis(2). Kiryu’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of […]

Eucharist is known as Christianity’s oldest ritual and in this context also known as Holy Communion. But as Paul Davidson explains greatly and extensively, this ritual has much older roots and was practiced by also many other cults. Magicians of all cultures also practice this ritual, although usually on a more abstract level. Magicians imagine […]

Cydonia is asteroid #1106 and also known as 1929 CW. Cydonia belongs to the Hirayama-family Eunomia. Cydonia’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.60 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.13, a period of revolution of 1’528 days, and an inclination of 13.1 degrees. Cydonia was discovered by the German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth […]

Germany’s politicians live in the delusion of a man-made climate change. They counter it by squeezing money out of German citizens and giving it to Ukrainian billionaires, who let it disappear in dark channels. Because this policy obviously is useless in fighting a climate change, so the German government already years ago decided an energy […]

Sayo is asteroid #10367 and also known as 1994 YL1. Sayo measures approximately 3.7 km in diameter. Sayo’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.35 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.15, a period of revolution of 1’311 days, and an inclination of 2.7 degrees. Sayo was discovered by Kobayashi Takao (小林 隆男) at […]

The poem “The Chaos” provides many examples for what I call the Anglo-Saxon twist, which makes communication between native speakers of English and native speakers of other languages really difficult. I have doubts about English native speakers really finding this way of speaking easier. A tweet, which wants to be a meme, however comprises another […]

This Curiosity Rover, which explores Mars since already 2012, recently (published in last February) made a new discovery. Curiosity had already in 2024 discovered an unexpected high content of manganese dioxide in rock samples from the Gale Crater. This already was a hint that microbes could have existed there. Curiosity recently discovered organic molecules in […]