The trouble with that being (from the perspective of us Sci-Scoop readers) that if you have only a given amount of time for writing submissions, your time is better spent on the kinds of things you’ve been submitting. Writing engaging and insightful articles about space science is a rarer talent than writing engaging and insightful book reviews. Of course, if you could do both (hint hint) …

Unless they’re syndicated, I’m fairly sure the other book reviewers are all local.. but, hey, I’ll ask!  And yes, you do get a free book because the review pay is lousy.  Poor wife and all the books.  But there IS something grand about owning books– especially hardbacks.

Of course, I’ve also suggested that our fearless administrator write BRs for the local paper. After all, he IS a local.   I remember reading somewhere recently, “You can lead a spacesuited horse to frozen lunar water, but you can’t make him melt it and all that.”

I always assumed it was this way. But my friend who flies helicoptors in the Army National Guard tells me it is not so. They dont use equipment that actually senses infrared in his unit. The night vision stuff that the great majority of the army uses is actually seeing standard, visible wavelength photons. It is simply a photo-multiplication device — one photon hits the sensor, many hundreds (thousands?) are sent to the pilots eye.

I just thought that was an interesting tidbit.