The Great Galactic Service Station – Part 9

"Why have you brought us out here?" Ralph cried, pushing his finger through his hair and gripping it in frustration? "We have to go about two hundred miles and you've brought us probably two hundred light years!" "How did you know that?" Harry asked surprised. "Maybe you're better at space travel than we thought!" "Oh …

Andromeda Galaxy

I saw this on Tumblr and had to share it - this is what the Andromeda galaxy would look like in the sky if our eyes were more sensitive! https://cosmosastronaut.tumblr.com/post/169742302588/beautiful-andromeda-galaxy-how-amazing-would-it Simon 🙂

Minion Thoughts – If people are talking behind your back…

This seems like a good idea... What do you think? Simon 🙂

Manic Monday Number 4 :-P

Seriously... what a fucking week! But let's not dwell on this, between all the bits and pieces of my life they conspired against me - hence my relative absence last week. But back to this week, a week I'm hoping will be a bit more fun and more progress in it. I've already made a …

I am going seriously nuts over this!!!

Nearly five years ago I created this blog. At first it was called rather unimaginatively sfarnell. After some time and after realising my love of all things science fiction and space the blog name was changed to Planet Simon. It was appropriate. Even though I didn't know it at the time I had created a …

Mars – Equator to South Pole

I liked this view of Mars, because it's one you don't get to see very often. I posted this the other week, but since then I've played with the images and joined them together for one seamless shot! I'm quite pleased...   Taken from NASA's Tumblr Page Simon 🙂

Boeing and Space X’s epic space race to Mars

The new space race is here. Just as in the 1960's where Russia and America raced to get a man standing on the Moon Mars is now in the sights of two competing tribes. This time though it's not countries but companies that are fighting it out. Boeing has boldly claimed that the mega rocket …

The Science of Happiness

This is another Pinterest post I had to share: Pinterest Link: The Science of Happiness Simon 🙂

Coincidences – Is the Universe rarely so lazy?

I've been on this Earth a little while now and if there's one thing I'm increasingly convinced that doesn't exist or is rare it's coincidences. The premise is that on your path in life many, many other paths cross yours in different ways and these are totally random events. But I'm not so sure. Do …

100 Wise Words you wish you had known earlier

I saw this on Pinterest and I simply HAD to share it with you all, ok some things don't apply so much to me, I don't see a loaded gun very often and driving 'stick shift' isn't mandatory in the UK but you can't really drive until you can use it. Apart from that... some …

Minion Thoughts – Driving people crazy…

I think I was born with it, it's comes so naturally... Simon 🙂

NASA What’s up in January 2018

  https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/169239297109/whats-up-january-2018 Taken from NASA's Tumblr page! Simon 🙂