Author Archives: Ben

This Halloween, instead of the usual trick-or-treating, my brothers and I decided to make a little haunted house. We did something similar the year before, but it was crude and not exactly scary. This one wasn’t much of a ‘haunted house’ either, just a little room with a small scare pulled off by my brothersContinue reading “Haunted House”

The Bacteriophage are nuts. They are the single deadliest creature on the planet, killing millions every day. Why hasn’t the world been wiped out yet? Simple: Phages are microscopic. Phages only kill cells, which can reproduce much quicker than they can be eaten. Phages make up more of Earth’s lifeforms than every other creature combined,Continue reading “The Bacteriophage”

Boats! Rafts! Jet skis! Fun things that float on water and make huge waves to get your friends wet. But boats weren’t always fun, comfy things with which to goof off or have a luxurious cruise. Boats used to be used to transport slaves, soldiers, and the like. Only the elite, ruling class could affordContinue reading “| Medieval Weaponry, Part Three |”

Time to talk about siege warfare! This includes, but is not limited to: Battering rams, trebuchet, catapults, and ballista. Siege weapons are big. Some are stationary, others mobile. Some are cheap, some are expensive. At any rate, they all share a similar purpose: Assaulting castles/forts. The very first siege weapons were literally roofs on wheels.Continue reading “| Medieval Weapons, Part Two |”

It’s official, I’ve run out of Black Hole stuff to blabber about, so today, I’m going to blabber about something entirely different: medieval weaponry and its common misconceptions! And in part two, (there might even be a part three!) I will talk about siege weaponry and its misconceptions. One of the biggest misconceptions about medievalContinue reading “| Medieval Weaponry, Part One |”

Black Hole Stars are only theoretical objects, so take everything said here with a grain of Sodium Chloride. I will be referring to them as though they did exist though, to make things less complicated. Black Hole Stars are also called Quasi-Stars. They are theorized to have been stars that formed in the very earlyContinue reading “| Black Hole Stars |”

Last week I wrote about Black Hole scale and in it I mentioned Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources, or Quasars for short. Since I think Quasars are such an interesting topic, they will be the subject I write on this week. Quasars were discovered in the late 1950’s, when astronomers found strange radio-wave emitting points in theContinue reading “Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources”

Since I wrote way too much about Black Holes, I didn’t have the space to write on their size in part three. So today I’m writing a bonus part, to go over the size of Black Holes. The smallest Black Holes we know of may not even exist. They are called Primordial Black Holes. ScientistsContinue reading “Black Holes – Bonus Part”

In my last essay, I went over what a Neutron Star is, and how to use them in Black Hole creation. This time, I will ramble about what a Black Hole is. There are three main things on/in a Black Hole, technically only two, the Accretion Disk, the Event Horizon, and the Singularity. The AccretionContinue reading “Black Holes – Part Three”

Now, picking up where we left off, let’s talk about Neutron Stars. The second most dense and strange things in the universe, Neutron Stars are surpassed in their gravity and extremity only by Black Holes. If you didn’t read part one, lemme break it down. Neutron Stars are the super compacted pure Iron cores ofContinue reading “Black Holes – Part Two”