Author Archives: Ben

This little series of essays will be me rambling about how Black Holes form, what they do, and the events that lead to their forming. In this part, I’m going to go over how a star collapses to form a Neutron Star, the second most dense and insane thing that we know of in theContinue reading “Black Holes – Part One”

There are lots and lots of 3d printer brands. Some are well known, like Bambu Labs and Prusa, while others are less known, like Elegoo and Artillery. Some are expensive, others cheap, some are small, or, like the one at the University of Maine, are 20 feet long. Let’s go over how they work. ThereContinue reading “3d Printing”

Nukes are cool. Nukes are interesting. Nukes are also weapons of mass destruction. I like nukes a lot, so I’m going to explain how they work and what they do. The way a nuke works is by using conventional chemical explosives like Nitroglycerin to compact a sphere of Uranium 238 or Plutonium 239, so itContinue reading “Nukes”

So a while ago, mom got me a course on Udemy for Blender. Blender, in case you didn’t know, is a free modeling and animating software. The teacher in the course is a British game developer named Grant Abbitt. So far, under his instruction, I’ve made a little lighthouse island and a low-poly T-rex withContinue reading “3D Modeling”

When we bought our house up here in Idaho, Mom told the builders to leave the backyard blank. That meant no grass, no trees, no bushes, and nothing else you may expect in a backyard’s layout. It was a blank slate, and mom wanted it that way so that we could build a “custom” backyard.Continue reading “The Backyard”

Phobias are immense and irrational fears that are caused by some traumatic thing that happened when you were a kid. That, or they’re more mild things that came with you from birth, like Entomophobia, the fear of bugs, or Nyctophobia, the fear of the dark. My favorite phobia is Megolophobia. This is a fear, andContinue reading “Phobias”