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Andrew LePage
Personal blog · drewexmachina.com/blogsciencehistory
Andrew LePage writes Drew Ex Machina, a personal blog at drewexmachina.com about science and history. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andrew LePage's blog for space and astronomy coverage. One commenter cites it for stellar age estimates, and another links a post on the history of deep space exploration that includes videos.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Scientific research, news and ponderings from the mind of Andrew LePage.
What Hacker News says?
Well, it's "at least" 500m, but is probably much more[1]: "Determining the ages of such small stars is difficult because they evolve so slowly over their lifetimes of trillions of years but it is estimated to be in excess of a half a billion years and is probably much more." And abiogenesis occurred on Earth within about 500m years of the Earth's formation, so life can clearly arise pretty quickly. It's complex, mul…
Comment linking /2016/05/03/habitable-planet-reality-check-trappist-1/
on “Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth”Submitted Riding piggyback on an ICBM as a story · 5 points
HN discussionlinks to some vids: https://www.drewexmachina.com/2017/12/17/a-history-of-deep-s...
Comment linking /2017/12/17/a-history-of-deep-space-evas/
on “Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died”Submitted NASA’s Apollo 15 Mission: A Kid’s View from 1971 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Habitable Planet Reality Check: Kepler 186f Revisited as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SOLRAD: First Electronic Intelligence Satellite – launched 56 years ago as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Disappointing Flight of NASA's Mercury-Atlas 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ramos: The Russian-American Observation Satellites (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Koi-4878.01: Kepler’s Most Earth-Like Planet Candidate? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apollo 7: Rise of the Phoenix as a story · 1 points
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