Forecast Friday: Are We There Yet?

When I was growing up, our country went to the moon (actually, we took the rest of the world with us.) I was twelve years old when I watched Neil Armstrong first take that “one small step for (a) man”, and the last mission finished up just before my sixteenth birthday. I had no reason … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: We Need to be Led to MARS

**There are references in this posting to the MARS mini-series. I am going to do my best to avoid spoilers (the fact is, I haven’t finished the last episode myself), but one man’s spoiler is another’s old news. Over the holidays I recorded the NatGeo series MARS; this is a dramatized hypothetical mission to put … Continue reading →

“L-O-V-E Among the Stars” Now Available on Preorder

“L-O-V-E Among the Stars” can now be preordered A space traveler wakes too soon, and must leave the woman of his dreams to the ministrations of another, less-human caretaker. “L-O-V-E Among the Stars” is a speculative fiction of (with hints of a pop standard.) The release date is November 18th, and you can preorder now at … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: Mars on the Cheap

(I’m sorry – I know it probably seems that I obsess about going to The Red Planet. I do. I know there are so many more extraordinary things I could be thinking about. But Mars is SO DOABLE. After spending my youth watching our Astronauts make multiple trips to the Moon, I saw no reason … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: Is Mars Getting Closer?

(I mean my trip to the RED PLANET…) We seem to be near unlocking the power of free markets and commercial enterprise to FINALLY slip the surly bonds of Earth (without a ticket to the afterlife.) It’s obvious from the stagnation of government sponsored, centrally planned space exploration that we may never get more than … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: Just Like Magic

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke The EmDrive (see link to MIT Tech Review article HERE) is magic; if I’m reading the article correctly, it doesn’t require fuel and would revolutionize space travel. It violates the law of conservation of momentum – one of the “what we all know” … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Preserving Humanity in the Coming Zombie Apocalypse

Every once in a while, I used to wonder what would happen to the human race if things went dystopic. How could we wind up there? There is no shortage of ways that we could be hit with the end of life as we know it. In my teens, the disaster would be from nuclear … Continue reading →