Like we all know, pieces of SCIENCE FICTION somehow make their way into reality, and – in our rapidly changing world – at a faster and faster pace. The teaser in my emailed newsletter (The Download) from MIT Technology Review said something about beaming life through space . Naturally, this brought images to my mind of the … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Space
Forecast Friday: Inspiring Hope
This week, while Meandering Monday about the Fickleness of Fantasies , I once again raised the specter of me going to Mars. I have become inspired by a lengthy blog post that someone shared with me (because among the many odd topics I yammer on about while he’s trying to work, Mars is often in … Continue reading
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
