IT WAS A LONG TIME COMING, but the Sorcerer Supreme of the planet Earth has finally made it to the big screen! Doctor Steven Vincent Strange, decades-long mystic hero from Marvel Comics is gracing 3-D Cinema all over the world, and raking in the big cash hand over fist… and rightfully so! The special effects…
Musings on Miayamto Musashi and the Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) Statue on Ganryu Island depicting the duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro A long time ago in a land far, far away, there lived a very strange and dangerous man. He is known to us as Miyamoto Musashi (also called…
THE MORNING AFTER! The candy haul is in, gourds need to be bagged and disposed of, and for those unpopular neighbors trees and lawns have been decorated in long white streamers. Halloween is over, and those post-scary-night blues are starting to hit you. Some words of advice, get up an hour or two earlier. If…
Space is not simply a hole into which money that could be better used for food stamps or worker retraining is flushed. It fundamentally helps economies and the poor. The single most powerful example of this is the weather satellite. Storms that sank ships and destroyed cities are now spotted early enough for avoidance and…
A mere chunk of rock is survivable. It’s not likely to get all of us, though it could. Even if it didn’t wipe us all out, would a technic civilization ever arise again? We’ve mined most of the easily reachable resources around. Could we start over again? There are greater terrors in space that could…
Last blog we discussed manned space flight on the theme that we humans have to directly experience things. More on that line… To anyone who has seen the Mona Lisa in person, seeing it on TV or in an art book is meaningless. The original cannot be captured, it must be experienced. Perhaps a…
“And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close, with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth.” Frank Boreman Apollo 8 “Robotic exploration is to real exploration as masturbation is to glorious, loving sex.”- Anonymous Nothing is…
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I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED deep space stories about star-spanning governments and alien races, ala Babylon 5 and Star Trek. In my first series, the adventures of Robert Fenaday and the genetically-engineered woman Shasti Rainhell, aboard the privateer Sidhe, I created the universe all my SF stories would be set in, much as author Larry Niven did…