Things have been a bit slow this week. I suspect everyone’s eaten too many cookies. Science/Space NASA’s New Idea on Cheap, Easy Launches Discovery is returned to the VAB in an attempt to figure out external tank issues Time lapse
Of Lunar Eclipses and Inspiration
So how awesome was the eclipse the other night? So awesome. My new house has this random landing at the top of the stairs. It’s tiny and useless, but it turns out to be the perfect size for three people
How Science Fiction Breeds Our Future
Occasionally I will end up in conversations with people where it has come up that I am either a writer or an avid reader. I will ask them what they are reading. They will invariably say something like Grisham. (Nothing
Thursday Round-up
Science/Space High Definition Video of the ISS from the Space Shuttle NASA Solarsail Lost in Space Saturn Stripped Icy Moon to Create Rings Forests May be Detectable on Extrasolar Planets First Exoplanet System Imaged Voyager 1 has Outdistanced Solar Wind
Thursday Round-up
Science/Space NASA Creates Material Ten Times Darker Than Black Secret Space Plane Pictures NASA Ejects Nanosatellite from a Microsatellite (With bonus spacesail) Dark Matter Galaxies Orbit the Milky Way Total Lunar Eclipse on the Winter Solstice (Mmm, the writer in me likes
December Overactivity
Every year, after the madness of November is over, I find myself riding on a high. I don’t know if it’s because I won Nano or because Nano is over, but every December, for some reason, I think myself invincible.
Thursday Round-up
Space/Science Saturn’s Moon Rhea has an Oxygen Atmosphere Classic NASA Video of Life on SkyLab (Don’t know what SkyLab is? Shame on you.) Picture of Colliding Galaxies Awesome, Unedited Picture of Enceladus Scifi/Fantasy New to Scifi? Some Recommendations Review of
Turtleduck Press and Hidden Worlds
First of all, I apologize for the snow if it’s bothering you. I am physically incapable of ignoring the option to put falling snow on any website. Complaints may be taken to the Landsquid. Bring Cheez-Its with you. The Landsquid loves Cheez-Its.