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 video of the lunar eclipse for those who missed it Scifi/Fantasy Win a Phin and [...]

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 to lie on their backs and watch lunar eclipses out the skylight while they chat [...]

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 against Grisham.  I have never read anything by him and so do not have any [...]

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 Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010 First Evidence of Other Universes Found (!!) Possible Ice Volcano [...]

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 this a lot.) First Carbon-Rich Planet Found (Trekkie!Me wonders what class of planet this would be.) [...]