http://www.popsci.com/fly-over-methane-lakes-saturns-moon-titan?con=TrueAnthem&dom=tw&src=SOC&utm_campaign=&utm_content=5855923fb8a9fe000626c52e&utm_medium=&utm_source=Forget the charges of corruption in the French presidential campaign-in-the-ass. Forget Mr. Duterte's Trump-like-me-me--MEDIA game set. And forget that Michael Pence is a closeted ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/john-glenn-dies.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=image&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top- ( Read more... )

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/new-gas-dwarf-class-alien-planets-revealed-n120601

I've met my share of gas dwarves but they were mostly in fandom. 

These people are so behind the original timetable that science-fiction writers set down in the 60s & 70s when I was "growing up". After the Apollo program, the first of the recessions hit and life went straight to the crapper. I'd expected to have my own personal computer by the time I was out of university. Instead, NYC went bankrupt, I became ( Read more... )

Earth from Space is a wonderful half-hour YouTube video to just leave on in the middle of the night.  Just sitting and watching it, I was able to just free-associate and pull up the word for aurora {Apal'a (n.)} Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and relax.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feomZ5INRVU&list=TLGree0gURB3cZr-DlVofay-ToaH_dNiep

My answer to the above-titled SF Forum topic @ LinkedIn.com:

There was a popular SF novel called Stardance by Spider Robinson about a zero-G dance troupe that set up a studio in orbit. Perhaps the time has come to do that for real. A Zero-G studio would become a destination of its own as travel access improves because there would suddenly be a ( Read more... )

As we all knew would happen one day, our original Mercury Astronauts have passed on one by one, now leaving only John Glenn.  The coolest thing about Scott Carpenter was that he was able to have a second act as an explorer of the sea after he'd gone to space, the first Astronaut-Aquanaut. He made The Future seem more tenable, at least until the ( Read more... )

Just watched a NASA TV special with my computer  through my phone line on my flatscreen TV, celebrating the first full (Terran) year of exploration by the Mars explorer Curiosity. The 21st century is SLOWLY catching up with my expectations.  I want to celebrate with one of those hamburgers made of stem-cell created beef, so my vegetarian friends ( Read more... )

akawil read my Post "Joyeux Jour De Lune" and said:
"Write it up as a petition on petitions.whitehouse.gov! I'd sign it."Well, here is  a new petition I created on We the People, a new feature on WhiteHouse.gov, and ask for your support. Will you add your name to mine? If this petition gets 100,000 signatures by August 24, 2013, the White House will ( Read more... )

 Too bad NASA hasn't heard my song, "Penta-Polarity".  I really think it would help.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/science/faster-than-the-speed-of-light.html?hpw&_r=0&pagewanted=all