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  • A War of 1’s and 0’s

    The war Russia has brought to the Ukraine is everything horrific about war–– that one person’s life lost is one too many. War is sorrow and fear, the roar of jet-craft overhead, the sound of explosions from artillery and missiles heard everywhere. But as wars evolve they seem to be more contained, with fewer deaths––…

  • I’m Living In Fiction

    if I had told myself, back when I was in my early teens (pre everything) that I would one day be able to step outside my back door and look up to see a space launch on a weekly basis–– yeah… I would believe it, because I was such a SciFi geek then and now––…

  • The Metaverse is my little oyster?

    And so it begins… again. After reading Neal Stephenson’s, “Snow Crash“, (pre internet), the 1992 Sci-Fi that coined the Metaverse–– I had such hope for virtual online tech. I was thrilled when SecondLife.com arrived and the creators (Linden Labs) stated using Snow Crash as their blueprint. In the beginning it was very much like the…

  • LOOK UP!

    Not since the 2006 movie, Idiocracy, has there been a good parody of where we are today (Politically, Socially, Environmentally, Economically, etc.). Watching Don’t Look Up –– as much as I thoroughly enjoyed the humor of this movie–– I found myself cringing at scenes that were a little to close to home. The casting was…

  • Follow The James Webb Telescope

    With a very smooth and successful launch on Christmas day, The James Webb Telescope is on its way, traveling 1,000,000 miles from Earth, where it will slowly unravel over a two week period, calibrate the mirrors and run through various configurations, while cooling down to -230 C so there is no heat interference gathering the…

  • Nothing says I love you more than a fence

    I think this is a great use of tech (Halo collar), which replaces your underground electric fence with wireless GPS—a fence you can take with you. Absolutely brilliant! Imagine, going to a park or beach, pulling up the app and drawing a box on the screen and off your dog, cat, leopard, etc., goes staying…

  • Is this the death of Humanity or something else?

    Half of you may be alarmed by this technology, that we are nearing the end of humanity.  And why wouldn’t you think that way?  I mean isn’t this what we authors of Sci-Fi write about–– our dystopian replacements? Fortunately, I do’t think it will pan out that way. After a decade of studying animal physiology,…

  • The Pandemic is child’s play compared to this….

    Q: Solar flare is to CME: A: As dog is to cat. B. As muzzle flash is to cannonball. C. As bow is to arrow. ANSWER: B – Muzzle flash is to cannonball. I don’t ever recall seeing this question on my SAT, but, like it or not, we, and I mean our brother and…

  • Kindle Vella – A new way to bring writers and readers together

    Amazon has launched a new platform called Kindle Vella. Unlike traditional Kindle eBooks, Vella is a platform for writers and readers to share feedback – one episode at a time. The Vella platform offers readers the first three episodes for free. To unlock additional episodes requires an investment in tokens, but from what I have…

  • Second Space Tourism company on-line.

    Blue Origin’s Sheppard Capsule mission a success. Having watched both the Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin tourist missions, I think, as a tourist, I would choose Virgin Galactic over Blue Origin for a ride into space; there is just something about the civility of Virgin Galactic’s approach over Blue Origin’s. One thing Branson knows is…