The Girl In The Wreckage

The Girl In The Wreckage The place was a mess. Steel girders floated past as I stood on the wreckage of the space station orbiting Mars.  I had to quickly duck for cover a few times to avoid being hit by one. Mangled and mutilated body parts of the now dead occupants...

Where Did Gold Come From?

We constantly hear talk of ‘striking it rich with a gold deposit’, especially from the gold-rush days of the 1800’s. But where did gold come from? How was it created? And why is it so prevalent on Earth when Earth formed 3.8 billion years ago? As a...

Space Warfare

  How effective is warfare in space? Can lasers and missiles really hit moving objects from a distance in space? We have all read about it and seen it in science fiction books and movies. Ships firing at each other from huge distances and somehow directly striking...

Habits

Our lives are filled with habits from when we wake up in the morning to when we retire for sleep. Humans can’t function without them. We’d be so preoccupied thinking about every little task we do, we would only achieve a fraction of our day’s...

Protostar Jupiter

Could Jupiter collect enough matter to initiate fusion and become a star? Scientists say it would need to increase in mass by 1300 times to start glowing from nuclear fusion, the increased pressure from gravity raising the core temperature to the ignition point for...