by jwegener | Feb 29, 2024 | Science, Virgo, Zodiac Series
 Crime in the 26th Century In my book, Virgo, I describe an assassination where the assassin injected nanites into the bloodstreams of the victims. These nanites used the victim’s own blood as a feedstock to manufacture the toxin that killed them, the nanites...
by jwegener | Feb 8, 2024 | Space
 Why Is It Difficult To Land On The Moon? Have you ever wondered why so many moon landers crash? What makes it so difficult to land, especially an unmanned craft on the moon or even Mars? It’s an interesting question and one I’m not sure I can adequately answer, but...
by jwegener | Jan 25, 2024 | Science
 Independent Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI), or generative AI has been receiving a great deal of press over the last few years. But is the fear it produces justified with the technology’s current development? Lets step back and examine...
by jwegener | Jan 18, 2024 | Cosmology
 Commercial Missions to the Moon I notice talk in the media about private companies undertaking missions to land on the moon. Recently, Astrobotic and NASA launched a mission to the moon with instruments on a lander called Peregrine for experiments on the lunar...
by jwegener | Oct 26, 2023 | Cosmology
 Osiris-Rex Returns with Asteroid Rock A capsule containing a sample of asteroid rock collected from the asteroid, Bennu, returned to Earth a couple of weeks a go. NASA sent a probe to the asteroid Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid, in 2016. It arrived there at the end...