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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 challenges, otherwise....
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...
Paradox of Wormholes
If wormholes large enough for humans to traverse exist, what could we use them for? Now, I don't profess to be an expert on General Relativity or Quantum physics, so take what I say here with a grain of salt. A bit of imaginative thinking, maybe. We know it would take...
Cosmic Consciousness
What is consciousness and where did it come from? These are two questions people have been asking for millennia. I recently saw a news article where scientists believe consciousness might be part of an all-encompassing cosmic consciousness. Is it possible the universe...
Marooned in Space
Two astronauts stranded on the international space station have been in the news recently. The Starliner transport module, developed by Boeing, was stricken with propulsion issues leaving the two people on the station with no means of returning to earth. It got me...
Building in Space
Space X recently completed their first successful flight of their gigantic Starship spacecraft. That got me thinking of how we could use it to ship larger payloads into space. This would help construct larger space stations and other structures faster. That then got...
The Ninth Planet
Is there a ninth planet out there beyond Pluto? Scientists have speculated such a celestial body since the 1850's. And yet no one can find it. Unexplained movement of the outer planets Jupiter and Saturn led astronomers to believe more planets were out there. They...
Gatacus Todd – Retirement
Gatacus Todd - Retirement Gatacus Todd gazed at his desk in the Police Department Homicide division on Xerxes or what he hoped was the last time. After almost 23 years of detective work, he was finally throwing in the towel and retiring. He had enough of the abuse...
Crime in the 26th Century
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...