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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...
Why is it Difficult to Land on the Moon
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...
Independent Artificial Intelligence
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 what Chat...
Commercial Exploration
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...
Osiris-Rex Returns
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...