by jwegener | Jun 27, 2024 | 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...
by jwegener | May 15, 2024 | Space
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....
by jwegener | Apr 11, 2024 | Short Story
 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...
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...
by jwegener | Sep 28, 2023 | Short Story
John’s SciFi Space Short Story Possessed Part 12 While Moloch schemed his escape, Cain wallowed in his despair in the fathomless well of his consciousness. He dared not let his thoughts leak out to the monster inside him, although he couldn’t tell the limit to...
by jwegener | Sep 7, 2023 | ftl
 Sammy Stormtrooper Say… Check this book out! Learn More Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Like this:Like...
