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Win Zenn Scarlett PLUS “Name Your Own Star” Gift Package! $80+ Value!
Hey, how’d you like to be able to name your very own, actual, up-in-the-sky star? Plus: have your star’s totally cool new name launched into space? Plus-extra-plus: win a print or eBook copy of Zenn Scarlett? (That would be the new … Continue reading
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Most revealing post… ever: Zenn Scarlett Cover Art
The image for the cover of Zenn Scarlett materialized in my inbox recently. I’m seriously stoked about it. Simply… breathtaking, as in breath… taken. A number of blogs were in on the reveal & have been dishing up some tasty … Continue reading
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NOW we’re gettin’ somewhere. Tractor beam… ENGAGED!
OK, so don’t go and open your interplanetary tow-truck service just yet. But this is still some pretty cool tech. The lab-coated humanoids at Scotland’s University of St Andrews (pretty sure Scotty’s lineage was in on this) and the Institute of Scientific … Continue reading
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17 billion earth-size planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Cheers, 2013!
Some juicy numbers to start the new year with, courtesy of the Kepler planet-sniffing satellite, which is doing a great job, exceeding expectations and deserves a raise. Recent data sez Kep has found reasonable evidence for no less than 461 … Continue reading
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ALIEN LIFE PERCOLATING UNDER SUPER-EARTHLY LIQUID-METAL UMBRELLAS?
Now then, the premise of the article that prompted this post is a bit of a stretch. A bit of a gi-normous not-bloody-likely stretch, actually, even for an exo-life-presumer like me. But I had to post it primarily because … Continue reading
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Thanks, existence. Well done.
… aaaaaand…. here’s the weather report from Titan. The weather. On Titan. Just an amazing thing to casually run across online while having morning tea. That’s all.
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T. Rex meets Klaatu. Fisticuffs ensue.
So…here we have…the Dinosaurs vs Aliens Motion Comic. Hmmm. It’s Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld and comic book great Grant Morrison’s unlikely mash up of what has to be two of the surest bets in the realms of pop-culture/kid-in-all-of-us … Continue reading
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Alien contact: “Howdy, let’s be friends!” or “Oh my, these human things are naaaasty.”
A number of soft, easily-captured-immobilized-broasted-and-eaten humans with a vested interest have been thinking, furiously it seems, about the down-in-the-weeds details of how our first contact with an alien intelligence might go. And some of our sage-est of sage elders (as … Continue reading
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Cast members of this show in it for the long run. Long as in pretty much forever.
A Dutch company has been formed to send volunteers to establish a settlement on Mars by the year 2023. The company’s recent press releases inform us that the colonists’ adventure would be filmed and broadcast back to Earth … Continue reading
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Launch your brain into “The Living Cosmos”
The Living Cosmos by Chris Impey Cambridge University Press 393 Pages, Paperback Edition Updated 2010 I write fiction that speculates about life on other planets, and while my attention to scientific nuts and bolts is far from exhaustive, I take … Continue reading
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