welcome to blogosphere..

A belated welcome to blogosphere to Vetti and Heath. Who, with their regular and focused postings are kinda putting me to shame…

SF in a science fictional world

Warren Ellis recently said is his post Flying Frogs And Crashed Rocketships

I share a conviction with Steven Shaviro, whose most recent book was CONNECTED, that we live in a science fictional world. Not the one everyone expected, of course no jetpacks. But good science fiction, challenging science fiction, is never about the future we expect. Sf has never been about predicting the future. Its been about laying out a roadmap of possibilities, one dark street at a time, and applying that direction to the present condition…

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..NASA and Google to Bring Space Exploration Down to Earth..

from NASA NASA and Google to Bring Space Exploration Down to Earth NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces. As the first in […]

..A Head For Detail..

from fastcompany.com A Head For Detail Gordon Bell will never forget what I look like. He’ll never forget what I sound like, either. Actually, he’ll never forget a single detail about me. That’s because when I first met the affable 72-year-old computer scientist at the offices of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Research Labs, in Redmond, Washington, he […]

..NASA wants permanent moon base..

from CNN.com NASA wants permanent moon base NASA’s plans for returning people to the moon — an objective called for by President Bush in 2004 — includes establishing a permanent outpost that would be used to prepare for a manned trip to Mars. The moon base would be at either the north or south pole […]

blog upgrade

Just spent a nervous afternoon upgrading this to wordpress 2.0. Seems to be working fine, with only a little tweaking required to some hacks I’d made. Hopefully, this will reduce the massive amount of spam I’ve been getting.

..Space mirrors could create Earth-like haven on Mars..

from New Scientist Space Space mirrors could create Earth-like haven on Mars Mirrors in orbit around Mars could create Earth-like conditions on a small patch of the planet’s surface, according to a NASA-funded study. The extra sunlight would provide warmth and solar power for human explorers, but some experts say the mirrors may be hard […]

Very. Short. Stories

Rachel inspires a writing challenge

..Hitch hike to Mars inside an asteroid..

Burrowing inside an asteroid whose orbit carries it past both the Earth and Mars could protect astronauts from radiation on their way to the Red Planet. The idea is being investigated with funding from NASA…

The Committee to Nuke Elysium

we're gonna blow up your space thing later