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Decisions: A Vignette by Torn MacAlester
Decisions Y+13 Nils heard Katie enter the room as he finished typing the letter and sent it to the printer. He’d been using the back bedroom as an office ever […]
Torn’s Science, Technology, & Science Fiction 1–7 May 2023
Science Fiction and the Drake Equation I started thinking about one of the classic authors of science fiction, and the setting he created for some of his stories. I often […]
Torn’s Science, Technology, & Science Fiction 24–30 April 2023
Redundancy Seeing SpaceX’s prototype starship explode after launch reminded me of the necessity of redundancy in launch systems. I think back 10 years when over a short time span when […]
Torn’s Science, Technology, & Science Fiction 17–23 April 2023
Fabulae Lunae: 1. Thunder Moon Tussle Available now at Amazon.com: Thunder Moon Tussle (kindle edition) Nils Carmike, a fallen from grace astronaut turned smuggler, forges a new life on the […]
Torn’s Science Fiction, Technology, & Science 2–16 April 2023
Fermi Paradox The Great Filter The Fermi Paradox creates an interesting dilemma from science. What is the filter that seems to be preventing conclusive evidence of alien civilizations? We have […]
Torn’s Science Fiction, Technology, and Science Fiction 26 March — 1 April 2023
Panspermia Something interesting occurred in the late 1960’s as part of the Apollo program. The uncrewed probe Surveyor 3 was landed in the Ocean of storms in 1967. Part of […]
Torn’s Science Fiction, Technology, & Science March 7–25, 2023
Fusion Why is fusion so important? There are many answers. One is that it enables many items from science fiction. Space exploration itself is revolutionized with many different schemes for […]
Torn’s Science Fiction, Technology, & Science 28 February — 6 March 2023
The Drake Equation The Drake Equation is an equation that gives an estimate of the number of radio capable civilizations in the galaxy that could be detected using conventional radio […]
Torn’s Science Fiction, Technology, and Science 20–27 Feb 2023
Thunder Moon Tussle is a novel that would never have happened if I had followed my original plan. I was writing another novel and decided that I needed a backstory […]