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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]