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Next Year Andromeda

December 15, 2018 – 12:12 am

Andromeda is the spiral galaxy 225 million light years away from our star system. Four billion years from now the two galaxies are predicted to crash together. None of that will be there to witness that event. When I was a kid in the 1950s, Marvel Comics came out with a story NEXT YEAR ANDROMEDA. […]

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Mars Versus Mount Washington

January 6, 2018 – 6:58 pm

The atmosphere on Mars is a hundred times thinner than that of Earth. NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has measured summer temperatures as high as 70 Fahrenheit or 20 Centigrade at the Red Planet’s equator, but as soon as the sun sets, the temperature can plummet to -100 F and -175F is not usual in the […]

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Sex In Space

July 23, 2016 – 11:03 am

In 2002 I wrote a screenplay IN HEAVEN ABOVE in which a former Soviet province saved itself from bankruptcy by holding a lottery with the prize of being the first man to have sex in space in their revamped space shuttle. I sent the scenario to a number of film companies. Rejection followed rejection followed […]

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Half of NASA’s 2016 Astronaut Class

January 31, 2016 – 11:12 am

NASA announced that half of its 2016 class will be women and that the team will be training for a future Mars mission. This is quite an accomplishment, especially considering the state of NASA’s space fleet. NASA no longer has a Space Shuttle And neither does Russia.

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Iceless

June 7, 2013 – 10:02 pm

NASA scientists have extrapolated an image of an Antarctica minus its thick ice mass. The polar ice cap has been melting over the last century. Even global warming fanatics aren’t predicting that outcome, which would result in a 60 meter rise in the Earth’s sea levels. One more thing none of the research suggested that […]

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