“A Deepness in the Sky” is actually a loose ‘prequel’ to Vernor Vinge’s “A Fire Upon the Deep“, (a novel about ever increasing “Transcendant” Zones of Thought). Only one main character is consistent with both novels, Qeng Ho (pronounced ‘Cheng Ho’) legend Pham Nuwen, creator of the modern Qeng Ho Fleet. (First paperback edition) I [...]
I caught up on a couple of Paracast episodes yesterday and I found them very enlightening and entertaining. The first one was broadcast May 14, 2009 and it was Gene and Dave’s first listener confab, featuring long-time listeners and forum commenters BrandonD, Dusty, Fahrusha, Schuyler and Skunkape (They use their actual first names during the [...]
From American Free Press: Bilderberg found President Obama a Willing Wilkie at its June, 2008 meeting in Chantilly, Va. near Washington. They were reassured when he chose their boy, Harold Koh, a strong advocate of the U.S. accepting the ICC, as the State Department’s top lawyer. In the Penn State Law Review, Koh wrote sneeringly [...]
More Roswellian reverse engineering? The direct connection between the Roswell debris and the Battelle studies is revealed in a material known as Nitinol. Nitinol is a specially processed combination of Nickel and Titanium, or NiTi. It displays many of the very same properties and physical characteristics as some of the crash debris materials that was [...]
As the world plunges further into economic chaos and war being brought about by the world’s elites (few of which actually realizing they shot themselves in the foot), scientific endeavors funded by tax dollars have either reached a rather dystopian turn, or have gone to research that encourage an inward turning of human interests. But [...]
The blogger IIB has long posted about DARPA and its involvement with Google and its founders to bring about a self-sustained distributed artificial intelligence in order to trigger a Technological Singularity. I used to be a supporter of a Singularity, until I realised that it could make the human species extinct, of which I’m no [...]
Long before the quasar problem arose, though, Edwin Hubble himself was moved to suggest that inflation might not have taken place in the “early” Universe. He thought that new observational data was necessary in order to decide whether it was definitive. In 1947, he was waiting for the new 200-inch telescope at Mt. Palomar to [...]
From Bilderberg investigative journalist Daniel Estulin: Investigative journalist Daniel Estulin, whose information from inside Bilderberg has routinely proven accurate, states that the global elite’s plan to completely destroy the economy and ultimately lower global population by two thirds has stoked fears even within Bilderberg itself that the fallout from such chaos could ultimately result in [...]
Journalist Jim P. Tucker Jr. reports from the latest Bilderberg Conference: DISPATCH RECEIVED MAY 14, 9:30 A.M. EDT Bilderberg luminaries all appeared grim-faced as they stepped from their limos on to the grounds of the Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece. They arrived from the airport in nearby Athens, escorted by police with sirens [...]
Classic Sci-Fi Reviews: “The Forever War” & “Orbitsville”
This week’s classic sci-fi review is Joe Haldeman’s “The Forever War” and Bob Shaw’s “Orbitsville.” Originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction/Fact Magazine in 1974, The Forever War essentially was a critique of Vietnam. But put any “conflict” in it’s place during the past 60 years, it makes no difference. My re-read was a pleasant one and although the premise of interstellar [...]
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