Danes to launch rocket Thursday 9/2/2010 now
From Space.com: A private Danish rocket built by volunteers to launch one person into suborbital space could see its first test flight as soon as Thursday with a dummy pilot riding aboard. If successful, the rocket should carry its payload up almost 19 miles (30 km) into the upper atmosphere. The project could pave the [...]
Fortean Frankensteins
Recently, Dr. Craig Venter has made the claim of “creating life” by constructing a bacterium from dead material. While not a 9 foot tall monster, the artificial bacterium has the potential to become the first practical biological nano-particle that could have industrial and medical applications. But Venter isn’t the first to claim the mantle of [...]
Is Space Colonization Still Just Fantasy?
Space colonization has been a theme (or meme?) in literature for over 150 years, probably thousands of years earlier than that really (Book of Enoch). Anyway, humans have dreamed of traveling to alien worlds in the heavens for a very long time, it isn’t a recent phenomenon. Dr. Stephen Hawking is only one voice among [...]
NASAWatch: Should Congress Design the Next Big Booster?
From NASAWatch: Frank Sietzen, Jr.: Consider how many space initiatives the United States didn’t pursue in the past half century. A fully reusable launch vehicle. A 20-person expendable space station. New heavy lift boosters. A permanent lunar colony. The Orbital Space Plane. NERVA and Prometheus. An outpost on Mars. In fact, there have been more [...]
Danish Rockets: Or Those Incredible Young Men in Their Flaming Machines!
Move over Elon Musk and Burt Rutan. Here are a couple of adventurous Danish inventors who are willing to put their money, and their lives, where the rubber meets the road so to speak. Or to put it more exactly; The Amazing Flying Danes: It might not look much. In fact, it looks practically suicidal. [...]
Star Child Update
The Star Child, the skull of a supposed “alien” child, does seem to have anomalous DNA on the father’s side of the family. Lloyd Pye explains: ] Proof of genetic engineering 900 years ago? The more time goes on and empirical evidence such as DNA from the Star Child, and I’m sure others will crop [...]
Hawking Makes Waves At SETIcon
It seems that Dr. Hawking’s statements about nomadic ETIs being voracious hunters has created quite a stir in the mainstream science community. Especially the crowd Uncle Seth Shostak is in charge of at the recent SETIcon in California: Even if humanity could reach out to an intelligent alien civilization, scientists are polarized over whether we [...]
On the Cusp of Wormhole Technology?
Wormhole technology, or any kind of faster-than-light space travel is considered tin-foil hat fantasy with current technology. But Gary S. Bekkum of STARstream research interviewed a young Iranian physicist in May of this year who just might’ve discovered a way using present day tech of producing wormhole technology and they discussed the ramifications of said [...]
The US Taking Up UFO Study? Fuh-getta-bout It!
When it comes to UFO Disclosure, people leave their brains at the door. For decades folks have waited with baited breath, hoping for each new Presidential administration will take up the Disclosure Banner, and give the word that aliens have been on Earth for years and admission into the Galactic Federation is at hand. Well, [...]
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The Politics of Fear
The 21st Century is one of William Gibson’s dystopic tales. Or maybe Philip K. Dick, I can’t tell. Anyway, one can’t deny the fear and anxiety that permeates the air like a thick cloud of smog. Couple that with technology accelerating toward a Technological Singularity that seems to want to enslave all ordinary folk, well, one can see [...]