Greetings readers! You may or may not know that frequently, one or two of Writers of the Future contest finalists are selected to appear in the anthology even through the didn’t win, per se. It’s a high honor, because it basically means the contest judges thought they were pro quality, even if another story edged…
My Huffington post peice on how to know if you’r emarrying the right person. Why rockets aren’t launched from mountaintops: Forbes Why haven’t any women been to the moon–Newsweek
Whoa! I DID NOT know this. Back in the day, NASA operated a number of Apollo Program related simulators at Langley. One of them was this bad boy, the “Lunar Excursion Module Simulator (LEMS).” LEMS was rigged up to bear 4/5ths of the weight of a test Lunar Lander to support lunar landing simulation. They…
Our intelligence is an emergent properly of an electromechanical system—our brain. If nature can produce an intelligent brain, we can produce an intelligent brain. There is no magic involved, and we already have a handle on much of what it invovled. The only question is, what will that brain look like, what will it value,…
*Even to the most jaded, practical minded. Asked recently on the Internet: Why is the U.S spending so much money on NASA given that it is impractical and does not generate cash flow to sustain itself? Because much of what NASA does isn’t immediately practical or capable of generating a self sustaining cash flow. Government…
Someone recently asked, “How can I convince my dad that Apollo 11 went to the moon?…He thinks later missions may have gone, but that Apollo 11 was faked just to meet Kennedy’s goal and beat the Reds”. Simple. The Russians were watching. And listening. The only way to convincingly fake a transmissions from the moon…
How a visit to a Houston area grocery store help reform post-Soviet Russia.
I was recently asked about this pair of images, suggested by moon hoaximonkians that the whole Apollo program was one big load of bull, as real and Donald Trump’s hair: “The flags in these two shots are suspiciously similar…These side-by-side comparisons reveal the startling fact that BOTH flags are billowing positively towards the camera…blah blah,…
The media has been all abuzz today with amazing “revelations” of alien music heard by the crew of Apollo 10 on the dark side of the moon and “classified” until 2008. Really? Got a source for that guys? A source other than Fox News or the Interwebs? Cause I do, and it’s not classified, it’s…
Welcome friends and readers, lend me your…er..eyes! Say hello to freshly minted Writers of the Future winner, Julie Frost. Stuart: Congratulations Julie! Tell the good folks a little about yourself. What got you into writing? Julie: I used to write a lot in high school, but got out of the habit in college. I didn’t…
