For the curious reader of science fiction (scifi) and fantasy
Another email from Lexi in Jordan, this one typed on a borrowed laptop, rather than a phone: In addition to staggering around on donkeys and camels and getting supremely sunburned, I’ve been enjoying AMAZING food and extreme hospitality. Everyone here … Read More
We got an email from Lexi, which she apparently typed on a borrowed cellphone! Here’s some of what she reported: I’m in Jordan!!!! It’s day three and a half. I have hiked through Petra, survived driving illegally (there are speed … Read More
The gold rush has officially begun: the mining of the asteroids. Science fiction writers have been predicting it for decades.* Now some seriously hard-hitting billionaires and technical people are joining forces to make it happen, through a privately funded initiative … Read More
Well, that’s poetic license, because I’m not sure if she’ll actually see the Jordan River—but my older daughter Lexi took off this afternoon for ten days in Jordan, traveling with some other folk from our church. They’ll be staying with … Read More
Discovery takes wing one last time, for the Smithsonian. Ben Cooper (Launch Photography)/ Astronomy Picture of the Day
Thank God.
Congress is right now considering future budgets for the funding of our space program, and it’s got me extremely worried. The Obama administration has proposed deep cuts, especially for planetary sciences. This is crazy, stupid, and short-sighted, and I call … Read More