On Friday, December 22nd, 2017, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenburg Air Force base, near Los Angeles, at around about 5:30 PST (around sunset). This was nothing unusual, but what was usual was the atmospheric conditions, and the fact that the rocket’s contrail caught the sunlight at a...
This is my quick review of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”. A quick review because I don’t have time to do a longer one, and more importantly, to keep things spoiler free. In short, despite all the mixed reviews out there, my opinion is that “The Last Jedi” ranks right...
Turn your volume up as far as you can stand and get ready to place this absolutely awesome music video tribute to the MCU. It’s made all the more awesome by Queen’s “We Will Rock You!” If you’re not already excited about the upcoming “Infinity War” movie, I think this...
The Avengers: Infinity War trailer has just come out! Everything in the Marvel Universe line up has been building to this, from the Iron Man movies, to Thor, Captain America, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and the other Avenger movies, comes the final battle against the arch-villain of...
My steampunk fantasy short story, The Clockwork Horseman, is published and available now on both Amazon and Lulu and it can be found in the anthology Devil’s Armory III. Alas, there does not appear to be an e-book version! Oh well. The story will one day be available in e-book...
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” trailer is out! And wow… It’s a doozy. There as also a good trailer breakdown and analysis on ScreenRant.com, and SyFy.com has one as well.
Launched in 1997 and arriving at Saturn in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission was a phenomenal success, lasting some 10 years beyond its initial 3 year mission. The spacecraft gave us thousands of pictures of Saturn, gigabytes of scientific data, and launched the Huygens probe into Titan, giving never-before-seen footage of...
DragonCon 2017 was the biggest DragonCon ever, with some 82,000 to 85,000 people attending! My wife went to some of the bigger media panels, but I stayed away, sticking mostly to the Science and Space tracks with some excursions to the Sci-Fi Literature track, Star Wars track, and the Writing...
Monday, August 21st, 2017, will mark the first total eclipse to span the entire United States since 1918! That’s a pretty big deal, and if both traffic and the weather cooperate, my family and I will hopeful be in the direct path of totality to see it. Here’s a great...
SpaceX has just launched its 12th resupply mission to the International Space Station, and has succeeded in its second landing of its stage 1 one Falcon 9 rocket on solid ground (instead of a barge at sea)! This is great news, as the better they get at landing their rockets...
