Science fiction authors used to say we would use something better when we went into space, but three centuries later we still use rockets. Yes they are more advanced than what propelled our Apollo missions, but the German scientists that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
HALO stands for High Altitude Low Orbit. Basically it means anything above the atmosphere but below the really stable orbitals. Of course there are disagreements on where space starts and the atmosphere ends. The United States Space Force still says[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight season two ended with cameos of almost every Dixie character driving north to join in the real life Battle of Kansas City. It took place in the shattered remains of the computer grid, and was filmed on location in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For a hundred years we expanded into the void using rocket engines that an Apollo Astronaut would have recognized. Our ships and stations spun to generate gravity. We spent weeks accelerating up to interplanetary speeds and using planetary slingshots to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People sometimes ask me what HALO drops are like. Well, I’d like you to envision a bunch of grown men screaming like children. Cries for God’s helping hand to keep them from going splat at the end. OK, now that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight started season two as a diligent but disaffected individual. She’d lost one of her best friends, and that made her question everything she’d learned. Dixie became the anchor that kept her on our side, but the season nemesis Solo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What most people who grew up after Contact fail to realize is that Pre-Contact spaceships generated gravity by spinning small sections of the outer hull around the central spindle frame. Most of the ship was in zero gee unless they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They started The War. Well, the Shang did but the Chinese were quick to pile on. And of course there are the reports that they knew about the Yosemite Strike before it happened. They doubly deserved what happened if that’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight’s second season nemesis was the recurring Rogue AI. He wore a different dapper suit every episode, donated by a local Texas company, and the show made certain to show a close up of their distinctive logo at least once[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our first starships were spindly, fragile things. They were a slender needle nearly five hundred meters long designed to pierce the wall between normalspace and hyperspace. Fuel tanks and crew quarters surrounded the central spindle with little room for anything[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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