Sometimes you have to stand up for what is right, and sometimes you simply must say when someone is wrong. Because sometimes there is no one else who will do it. You will earn enemies this way, and some of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Killing off the whole gang in the first episode of a new season would have been bad form for Twilight’s creative team. It is therefore not a surprise that they did not cooperate with Solo. What surprised the viewers was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pre-Contact warships used a mix of various forms of lasers, projectile weapons, and rockets as their primary armaments. Most lasers did very minimal damage compared to modern versions but were very accurate. Heat shielding was cheap, and therefore warships could[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People sometimes ask me how I decide what to do when time is tight. The simple answer is that I usually don’t. Decide at least. The complicated answer is a bit more…well…complicated. There is right and there is wrong. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight season three started with a fade from black to a man walking back and forth in a small room, footsteps echoing off the walls. He spoke unintelligible words with pauses to show he was having a conversation. Finally he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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