The vast majority of moons are small, with masses far less than Earth, or even Mars. Because of this, most moons have minimal atmospheres compared to Earth, too thin to breath. Some larger moons have barely enough air for Martians[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The Norse told tales of the rainbow bridge. Many religions have rivers we take into the otherworlds. And now we have hyperspace. You know many describe it as a river of gravity? It flows from star to star, binding the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Peloran Treatments worked real well, and they didn’t charge a red cent. The pharmaceutical companies howled of course. They demanded the FDA ban the drugs and they bowed to the people who owned them. But the FDA didn’t have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the basic tenants of stellar geography is that friction causes heat. In the same way that one rubs their hands together by pulling one’s muscles to warm them when cold, the tectonic plates of a planet or moon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve had stories of people going to other worlds and coming back for millennia. For the ancient Norse, it was traveling the rainbow bridge along the world tree to the worlds of the Aesir and the Elves. For the ancient[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Peloran Treatments promised to make us all healthier and to live for centuries. They performed a five-year study and it worked perfect. No side effects. Old men and women on their deathbeds stood up and walked away after a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many people wonder how moons of gas giants so far outside the Goldilocks Zone of a star can be habitable themselves. The secret is that gas giants are truly massive, comparable more to stars than to their lesser, terrestrial brethren. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is interesting that so many of the words we use now are derived from the science fiction of a time when space travel was rare or non-existent at all. I have often wondered where those ideas came from, how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I really do love the worlds we live in. There are so many, and all of them different from every other. Whenever I get bored with one, I jump in my ship and check out another one in a few[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The defense grids of our warships have always been built of many systems. Devoted to keeping our ships alive against enemy attack, they include electronic warfare grids, active point defense grids, passive stealth grids, and more. When the Peloran gave[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…