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The Hamsternaut

How NASA is Honouring the 75th Anniversary of Daisy the Heroic Hamster. Los Alamos, NM (USA), 1944 — It was war time, and a collaboration of Nazi and American scientists were turning the German V-2 missile into a vehicle to reach space. But the dangers of space travel were unknown. Twelve years before the Soviet […]

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“Hello?” “Tamara? I’m in trouble. But just listen, and it’ll be fine. Okay?” “Ollie, what? What are you—?” “Just listen.” Oliver was gasping between his words. Panicked. Scared. “They want money. Bitcoins. You have to send it right away or they’ll hurt me.” A different man came on the phone. “Did you hear that? Twenty […]

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Going Under

This is an early-draft excerpt from 550AU Buried in Stone Hand over hand, he trusted the line and primary light, the headlamp, to lead him through obscurity. The water chilled as he rounded the overhang and headed vertically, up the stem, and he felt the resistance of the inflowing current. Silence bled from walls he […]

Along the Shattered Edge

Modified 2k-word excerpt from 550AU Buried in Stone — Nel’s story of the time she was most scared. I was supposed to take some visitors down to the edge–to the ice–to show them the animals that come around during spring breakup. Walruses and seals. Maybe even a polar bear. It would’ve been my first time […]

Okanagan Man on Sci-Fi Mission to Write His Way Home

While We Scramble to Save The Great Barrier Reef, Earth’s Oldest Rainforest Vanishes Nearby

https://www.sciencealert.com/right-next-to-the-great-barrier-reef-earth-s-oldest-rainforest-faces-an-equivalent-crisis?fbclid=IwAR27Gw5-NYhkIgQDiSu8112CUijJ-W2-gzahECRo-gzTiyaMA-J1d8yjnk0

Cherokee texts written backwards to speak to the Earth

https://cosmosmagazine.com/social-sciences/deep-in-a-cave-cherokee-texts-still-have-much-to-teach

What’s a lava tube?

It’s a cave made when the top layer of a lava flow cools while the insulated lava beneath keeps flowing out, leaving a hollow tunnel. Lava tubes can form both above and below ground.

College Students Hatch Nuclear-Powered Magnetic Plan to Protect Marsonauts from Cosmic Rays | Space

A similar concept to Taiyo’s MONSTAR-X magnetosphere shielding.

Quotes & Proverbs

A selection a found relevant to Tribulation, some more than other, but all interesting. (For Japanese proverbs see the previous post). I see Earth. It is so beautiful. Yuri Gagarin (the first words spoke in space) Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur […]

Japanese Proverbs

Some Japanese proverbs I found relavent to Tribulation, not that I necessarily agree with them. Some are certainly adhered to in modern Japanese society more than others. Your thoughts? The nail that sticks up is hammered down. A tiger dies and leaves his skin; a man dies and leaves his name. A fool is only […]