Mars | Mars
Mar.08.2013
...I'd be the first human being to plant his boot on the red sands of Mars.
I idolized Neil Armstrong as a child, dreamed of joining the space program, exploring strange, new worlds with Captain Kirk and his Vulcan first officer...
Okay, so I had trouble discriminating between reality and fantasy....
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Mar.20.2012
We have sent so many probes to Mars. I have to wonder about a planet so dry and an atmosphere so filled with Carbon Dioxide. I think of the story of Easter Island, and how man destroyed what was once a paradise not unlike Hawaii.
Imagine, if you...
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Mar.15.2012
One of my favorite movies is Black Widow with Debra Winger and Theresa Russell about an FBI agent, who is more of a geek than a field rep, and a woman who changes her appearance to trap and marry wealthy men and then kill them without leaving a trace. Her favorite poison, I believe it was methadone...
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Jul.22.2010
The endless rows of bottled water...... Why? What have we done? Why can we not drink the water that was first meant for our drinking? What happened.
These questions I have so often asked myself. I think of our explorations of the red planet we now call "Mars." I wonder, were we...
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Jul.19.2010
There's a certain picture that captivates me every time I look at it. It's what you might call a professional landscape shot - a photo of a rocky cliff with an arid desert plain stretching far into the distance behind it. Jagged fawn brown rocks litter the ground, matching the rough cliff side and...
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May.31.2010
If you did not look at the fruit, you would think it was all about love. Now David Bellingham, a programme director at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, says the fruit was overlooked and so was the subversive message in Botticelli’s painting:
“This fruit is being offered to the viewer, so it is...
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Jan.29.2010
An Obama administration insider told the Washington Post today that "New York is out" for the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the so-called mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
The decision, by feds, to try Mohammed and his other friends currently held at Gitmo in a federal court as opposed...
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Dec.11.2009
I was addicted to the television show Life on Mars: Jason O'Mara, Harvey Keitel, Gretchen Mol, Michael Imperioli, Lisa Bonet. Life on Mars was a credible period cop show, a futuristic science-fiction thriller and something of a current social commentary. I'm still addicted to it. But since it was...
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Nov.13.2009
The universe is suddenly very wet. With the discovery of water on Mars and now on our nearest heavenly body, the moon, it seems that what was once impossible has become very possible: life elsewhere.
We know that Earth is constantly bombarded by meteors when we look up into the night sky and spot...
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Oct.21.2009
I've never tried it before, but the idea of tackling a story in the world of science fiction is now becoming more than an idea. I found a place yesterday that is looking for short stories and if they accept the one I'm writing, will sell it as an ebook on Amazon. So I began writing a story...
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