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Killer Robots!

Saturday, December 4, 2004

Hooray for science-fiction become reality!
I almost never post a picture, but…. But, this is just way, way too cool! This picture is from an article on Wired News about new robots being used by the military. In fact, this bad boy, dubbed the Talon, is ready to ship to Iraq in [...]

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Early Man Earlier than we thought?

Monday, November 22, 2004

Here are two stories to make you think.
First, there’s the story about the archeological dig in South Carolina that may provide evidence that early man migrated to North America as much as 25,000 years earlier than originally believed. It could change everything we believe about the early migration of primative humans. At first [...]

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Review: The Chanur Saga

Monday, July 26, 2004

Wondered where we’ve been this Summer?
Well, besides changing jobs, I’ve been reading. One of the books I read was The Chanur Saga, though I didn’t read it all at once. This is actually an “omnibus” of the first three books in the Chanur series. There are, to my knowlege, two more. [...]

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Starve for Immortality

Thursday, March 4, 2004

No, I’m serious.
My darling wife posted a link to the Calorie Restriction Society on her blog and I thought I’d share that with the regular reader of my own blog. (I know there’s at least one of you…) These folks are convinced that if a person restricts their caloric intake, they can radically [...]

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Travelling without a Stomache

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

Can it be done?
They used to say that an army travells on its stomache, meaning that supplies and supply lines, especially food, determine how and why an army moves. But, what can you do about that? Well, according to this article on Wired News, DARPA is trying to make a soldier that doesn’t [...]

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Space Mining?

Tuesday, December 9, 2003

I say, “Yes”!
And, apparently, so do a group of scientists and researchers. According to this article on Space.com, mining specialists, space engineers, and energy strategists who attended the Space Resources Roundtable V held at the Colorado School of Mines thought that mining space was a good investment. Of course, they acknowleged that there [...]

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The Book of Origins

Monday, August 25, 2003

1:1 In the beginning, there was nothing but God.
1:2 The Great Void was without form and concealed in Darkness.
1:3 And God said, “Light” and He burned as a great Flame.
1:4 And God was pleased with the Light and made it separate from the Darkness.
1:5 And God called the Light “Day” and the Darkness “Night”. [...]

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More Work = No Fiction

Tuesday, June 3, 2003

Notice how bare the Fiction cupboard is?
Well, there’s a reason. My day job has kept me pretty busy. And, as much as I love this site and writing, my day job is what pays the mortgage and puts food on the table.
You can see what my “other” life is like here.
And you can [...]

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