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  • What Can “The Music Man” Tell Us About Writing?

    Have you ever seen the musical comedy “The Music Man”?  Either the stage production or the movie?  At least one movie channel on DirectTV, a TV provider through the internet, […]

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  • Speed Redefined

    Last week in my post on this website, I blogged about the vast distances between star systems and how difficult it would be to travel between them.  It’s a contention […]

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  • The Superintelligent Species

    In this post, I want to continue, in a more limited way, from the post I made last week, about traveling the universe, or at least our Milky Way galaxy.  […]

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  • The Other Guys Out There

    I’ve noticed recently several postings on social media questioning why haven’t we heard from intelligent beings from outer space.  The question has so often been asked, if we are capable […]

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  • Crewed or Crude?

    I’ve decided to not like the term “crewed” when referring to a spaceship that has human beings in it.  Granted, the term is now used as a replacement for the […]

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  • Choosing a New Book

    How do you go about choosing a new book to read?  Do you go to a bookstore?  Borrow one from a friend?  (And never give it back?)  Check one out […]

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  • A Review of the Book “Inner Space” by Jakub Szamalek

    This is a review of the book, “Inner Space,” by Jakub Szamalek, with the translation from Polish to English by Kasia Beresford.  The book takes place largely on the International […]

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  • A Couple of Notes About the Artemis Project

    I just have a couple of comments to make about the Artemis project that NASA has developed to return astronauts to the surface of the moon.  First, humans haven’t been […]

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  • The Logic of Other Worlds

    As I was watching on television a few days ago one of the first three Star Wars films to be made (they’re now numbered 4, 5, and 6) I kind […]

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  • Is Outer Space Real?

    I still have lots of questions.  Like, what is outer space?  Is it real?  Does it actually exist?  Now, I’m defining “outer space” as all the emptiness outside all the […]

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  • Movement

    As I mentioned in my post of two weeks ago, I said I had a lot of questions to ask, and I thought I’d ask a few of them today.  […]

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  • A Few Questions

    As a scientist and a virologist of absolutely no repute whatsoever, I have an inordinate tendency to ask questions about science, virology, science fiction and perhaps a few other phases […]

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