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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Metric System Revisited

    I’ve posted about the metric system before, and now I want to revisit the topic because I think it’s important to the United States.  The US is one of very […]

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  • Real Time

    As the title of this post says, I’m talking about “real time.”  It’s a term used to refer to something that takes place immediately.  It takes place so fast you […]

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  • Time

    What is time?  I’ve seen a few posts on the internet lately about “time.”  Questions have been raised about whether time exists or not, and what it is, and if […]

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