Did you know that there are a lot of “planets” and Pluto-like objects out there at the edge of our solar system?
Bad Girls in Outer Space
Feb 5th, 2007
Orlando Sentinel
A NASA astronaut is being held without bail after police say she attacked her rival for another astronaut’s attention at Orlando International Airport Monday.
Lisa Marie Nowak drove more than 12 hours from Texas to meet the 1 a.m. flight of a younger woman who had also been seeing the astronaut Nowak pined for, according [...]
Pluto
Aug 25th, 2006
What did George Bush know and when did he know it?
What efforts are bing made on behalf of the many refugees from Pluto created by this decision?
Shouldn’t NASA be disbanded? After all, they’ve operated for decades telling us that Pluto was a planet. NASA lied! Pluto died!
Those of us who supported Titan for planethood are [...]
Pluto Kicked Out of Solar System
Aug 24th, 2006
Pluto has been demoted, for no good reason.
The Sky Is Falling!
Jun 15th, 2006
NASA
There’s a new crater on the Moon. It’s about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old.
NASA astronomers watched it form: “On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon’s Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy—that’s about the same as 4 tons of TNT,” [...]
Somewhere along the line, NASA lost the dream. You know the one. Boldly going where no man had gone before.
Nit picking by small minds. Government bureaucrats with no imagination. Something killed the dream.
In less than a hundred years, the Vulcans come. That’s the Star Trek mythos, and, you know what, why not?
Space flight is a [...]
Sixteen Minutes from Home
Feb 1st, 2003
Sixteen minutes from home. And, now, called to a different home. A Valhalla where they fly free, forever.Space is the Final Frontier, and these were our best, sent out towards the stars. They knew the danger and the risk. And went anyway. Generations unborn will owe these heros much. The dreams that we see in [...]
Check news for futher info.It appears the space shuttle Columbia may have broken up on reentry this morning over Texas. News video on Fox News shows multiple contrails. Contact with presumed debris should be avoided as they may be heavily contaminated.
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Star Trek and Our Manifest Destiny
Feb 3rd, 2003
When you look at the major Star Fleet characters in all the Star Trek shows and movies, most are American if they are not alien. I realize not all, but most. Star Fleet is located in San Francisco. An American, Zefram Cochran, invented our warp drive. And Kirk’s sexual harrassment of Yeoman Rand was pure [...]
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