Tranquility Base established.

40 years ago today, three men sitting on top of a controlled bomb flipped off the rest of us on Earth and said “So long suckers. We’re going to THE MOON!” While we’re feeling all smug about our internet and connectivity, we should also remember that it’s been 40 years since the greatest 20th Century [...]

For other rocket nerds out there, I found this article over at RocketryPlanet.com. The builder is Steve Eves who does autobody work and undertook the task of making a 36 ft. scale model of the Saturn 5 rocket. You can then get closure by watching one of the youtube videos of the launch, which goes [...]

Another winning Comics Reporter Sunday Interview, this time with Jim Ottaviani talking about his book with Kevin and Zander Cannon, T-Minus: The Race To The Moon. For some reason I was inspired to write one of those bafflingly cheeky Hollywood Reporter/Variety style headlines. I apologize.

Besides the obvious Stop Killing Trees to Print Comics, of course (we’re only a few years away from that). No, I think other creators and I could make an effort to simply set more stories in natural environments, which most artists prefer to draw. While readers are idealizing larger than life characters, they can be [...]

Newsarama has an interview up today with Jim Ottaviani talking about his upcoming book with (brothers) Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon T-MINUS. It’s about the race to the moon, which I never tire of reading, and Jim has a good hopeful point about the dire things we face today (world economy) and how the space [...]

Maybe it was because we were discussing books here yesterday, but last night I couldn’t get the famous “Time Enough At Last” episode of the Twilight Zone out of my head. Just like the way everything comes to a halt at the studio when we start pondering how to survive in a world populated with [...]

Jim Ottaviani, esteemed publisher of science comics as GT-Labs (and now writer for other publishers such as TOR), is finally wading into the webloggy waters with his new blog that appears to have no proper name. Go see how like other new bloggers he’s horribly self-conscious about starting one, even though it’s practically expected of [...]

-was originally a planet where the last words uttered were, “Okay, fire up the supercollider!” National Geographic has a good article on the supercollider and the God Particle online now. See you on the Event Horizon! *Don’t worry, I’ve run the numbers and this will not create a tiny black hole. It will, however, open [...]

When John Woo’s FACE OFF came out, I thought the whole world had gone mad. Everyone I knew was raving about it like it wasn’t a big steaming pile and even NPR pieces were talking about the premise completely straight like it wasn’t too much to swallow even by Woo standards. They could have easily [...]

Min-ion, really. I got a Roomba for half price from Buy.com, and it’s really cool. It moves faster than I expected, and I like watching it race under a bed or couch to suck out the evil under there. So now I’m suddenly getting closer to my childhood perception of myself with robot helpers. Everything [...]

I almost forgot to happy birthday Sputnik I, pinging away fifty years ago over our heads! And then the Russians proved they could euthanize a dog in the most lavish way possible by sending Laika up there. To which our space agency said “We’ll see your dog and raise you… a chimp.” And the space [...]

Here’s what pops up on my screen when I walk away from my laptop for a minute- a graphic that tries to gives a snazzy visual for all the number-crunching and interpreting that’s going on. That’s right, I host the SETI at Home program, wherein massive data coming from space is shared amongst the personal [...]

Here’s an article talking about a lead that scientists have in the Case of the Disappearing Bees. Which appears to be a virus, that thankfully at least Australian Bees are immune to. I don’t know about you, but this whole bee problem has worried me for a while. Because without pollination, them crops ain’t worth [...]

I neglected to note when the Shuttle Atlantis landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base the other day- congratulations crew! That was a fairly harrowing mission and I’m sure as the landing kept being pushed back, Astronaut Sunita Williams was thinking she’d be the first woman astronaut to stay in space permanently. But they’re all [...]