May 19
Partially spearheaded by recent comments from Stephen Hawkings and George W. Bush –just using their names in the same sentence makes me feel dirty– there is a movement afoot to finally get to the moon. The reason is simple. We’re really fucking this planet up. Nuclear war, terrorism, climate-warping — you name it, we’re wrecking …
Dec 14
Canucks were supposed to build the European Space Agency’s Mars Rover but it looks like Ottawa has, in its Oz-like wisdom, decided against it. And I don’t think we’ll see our Prime Minister, Stephen ‘The S&M Cowboy’ Harper, jump in to save the program. Anyway, our Rover would have had a better robotics package than …
Dec 07
They’ve found evidence of water on Mars. I, for one, think that they’ve also found life. In August NASA and SETI sat down and starting thinking about how to inform the public that life exists off this planet – specifically on Mars. (I covered it here.) They concluded that the information should be released in …
Dec 05
NASA has finally announced plans for a moonbase. I wish I could tell you how long it took them to take the obvious next step into space but I can’t count that high. The first moon landing was in 1969 and it’s almost 2007 now. I ran out of fingers and toes to count on …
Sep 28
Virgin Galactic revealed what the inside of its Spaceship Two will look like. And guess what? It looks fucking awesome. I’m pretty “oh golly” about this for a guy who’ll never be able to afford a trip on this beautiful contraption. But a boy can dream. It’ll be taking off in about a year. Here’s …
Aug 03
NASA is thinking about how to tell us that there’s life on Mars. (If they happen to find life on Mars.) They don’t want another Martian meteorite story on their hands. In that case the info was leaked to a $200 an hour hooker by a Washington insider. I miss the Clinton years. These days …
Jun 22
Renowned cosmologist and cyborg, Stephen Hawking has recommended that we leave Earth in order to survive. And this is actually controversial. It seems that the idea hadn’t occurred to a lot of people. But it makes sense. The more planets you have, the more you can afford to blow up. Just look at Battlestar Gallatica. …
Apr 27
Once I thought I was on a flying carpet. It turned out that I was on acid. And I was wrapped up in a rug that was being thrown out of a third story window. But that’s another story. A rather dull one about gambling debts and ignoble men without an ounce of forgiveness in …
Apr 05
SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) is now looking for light signals from aliens as opposed to their radio broadcasts. Makes sense to me. I’d rather see the lobster people’s Monica Belluci than listen to their Rush Limbaugh. But this reminded me of the point that French astronomer Luc Arnold made about a year ago. …
Jan 13
Russia has just about the best space program in the world. And, in another example of forward thinking, they have decided that space will no longer be a dry zone. Although they’ve met with puritan opposition from NASA, Russian authorities are making the common sense argument that astronauts should be given a booze ration. They …
