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Astronomy is the oldest known science on earth. The discovery of the fastest rapid spinning star may be to some "yawn" fodder. But this was by the European Southern Observatory, not McDonald Observatory (US). Things that make you go: "hmm!"
Plus, I used it as a double entendre mention of by box turtle (artist conception kind of reminded me of her shell).
Watch it here:
2D Superconducting...Islands: I feature this because I had the privilege to meet Dr. Nadya Mason at the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists in Austin, Texas this September. Her work in nanoscale devices is Nobel Prize material. It's interesting to note: blacks have won 13 Nobel Peace Prizes, and one Nobel Prize in Literature (Toni Morrison). NONE in the hard sciences.
Dr. Mason has my enthusiastic backing, and her own considerable acumen...keep up with her name!
I wanted to gather some additional info relating to sci-fi conventions/exhibitions catering to Atlanta.
Good to see a group such as BSFS that is actively engaging in promoting sci-fi.
Enter Kenneth Neal (you can call me Ken): Age, 29, an activist/journalist, scholarship-winning poet and sci-fi novelist.
The premise of this work could be considered the fusion from the likes of Frederick Douglass / Stan Lee / Harvey Milk / Karl Marx.
I've been active enough by doing my part to promote social, cultural, and class destruction awareness with my blog.
http://evilforalltime.blogspot.com
(when you see Karl Marx, you know you've reached the right destination)
The first of three of my flagship titles has been crafted within the Supernatural/Horror/Action category, dealing with global and bizarre anomalies connecting our world to brutal creatures of dwelling within Purgatory. Elements of "Poltergeist", "Cloverfield" and "The DaVinci Code" are heavily prevalent throughout.
TUNNELS: The Darkest Nexus available on e-books everywhere.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tunnels-neal/1106039353?ean=2940013326286&itm=1&usri=tunnels%2bthe%2bdarkest
Thank you for your time.
If you have any questions after viewing my work, feel free to let me know.
-Ken Neal, Atlanta, GA
Facebook, "Ken E-FAT"
http://evilforalltime.blogspot.com
Contributor @ Political Fail Blog:
http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/09/ken-neal-writer.html
2nd Planet on the Right, Straight on Til Morning: well, we know it's "2nd star on the right..." (etc., etc.). It was fun to see SyFy take a classic tale like this and give some plausability to the "magic" of essentially travel through a wormhole. After all, Arthur C. Clark said:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Akwaaba my AFRICAN people. NHWI trailer Dec 26 2011.
Umoja (Unity) day of kwanzaa. LOVE RESPECT
Akwaaba my AFRICAN people. NHWI trailer is coming
Dec 26 2011. Umoja day of unity. LOVE RESPECT
It’s time for me to flash you again. Enjoy! http://yvonnenicolas.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/flash-fiction-friday-5-on-the-job/
Ode to Science and vicariously, science fiction, largely inspired by science.
In the Zeitgeist, there seems to be a disdain for expertise, intelligence, assigning such to "elitism," or in the words of Senator Jim Demint of South Carolina (in clear, political dog whistle fashion): "uppity."
They probably would have HATED Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Talents" had they read it:
Realize: she wrote this before the millennium, before the moment of now...may she rest in peace. I feel poetry as well as fiction when it is insightful, almost prophetic, to the human condition...TGP
Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler © 1998, pages 7 – 8 paperback:
FROM Memories of Other Worlds
BY TAYLOR FRANKLIN BANKOLE
I have read that the period of upheaval that journalists have begun to refer to as “The Apocalypse” or more commonly, more bitterly “the Pox” lasted from 2015 through 2030—a decade and a half of chaos. This is untrue. The Pox has been a much longer torment. It began well before 2015, perhaps even before the turn of the millennium. It has not ended.
I have also read that the Pox was caused by accidentally coinciding climatic, economic, and sociological crises. It would be more honest to say that the Pox was caused by our own refusal to deal with obvious problems in those areas. We caused the problems: then we sat and watched as they grew into crises. I have heard people deny this, but I was born in 1970. I have seen enough to know that it is true. I have watched education become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that it must be if civilized society is to survive. I have watched as convenience, profit, and inertia excused greater and more dangerous environmental degradation. I have watched poverty, hunger, and disease become inevitable for more and more people.
Overall, the Pox has had the effect of an installment-plan World War III. In fact, there were several small, bloody shooting wars going on around the world during the Pox. These were stupid affairs—wastes of life and treasure. They were fought, ostensibly, to defend against vicious foreign enemies. All too often, they were actually fought because inadequate leaders did not know what else to do. Such leaders knew that they could depend on fear, suspicion, hatred, need, and greed to arouse patriotic support for war.
Amid all this, somehow, the United States of America suffered a major nonmilitary defeat. It lost no important war, yet it did not survive the Pox. Perhaps it simply lost sight of what it once intended to be, then blundered aimlessly until it exhausted itself.
What is left of it now, what it has become, I do not know.
Like the Walking Google: it was meant as a compliment, but the scary connotation (to me, at least) was the lack of apparent need to memorize anything beyond the superficial concerns of 13 - 19 year olds fixated on technology, but unwilling to take the time to master, or advance it. Sadly, most considered offline reading "boring" as well.
Longer Lasting Lasers: I don't know if at our perception range as humans we can notice a pulsed versus a continuous laser. However, this is some good information if your fiction requires it as a background.
I actually pulled this off in a high school physics class demo of total internal reflection (though, I'm not sure the kids appreciated it):
Check out this week’s Hump Day Special. Feel free to drop your thoughts after reading. http://yvonnenicolas.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/i-gaze-at-myself/
Much Love,
Yvonne
OK, that's a grip! Obviously, the human species is "below impulse speeds" let alone FTL travel.
However, it is evidence that we're not alone in the universe, and that life is not so unique to our globe.
I just hope they (if there is a "they") survived their own Drake Equation.
Nanoscale Infection Fighters: part of the asset speculative fiction lends is asking not only can we, but should we? I think of Michael Crichton's novel Prey.
1. Name three members of Nomad Squadron.
2. There are two characters answering to the name, The Night Stalker. One on TV. The other in real life. Who were they?
3. This 1979 horror movie featured a scene where a zombie fought wit ha shark.
4. Secret identities revealed. Who are these three characters? Kletus Cassady. Fred J. Dukes. Mac Gargan.
5. This was the weapon used in an assassination attempt against Reinhart Heydrich.
6. Name the members of the Warbound.
7. Astronomers recently discovered a planetary system with twin suns and named it after a planet in this well known science fiction film.
8. This man was known as the butcher of Plainsfield.
9. Secret indentities part 2. Who are these thre characters? Johnathan Crane, Todd Arlis, Cain Marko.
10. It was rumored that Adolph Hitler copied his small moustache from this silent film star.
11. This man used to be Al Capone's boss.
12. Where can you find these villians? Tchernobog, The Enclave, Makron.
13. WHat are the three kingdoms in nature?
14. This man was the only German field marshal ever to be taken prisoner in World War-2.
15. Where is Little Lamp Light?
16. This Toho Studio's monster was a mutation created by micro oxygen.
17. This long time member of the X-Men lost his life in a firey plane crash.
18. This woman was Adolph Hitler's secretary.
19. David Vincent had a hard time getting people to believe that aliens were invading earth in this classic TV series.
20. This coin was often mistaken for a quarter.21. Name the three German generals who committed suicide.22. Where can you find the Arm fighting the Core?23. This man was fired from Al Capones gang because he was too violent.24. Secret Identities part three. Who are these characters? Otto Octavious, Sam Sterns, Morrie Bench.25. WHere do these three characters live? Rigel the 16th, Mr House, Arthas.
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I did not originate the title (just the resuse of the 80s phrase "I kid you not"): Marilyn Monrobot,
I’m so excited to introduce everyone to an extraordinary steampunk author. I’ve seen snippets of the “Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman”and I can’t wait to read it. I love books that are filled with action, interest, and have strong characters of color. Please take a look at this neat interview. Meet Balogun Oyabode Abeegunde. Read the rest of the interview here:
