Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is safely in orbit. It took off on time. Here’s the video of the night time launch: Send to Kindle

To be an author, you must first be a writer; and while it’s easy to be an author, being a writer is hard work. Surprisingly, it may be only hard work; that is, while some people certainly have more talent … Continue reading →

To be an author, you must first be a writer; and while it’s easy to be an author, being a writer is hard work. Surprisingly, it may be only hard work; that is, while some people certainly have more talent … Continue reading →

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for launch tonight at 11:28 PM PDT (2:28 AM EDT). The weather is expected to cooperate, with a 90 per cent chance of clear skies. It will be carrying the first part of the … Continue reading →

Video of the launch, yesterday, of the ATV Jules Verne. Send to Kindle

The European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne successfully reached orbit tonight. Here’s a video describing what the ATV does: Send to Kindle

Tuesday morning Lyndsay Hymas, a reporter with the Antelope Valley Press, interviewed me. A photographer from the paper also took a bunch of photos of both me and my book, The Bible’s Most Fascinating People, which of course was the … Continue reading →

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not … Continue reading →

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and … Continue reading →

In case you have excessive free time mixed-metaphorically burning holes in your pockets, check out Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions, where you can compare the sizes of various ships and creatures from a variety of science fictions movies, TV shows and … Continue reading →