Category Archives: Space

Ray Bradbury RIP

June 8, 2012 – 11:02 am

In 1953 Ray Bradbury wrote FAHRENHEIT 451 at a rented room at UCLA’s Powell Library. The total cost for rent and typewriter was $9.80. The title was in reference to the temperature at which paper ie a book is combustible. “In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that […]

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The Farthest Planet

June 6, 2012 – 3:44 pm

I don’t care what they say. Pluto is still a planet in my books. And the funniest character in the Disney universe this side of Goofy.

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Venis in Transit

June 6, 2012 – 10:40 am

The Planet Venus had two names for the ancient Greeks; Hesperus was the evening star and Phosphorus was the morning star. The Maya called the second planet from the sun Noh Ek or the Great Star” as well as Xux Ek or the Wasp Star. Most people in the modern age identify the Evening Star […]

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Why 2015

May 3, 2012 – 10:54 am

We have a lot of work cut out for us, if we want to achieve the 2015 in BACK TO THE FUTURE II. Our only chance would be for alien intervention and the ETs are still waiting for the GOP to sign a realistic immigration bill before risking arrest by La Migra ie immigration police.

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Enterprise Coming To Earth

April 27, 2012 – 11:09 am

NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101 was named the Enterprise by President Gerald Ford in response to a letter campaign by Trekkies seeking honor for mankind’s first space ship. STAR TREK fans should have been more patient, because the Enterprise was an experimental craft designed without engines or a thermal heat shield for testing in the […]

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