Category Archives: Space

The Nearest Planet

June 8, 2023 – 9:44 am

Back in 2019 I met my friend’s son in the Meat Packing District. Alfred was a business graduate of Princeton. Magna Cum Laude. His parents considered him genius at 21. His father wanted me to introduce him to a big-time investment banker to whom I sold diamonds back in the days of plenty. It was […]

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Venus Versus Mars

June 8, 2023 – 9:39 am

I was a UFO movie fanatic as kid. My friends and I thought that the Martians were ugly, but the invaders from Venus would be tall blondes in bikinis. We much preferred Venus to Mars. It was the planet of love and over the years I became a Star Trek devotee. All the series were […]

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Aurora Borealis Maine July 4, 1971

July 4, 2022 – 6:26 am

On the 4th of July in 1971 John Gilmore, Mark McLaughlin, and Tommie Jordan and I left the South Shore of Boston to holiday in Maine. A large store at the New Hampshire border sold fireworks. John purchased $20 worth of M-80s and various rockets. The four of us stopped at my grandmother’s cabin on […]

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The Touch Of The Stars

August 11, 2021 – 8:05 am

As a child of the 1960s I lived in the suburbs south of Boston. Summer nights were filled with silence; no cars, no voices, no music. Every house was a tomb and the deep darkness often found a pre-teen boy stealing out the back door to spread a blanket on the ground, strip off his […]

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The Great Invisible Wall Of China

August 11, 2021 – 3:25 am

Over my years of traveling back and forth to Asia I’ve flown into Peking on more than one occasion. Teachers around the world had taught that man-made barrier against the barbarian horde was visible from low orbit. This claim was based on the English antiquary William Stukeley writing in 1754 about Hadrian’s Roman wall, “This […]

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