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November 29, 2011
Comet Garrad
One of the objects we spent a lot of time viewing over the 2011 summer was a comet called Garrad. It spent the summer traveling through the northern skies slowly getting brighter. With the computers driving the 24″ at the … Continue reading →
November 24, 2011
The Pilgrims Were Aliens
The Pilgrims were aliens who brought to us the alien technology of stuffing. I saw it on an episode of South Park while Stan, Kyle and the boys were watching the History Channel. They even had photographic evidence. Therefore, it … Continue reading →
November 22, 2011
Timer
Laid up with some virus my husband was kind enough to gift to me last week, I ran across the movie, Timer, on Netflix. A little bit sci-fi, a little bit romantic comedy, it turned out to be an enjoyable … Continue reading →
November 18, 2011
Game of Thrones and Then Some
I read Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin over the summer. It took most of the summer, as it's a really long book. I must have liked it because I have all the sequels except for the newest … Continue reading →
November 15, 2011
Stephen Kings Dark Tower at HBO
So, although the movie for Stephen King's Dark Tower series stumbled into obstacles and is no longer with Universal, it seems HBO is producing it for television. That's good news. HBO has done a great job with other series of … Continue reading →
November 11, 2011
Battle: Los Angeles
I'm not an action film kind of person. I tolerate many of them because another person in my household enjoys them. With that said, I wasn't expecting much from Battle: Los Angeles. I was pleasantly surprised. This movie grabbed my … Continue reading →
November 8, 2011
Orion Eludes Me Again
I think I'm just not meant to see Orion this year. I stayed to see it on Saturday, Oct. 1, the last night the observatory was open. Ten minutes before it rose high enough, clouds took over the sky. Two … Continue reading →
November 4, 2011
Replay by Ken Grimwood, Science Fiction Books
Replay by Ken Grimwood uses the science fiction plot device of the time loop – an instance of time played over and over. Usually only one or a few characters are aware of time replaying itself. Replay uses an adult lifetime as the … Continue reading →
November 1, 2011
Is the Space Opera Dead?
Here in the US, The Syfy channel cancelled a Battlestar Galactica sequel, Blood and Chrome before it aired. Maybe it was for the best. Caprica didn't make me want to see any more of the BSG universe. With Blood and … Continue reading →
October 28, 2011
Coronal Mass Ejection
CME on Oct. 21, 2011 Caused Red Aurora in U.S. The SOlar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured this "coronograph" – so-called because the images block the sun, and only show the sun's atmosphere, or corona. The coronal mass ejection (CME) that … Continue reading →
