Have you ever found yourself almost colliding on a pavement with someone walking straight towards you set on a collision course, gaze downturned?...
07:23
Solar Sail Craft to be the First to Reach Alpha Centauri
Solar sails used for propelling space ships across the vast distances of space have always been a firm favourite of science fiction stories. I first...
03:33
Harry Potter – A Masterclass in World Building
This week, at long last, and having heard so many glowing reviews from friends, especially other authors, I finally got to experience the Harry Potter...
23:06
To Travel is to Live
I have always felt a pull at my heart to travel the world and experience far flung places. In fact I’d go as far as to say part of me lives to travel...
03:31
A New Chapter In Aviation – Airlander 10 – A Hybrid Airship
In the 1920s, when commercial aviation was still in its infancy, the main method of crossing the Atlantic Ocean was by steamship and ocean liner....
01:48
Fractured Light – A Ten Year Creative Journey
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes when you start...
13:09
A Permanent Moon Base May be Realised Within Ten Years
“We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress...
10:17
Grid Parity – A Revolution That Will Change Power Generation Forever
Here’s a date to put in your calendars…2020. Why? Because, based on the more conservative projections, that’s the year that countries like the...
06:32
Book Whispering – When Your Story Starts Speaking to You
“Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.”
― C. Elizabeth
There’s a phrase I coined a number of years ago – book whispering...
23:54
Riding a Gravity Wave Across the Universe
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein
Over the last two weeks you have probably picked up on...
22:34
Is There Anybody Out There?
Here’s a question for you…what if we’re all alone in the galaxy? What if there is no one else out there across the vastness of space?
The famous...
22:52
To Gaze into the Future
“In science fiction we dream.”
– Ray Bradbury
Science fiction has existed in one form or another in our world for a long time. The history of...
08:12
The EmDrive – Next Stop the Stars
I don’t know about you, but when I watched the film Interstellar, for someone who grew up during the space race, it pulled at my wannabe astronaut’s...
02:56
Beam Splitters and Vampires
“The window of life is mirrored. And tinted. And shattered. And borrowed.”
― Jarod Kintz
At night in a room with the light on, if...
08:10
Farewell Major Tom
"Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."
– Franz Schubert
This week on the 10th January,...
07:30
The Dawn of a New Era in Space Flight
“Some people see things that are and ask, why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, why not?”
― George Carlin
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