The Great American Eclipse: Part I – The Plan
This coming Monday, 21 August, the United States will see something that it hasn’t seen in nearly a century. A total solar eclipse will cross from coast to coast, entering […]
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We Are Who We Are
This last weekend, the United States put on a horror show display of intolerance in Charlottesville, Virginia. White Supremacists and Nationalists protested, and when counter protesters started turning out, things […]
Fire and Fury, Silence and Peace
There are days when you just can’t get over the headlines. When you can’t ignore them, can’t look away. Can’t wash them out with a video of cute baby animals, […]
Back to School, For a Lifetime
Late last winter I started looking at opportunities to use the tuition assistance that the Air Guard provides. Despite some less than stellar undergrad transcripts, I applied to a couple […]
One Small Sentence, One Vital Task
“The search for life’s origins, evolution, distribution, and future in the universe.” One phrase, a small group of words forming a short sentence in a 58 page bill. Yet that […]
May 21st
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by […]
We Need a Moonshot
I was born just a few months after the return of the last human crewed Earth mission to the Moon. Apollo 17 launched on December 7, 1972, it’s lunar module […]
Good Reads, 2016 Edition
This is a little late, but figured I’d still push this out. 2016 was a fascinating year in many ways, most of which I’d rather not rehash right now. For […]
Freedom and The Press
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment or religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom or speech, or of the press; or the right of […]
To Boldly Go, Part II
Back in October I wrote a piece discussing the next generation of space exploration. Specifically human crewed exploration, and the shift from public to private sector missions and advancement. I […]