Category: Science
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Space Warfare: the present and future
As a science fiction author, I’ve got a particular interest in current and future space operations. Since I also write Military Science Fiction, that interest is a bit more sharply defined. So I’ll address a couple of points regarding combat in space, and then leave a couple other areas open for your interpretation. The first…
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Eagles and Jet Engines
I distinctly remember when two NASA astronauts visited my elementary school. They showed off bits and pieces of space technology, talked about how bright a future we’d have (where all of us would be afforded the opportunity to go to space) and generally made a lot of kids really excited. Like some other things, the…
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It’s SCIENCE!
I still remember the time I first got in an argument with a teacher. It was in a science class in middle school and the teacher was explaining how some simple physics would work in some rockets we were making (2 liter coke bottles with water and compressed air). Things went pretty well in the…