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LinkedInON Friday, Nov 4, 2011 an event occurred which passed relatively unnoticed in the media, as six volunteer "astronauts" stepped outside of a facility in Moscow in which they had spent the last year and a half, simulating a manned mission to Mars: Moscow \'Mars mission\' ends after 520 days The project was a joint mission of the Russian space agency and Europe's space agency, and included one Chinese, one French, one Italian, and three Russian volunteers. The article specifically notes that a mission is planned for sometime in the mid-2030s, after a "return" to the Moon. So what's … [Read more...]
MEANWHILE…BACK ON MARS (EVENTUALLY)…PART ONE
July 14, 2011 By
"Well, just when you thought the whole space program was going down in a blaze of glorious apathy, we're given this little tidbit from NASA, and I hope you're paying attention: Honing in on landing site for new Mars Rover Let's stop and notice again what was just said. First, there's this: "Curiosity -- NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mobile robot -- will investigate the red planet's past or present ability to sustain microbial life and will examine ideal soil and rock sample targets for collection and analysis." Then, there's this: "NASA's new Mars probe, a $2.5 billion, … [Read more...]
A NUCLEAR BLAST ON MARS?
April 7, 2011 By
I was amused to read the following article, and I'll let you read it first to see why, before I comment myself: Natural Nuclear Blast on Mars Yes, you read that right, a nuclear (well, technically, it would have to be thermonuclear) blast of one million megatons. That's the energy release equivalent of 1,000,000,000,000 - that's one quadrillion - tons, or 2,000,000,000,000,000 pounds, or two quintillion pounds, of TNT. And all of this was natural according to Dr. John Brandenburg (whom this author has actually met). Well, of course it is. After all, our own sun puts out prodigious … [Read more...]
JOINT RUSSIAN-CHINESE-EUROPEAN SIMULATED SPACE MISSION
February 8, 2011 By
You may have missed this one - largely because our wonderfully informative media in this country probably didn't even mention the story on television or radio (or if they did, they probably did late at night, running it only once, popping it into the usual nonsense of infotainment and hysteria mongering that the American media does so well): Mock Mars Mission \'Arrives\' at Red Planet What interests me here is both the time of this mock mission, the no-expenses-barred attitude towards it, and the space-politics realignment heralded by this European-Russian-Chinese effort. Clearly, the … [Read more...]
TWO BOOKS ON MARS AND CYDONIA
February 2, 2011 By
This week I acquired three books on the Mars-Cydonia anomalies, an older but nonetheless still important work by Graham Hancock called The Mars Mystery and a newer release (2008) by Dr. Mark Carlotto, The Cydonia Controvery, and Dr. John Brandenburg's Life and Death on Mars: the New Mars Synthesis. These books are valuable additions to anyone's library who wants the history of the early stages of research and investigation of the Mars anomalies, for in both Dr. Carolotto's and Dr. Brandenburg's case, both men were involved with Richard C. Hoagland in the very earliest days of the Mars … [Read more...]
THE PUZZLE OF “THE PUZZLE OF THE SPACE PYRAMIDS”
January 16, 2011 By
Yesterday I finished a couple of big projects - or at least put them into some sort of "rough draft order" - and I decided to goof off and read a book. The book of choice, in this case, was an old science fiction yarn called The Puzzle of the Space Pyramids by Eando Binder, a nom-de-plume for Alfred Binder and his brother Otto, both of whom wrote a series of sci-fi novels. In this case, the book was quite a yarn, and entertaining in its own way. Written first as a series of short stories that were serialized in the late 1930's and early 1940's, the stories were "fixed up" and reprinted as a … [Read more...]
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU SAY “HMMM”: NASA’S VIKING PROBE BACK IN THE NEWS…AGAIN
January 5, 2011 By
Well, NASA's Viking Probe - yea that's the one that went to Mars and photographed the Face - is in the news again: http://news.discovery.com/space/viking-mars-organics-experiment.html Sort of makes one wonder, doesn't it? … [Read more...]
CHINA, RUSSIA, AND MARS
January 2, 2011 By
Here's an interesting little tidbit: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-china-explore-mars-russia-year.html Interesting, since last year China and Russia also agreed to drop the dollar as a basis of their reciprocal trading.... … [Read more...]