Random Brain Droppings

It goes without saying the movie version of The Martian was a brilliant piece of hard science fiction. I was literally in awe of the actor...

  Ever since Netflix began dropping its own movies on the streaming service, its customers have had to put up with a multitude of unadulter...

  One of my enduring curiosities is trying to relate to the people who lived and died in the distant past. There's no limit to my fasci...

  How do you explain the existence of something like Donald Trump? I admit that I am bias but to the best of my knowledge he has no redeemab...

    Arecibo in better days When news footage of the disastrous 2019 fire at Norte-Dame cathedral made worldwide news I was sadden and shock ...

Anyone who has read any of my posts involving South Carolina understands I do not give this state much slack. My overall view of ...

Given the current dangerous circumstances, I'm all for joining forces with less crazy Republicans to oppose Trump. The one thing that ...

 1943-2015 All of us lucky enough to draw a breath makes a mark on this planet and the people we encounter. For better or worse the...

Idle Speculations on Alien Intelligence and the star KIC 8462852.   This is just a personal observation subject to error but as s...

 “It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that...

The Carter Center--An actually reason to be proud. It seems incredible, maybe even highly unlikely given their current practices,...

Wednesday my motley crew took a break from the parks and rested at the resort. Since it was relatively early when I struck out I found a p...

Humans have always been wanderers, even before our particular species appeared on the scene to follow our predecessors out of Africa....