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...

     It's a terrible thing to write, but few things really excite me these days. I don't worry too much about feeling that way since...

You know we live in interesting times when legitimate reports involving UFO's hit the mainstream media and they aren't the top stor...

One of the cruelest jokes ever performed on humanity is its shared delusion of significance. Human cultures are filled with lies ...

Just because I do not want to write about the ongoing crimes of the Orange Buffoon, climate change and Australia being on fire, or th...

One of the few advantages I had growing up in a semi-rural area of coastal South Carolina was the relative darkness of the night sky....

 Forever on the lookout for science news stories to turn me away from the usual human-created crap, I have been in proverbial and lit...

 My interest in ancient history first developed while I was taking Western Civilization in high school. The textbook was a remarkable w...

Pondering metaphysical concepts, without regard to crazy ass theories and ideas most normal people either discount or ridicule, is so...

Not to get weird, because that ship sailed long ago, but as I was surfing the YouTube channels Sunday afternoon one of the guys I watc...

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

Unbeknownst to the majority of Americans a NASA spacecraft named Dawn is even now slowly approaching the dwarf planet Ceres prep...

One of the joys I had growing up in Georgetown, South Carolina that extended well into the 1980’s was the ability to go outside and ...