Box office science fiction hit, Guardians of the Galaxy, offers an engaging after-the-credits teaser between the character Taneleen Tivan—The Collector who appears in other Marvel Comics—and two of his remaining, living space explorers: a canine cosmonaut and Howard The Duck. The duck is fictional. The canine cosmonaut not so much. It’s common knowledge to most […]
Archives for June 2015
Extremophiles: Creatures With Super Powers.
I’m often amazed by how much weirder the real world is than the stuff that comes pouring out of the brains of science fiction writers—although, there’s some pretty weird stuff floating around out there, like the questions: Why haven’t we Earthlings discovered that life exists or has existed other places? Where have all the ETs gone? Extremophiles—which are creatures […]
The Ghost Forests of Mars Update
After posting on my google+ sci-fi community about the forests on Mars, several interesting comments and opinions surfaced. I polled the community and asked: What do you think the ghost forests are? Two-hundred and thirty-two avid sci-fiers voted and provided the following results. Evidence of Life 11% Darker cascading sands 23% Frozen carbon dioxide 34% Spider-like channels […]
Freaky Fotos From Mars
Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, once wrote a letter to Corey S. Powell, editor-at-large of Discover magazine, requesting an investigation into the forests on Mars spotted by NASA’s orbiter, Surveyor. Forests on Mars would certainly be a mind blowing discovery for a legendary science fiction writer such as Clarke, well, for […]
The True Horror of the Pacific Garbage Patch. Separating Fact From Fiction.
This is my second time to visit a horror story that—as science fiction as it sounds—is reality. In a lively discussion in my google+ sci-fi community, a commenter argued that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) was a myth. That it didn’t exist. That we’d been lied to. I decided to investigate further. He cited […]