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Tag Archives: Space Elevator
Interview with James Yee
I am a long term Space Tracker. I’ve worked at Goldstone, JPL, and I’m now at the White Sands TDRS tracking facility in New Mexico. I’ve been tracking satellites for over 10 years now. Besides that I’m just one big … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged 3D modeling, 3D modelling, big stompy robots, cancer, Consumed, EVE online, fathers and daughters, gamers, Gozer the Carpathian, Gozer the Gozerian, Innocence Lost, Jenner, kickstarter, Liftport, Merge, NASA, Sarah, Sharyn Yee, Space Elevator, spacecraft, Tabletop Adventures, The Big Bang Theory, Vigo the Carpathian, webcomic
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A Story About Sex
First, my ROW80 update, because it is a huge pet peeve of mine to click on someone’s link-up just to find a long rambling post about lettuce or something and the ROW80 update is an afterthought at the end, or … Continue reading
Posted in ROW80, Writing
Tagged #ROW80, Abandon, Aerosmith, anthology, deadline, Felt Tips, Get LF8D, In the Closet, love in an elevator, Pikes Peak Writers, Pikes Peak Writers Conference, Point of View, PPW, Precipice, sex, sexuality, Space Elevator, To the Earth and Back, voyeuristic AI
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SciFi Q of the Day: Off-Equator Space Elevators
SciFi Question of the Day: Logic dictates that a space elevator be tethered from a point on the equator to a point out in geosynchronous orbit. But if you tethered it someplace that wasn’t on the equator, it would still … Continue reading
Posted in SciFi Q of the Day
Tagged anchor the elevator, ascending node, cross-track force, descending node, equator, equatorial nations, geosynchronous, geosynchronous orbit, hockey stick, inclination, International Space Elevator Conference, International Telecommunications Union, isec, isec.org, Jason Hough, Jason M Hough, Liftport, Liftportal, LiftPortal Space Education, lightning, Space Elevator, space tether, tether, The Darwin Elevator, Thoughts on space elevators
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Interview With Homer Hickam
Homer Hickam is probably best known for his classic memoir Rocket Boys which was made into the 1999 movie October Sky. He is also a bestselling and award-winning author of more than a dozen other books including his military history … Continue reading
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Tagged biolastic, Boyle's Law, Cape Hatteras, Crater, decompression sickness, Dinosaur Hunter, Distinguished Service Award, Fillmore County, Garfield County, gillie, helium-3, Homer Hickam, Homer Hickman, Josh Thurlow, Liftport, NASA, October Sky, Olympic torch, Paco, Rocket Boys, scrag, scrapes, Sky of Stone, Space Elevator, St. John, The Cat Who Meowed in Space, The Keeper's Son, Torpedo Junction, Vietnam Vet
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Back on the Wagon…Wait…or Off…
One week later and I still haven’t figured out the analogy. Maybe I’ll pull a Lucas and re-edit this post three months from now when a really witty anecdote comes to mind. But things are better. After several updates in … Continue reading
Posted in ROW80, Writing
Tagged #ROW80, A Round of Words in 80 Days, Jack and the Beanstalk, Michael Laine, Space Elevator, wagon
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Interview With Charles Justiz
A graduate of the of the United States Air Force Academy and a former United States Air Force Officer, Charles Justiz has logged over 16,000 hours on over 100 different types of aircraft during his career. Prior to his retirement from NASA in 2010, Dr. Justiz … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged aerospace engineering, Air Force Academy, Apollo 13, Artificial Intelligence, Aviation Safety, Dayna Steele, DC-9, ionized plasma flows around charged spacecraft, KC-135, Machine Based Intelligence, Mass Fraction, NASA, plausible science, rocket science, Ron Howard, rotovator, Space Elevator, space shuttle, Specific Impulse, successor to the Space Shuttle, suspension of disbelief, Tom Hanks, University of Houston, USAF, Vomit Comet
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Tower Building
I find myself with an odd surplus of blog ideas at the moment. I was musing this morning about how good erotica is a story about a person’s (or several) sex life. This can be just as important and interesting … Continue reading
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Seeking Other Author’s Advice on Contests
My writing update for the week: I remembered what happened last week regarding my ‘finish the short stories you start within a few days’ goal, and vowed not to make the same mistake again. I started a story last week, … Continue reading →