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Reality beyond the speed of light

July 30, 2021

If faster than light travel will ever be possible, what would the experience be like? Years ago I decided to perform the special relativity equation for twice the speed of light and beyond. Time, space and distance all took on the square route of -1 as a factor, this number is referred to in math … More Reality beyond the speed of light

Daily Thought-Fetch: The distance we’ll go to please our dogs.

July 16, 2021

Thought of the day. There are no easy, simple answers, just the illusion of easy answers. For example — Fetch. I threw a ball to my dog who was anxiously waiting 6 feet away from me. How far did the ball go?  The simple answer is 6 feet, yet that answer fails to take into … More Daily Thought-Fetch: The distance we’ll go to please our dogs.

Using images in social media to grab attention

July 2, 2021

Most social media posts garner more attention if they are accompanied by an eye-catching image. They are even better for our purposes if they are genre specific. These are some recent images that I photo-manipulated from public domain sources. They will be added to posts where I want to get a science fiction idea or … More Using images in social media to grab attention

Can capitalism survive interstellar space travel and colonization?

June 25, 2021

Thoughts by R.W. Van Sant As corporations are growing ever more prominent in the space industries, it becomes necessary to ask if capitalism that allowed them to amoas the wealth required to mount an interstellar mission, can capitalism itself survive the journey.  Are the laws, morees, and customs that allow capitalism to thrive resilient enough … More Can capitalism survive interstellar space travel and colonization?