Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Friday, December 29, 2023

7J6CBQ on Okinawa -- And a Translation of a Science Fiction Novel about Ham Radio in China

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  The article about Sergeant Malik Pugh USMC on Okinawa brought back memories from the 1990s. David Cowhig was 73 Magazine's Hambassado...
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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Sci-Fi Series with an Apollo-era Vibe

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Kind of fun.  The Apollo-era and Saturn V stuff bring back memories of 1969 and all that. It is a series that you can watch on Apple TV.  He...
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Saturday, April 8, 2023

Europa -- "Attempt No Landing There."

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As we get ready to send two probes to the Galilean moons of Jupiter, this sci fi movie made its way into my feed.   It is pretty good, and t...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

The (Real) Solar Flare of August 1972 in Cixin Liu's Science Fiction

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  A view of McMath Region 11976 from the Paris Observatory early on 4 August 1972.  I have a vivid memory of seeing -- as a kid -- Aurora fr...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Jagadish Chandra Bose

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Jagadish Chandra Bose (30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) Acharya Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, was a Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist,...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Mars is BACK! 2020 Opposition! Don't Miss it!

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2004  Sometimes waking up a bit earlier when the sunrise is coming later leads you to some interesting things.   It was quite humid ...
Friday, August 7, 2020

Mars: Book Review, Martian Propagation, Martian Moons as VHF Repeater Sites

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In SolderSmoke #224 I mentioned the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.   I found a book review in The New Yorker (see below).   In Re...
Friday, January 4, 2013

Opening Scene of Contact (CQ at the end)

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Mike Herr's video on his use of an Arduino to call CQ SKN made it onto Hack-A-Day  yesterday and provoked some discussion there of t...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Radio Drama about RADIO!

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Dale, W9DKB, alerts us to a radio drama from 1973 that is all about mysterious radio signals from space. Very cool. Thanks Dale. ...........
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