Thank you Majel, for the memories, for the vision, and for helping Gene give us Star Trek. We can all find comfort in knowing in that Majel and Gene are reunited. Here is her obituary from the LA Times. Related posts The Jeffries Tube (0) LOTR indie film: “The Hunt for Gollum” (0) Khaaaaaannnnn! (0)
Entries from December 2008
God Bless You Majel
December 19th, 2008 · No Comments
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The Jeffries Tube
December 12th, 2008 · No Comments
For several years now I have been greeted at church by a pleasant older usher, never dreaming that his brother was a science fiction giant: Matt Jeffries !! Richard Jeffries has written a book about his famous brother. http://www.mattjefferies.com/wmjb.html The book is “Beyond the Clouds” Matt flew a “secret reconnaissance bomber” during WWII, build airplanes, [...]
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Fermi Paradox – All the aliens went dark !
December 5th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Suppose the cosmologists have it wrong and dark matter really is composed of baryons. It’s not like cosmologists have a great track record. Most of their theories have been proven wrong over the past few centuries. Comparing the track record of mathematicians with cosmologists is pretty much night and day. When a mathematician says they [...]
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io9 – What’s the deal?
December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
io9 is a science fiction blog run by Gawker media. They appear to want lots of input, but they also lock people out of adding comments. Why don’t they want comments? Perhaps it’s just me, has anybody been quickly given authority to comment? Related posts Free Science Fiction from Tor (0) Word Usage in SciFi [...]
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