Konstantin’s cable & Google’s tethered space station
Posted on November 27th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
NASA artists impression of Konstantin’s cable Surprisingly it was not a science fiction writer who came up with the idea of tethering a space station at a point on the equator via a hugely long cable, but a Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895. A real stretch for anyone’s imagination the idea has lasted, [...]
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Beautiful time lapse view of Earth from the space station
Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
No words… just beautiful… http://vimeo.com/32001208
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[VIDEO] Video Glasses Stream Everything You Do
Posted on July 25th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
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Perry Rhodan: most successful science fiction ever
Posted on November 10th, 2010 by Tim Aldiss
I was amazed to read in Wired Magazine that this series of Science Fiction novels that has been running since 1961 has been publishing novella’s (that’s at least 17,500 words) EVERY WEEK! I mean that’s a 49 years x 52 weeks x at least 17,500 words = a lot. Here’s Wikipedia’s entry: Perry Rhodan is [...]
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