Pleased to announce that ‘Career Day,’ a story about seventh graders stuck looking at jobs in the future just got submitted to Clarkesworld. You can keep up with Career Day and all my other shorts over at this page. Not much for blogging this week, re-vamped Mike.Sierra.Echo again so I’m hard at work bringing this…
A chance discussion on Mastodon results in new changes to Mike.Sierra.Echo – let’s talk the nutty world of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs)! As you’ll recall, I’m writing a novel where humans build a space elevator in the future – over a hundred years from now. The novel is set in the future for a number of…
Forget astronaut ice cream – Mike Massimino breaks down eating dinner in space for Sci-Friday #177. Turns out, you can get almost everything you want to eat in space. Note that I said *almost* everything – take a look and see what I mean: I picked up on this video because I was doing some…
Continuing on my long-running ‘Sage Scifi’ topic – let’s cover something important: we should be people who treat kids like people. If we want to live in a world where we get to be mature, enjoy civilized discourse, and anti-racist, then we must acknowledge our responsibility to be persons that young people can feel safe…
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I don’t want to be famous, and this week is one reason why: providing famous-person ‘hot takes’ is a zero-sum game. Here’s a brief re-cap of the hot messes and the hot messes who love them. Scott Adams made an idiot of himself after posting a racist ‘hot take’ rant about a racism poll. Subsequently…
Every time you hear something like ‘US Air Force built a real flying saucer,’ your first move is usually to say “Thanks, Uncle Charlie.” However in this case, it’s actually true! The Avrocar was the USAF’s attempt to build a field-ready transit vehicle that could travel on land and by air. Take a look below…
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Good news, writer friends – I did some experiments with ChatGTP and the results are more proof that AI isn’t about to replace writers. Some have suggested that ChatGTP is really great at generating news copy and perhaps that’s true. I wanted to see how well it would do for writing creatively, so I decided…
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Any fan of NASA, space, or scifi has inevitably asked: What *Is* the Saturn 5 Rocket? We’ve all seen the videos, watched Apollo 13, but at the end of the day: How did it all happen? Smarter Every Day asks and answers this question, which we’ll get into for this Sci-Friday. Take a look: It’s…
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I’m pleased to announce that World War Four is now available on your favorite e-book platform. It’s a simple comic-tragedy with a contemporary punchline. Here’s the description for World War Four: Red alarms blind the last human on Earth. Joe, NASA’s Long Sleep subject, stumbles from his cryo-pod on atrophied leg muscles. Pods prohibit clothing…
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Today’s wake-up call comes in the form of this letter – Dear Jackson, face everything and recover. Up and at ’em, wipe the sleep outta your eyes. When you started out, you wanted to re-invent your life. Jackson, without the demons and baggage. Jackson without the regrets and self-loathing. Writing, creating, making, doing – those…
