IT'S ALIIIIIVE!!

It seem to me like every time human kind is handed some higher power previously only held by gods they always mess it up. Dr. Frankenstein brought dead tissues back to life but it turned into a monster, John Hammond brings Dinosaurs back to life from extinction and they eat people... Why cant we win one for once?! I guess some would say that we, as a race of beings, aren't responsible enough for such power but there has to be someone out there who can get it right. I think the first lesson we should learn from these example is to not bring back huge carnivorous eating machines or make our recreation of man insane and also stronger than any still living human. So now that we have a few guide lines down the rest we can leave to scientists and trust they wont make giant insects to help with construction, but are also indestructible, or release a vaccine that cures a deadly flu, but may also cause hyper aggression and cannibalistic properties in humans. So long as we can easily break apart the LEGO construction that is a horde of apes mad with intelligence granted to them by a supposed cure for Alzheimer's we're pretty much set. But really what we need most is for these scientists guys just to think ahead a bit before they set loose the Navy's secret weapon Sharktopus. Oh god... I just mentioned Sharktopus...

Just got done reading an article about the improbability of Military airships due to the limited supply of helium at our disposal. Kind of ridiculous, the whole concept of balloon travel. It's slow, looks ridiculous, and just down right dangerous considering a majority of gases used in such concepts are so incredibly flammable (hello Hindenburg). Soon after a long YouTube search binge of flaming zeppelins crashing into the ground I began to think about how the one thing that will always remain constant within these advances in science and technology is that people will always be looking for a new, cool, fast, or more efficient way to travel. As stated before I don't think I want to be caught puttering through the sky in an airship but many other innovations in travel that I've come across seem pretty cool. Gyroscopic, one wheeled motor cycles, automobiles that lean into turns, cars that even drive them selves. The list goes on and on and will only continue to get bigger as people think up more ways to look cool while they're moving and/or save some money while they do it.
Transportation is one of those things that innovators and dreamers will never ignore and I look forward to seeing more cool, smart, or crazy ways to move around in the coming years.

Bert the Turtle

It's interesting to me how easily and how often the Cold War era houses stories in science fiction. Not to say that it doesn't make sense what with the great leaps through science including and especially this new weapon of mass destruction the Atomic Bomb, the likes of which had previously only existed in a child's science fiction comic book and was usually mounted on an aliens flying saucer. But now the technology was in the hands of a normal human person. In many ways, to me, even more frightening than in the hands of an advanced alien race. And that is where sci fi peaks it little head into the real world. Suddenly little Billy's "Action Comics!" didn't seem so far off which promotes much room for a science fiction writer to theorize and imagine "what if?". And that's what I think makes a truly great science fiction story, if the ideas presented are within the realm of belief, if things happen that seem so possible it is frightening that work has the makings of a great sci fi tale.

"Hulk hate to say it-- But Hulk needs puny Banner"

Watching Bride of Frankenstein has made me realize my love for this theme within sci fi of a monster vs creator such as is present in stories like Marvel comics' The Incredible Hulk or  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. While these two examples differ from Frankenstein in the case that the monster dwells within the creator, i still presents the same general theme that I love so much. While the more exciting scenes of these stories are the points where the monster is facing the cruelty of society, what I find most compelling is the conflict within the monster with its conscience teetering on the brink of insanity as society pushes it toward the edge. There is also the presence of a comparison between the monster and creator that is especially prevalent in Frankenstein that begs the question "Who is really the monster, the creator or his creation?" It is these kind of twists that compel me to continue reading a story because the author does not tell a story that is so blatantly obvious as "Kill the monster! He's ugly so he must be mean!". Instead it pokes fun at the childishness of a Hero vs Villain type of story and allows you to truly decide who is the villain. Beyond the message of "don't judge a book by its cover" these kind of stories force you to think about who the characters of the story are rather than it being told to you and that is what I love about these stories.

Time to Hop in my T-16

Looks like I'm going to be hunting some womp rats because Tatooine is now charted on my navi-computer. Alright I may be getting ahead of my self assuming that this planet the Kepler space observatory has discovered orbiting two suns is actually Tatooine but the young moisture farmer inside me wants to believe! Sadly, though, considering its gaseous make up, similar to Saturn, it's doubtful there are any Jawas rolling around in monstrous Sand Crawlers or Tuskan Raiders leading herds of banthas under the heat of the two suns. I suppose there is still hope for any of the planet's potential moons. Looking further into the situation though it turns out that such an occurrence of a dual sun system isn't an anomaly restricted to the Outer Rim territories. Binary star systems are systems, in which two stars orbit around their shared center of mass, make up half of the stars in the known universe in some estimates. But, what makes this event extraordinary is the existence of the Tatooine copy cat. Whether or not binary systems could form and support orbiting planets has been under dispute for some time-- until now that is. "It's been pretty much a split vote amongst the theorists, [but], One of the exciting things about this is: Kepler, as usual, has answered the question for us," said Alan Boss, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Words that spring hope in my heart but sadly don't change the physical make up of this newly discovered planet.
So for now it will have to remain a dream of mine to bullseye some womp rats in Beggars Canyon since the Star Wars galaxy remains so "far, far away"... Wake me up when that Kepler thing finds an artificial moon orbiting a planet encompassed entirely in forest.