“I claim the Red Planet for Red!” Those were Elon Musk’s ringing words when he set foot on Mars in 2047. Having gotten there first, Musk claimed the entire fourth planet for the Red Bloc, the conservative subdivision of the…
When Ukraine sent submarine drones to conduct a sneak attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in 2022, its Starlink satellite connection suddenly went dark. Without that connection, the drones went offline, and the Russian ships remained unharmed. Elon Musk, who…
Before the internet, artificial intelligence, the International Space Station, and the mapping of the human genome, there was science fiction, which predicted it all. Where and when the genre began is debatable: among the ancestors of today’s science fiction are…
We’ve all become accustomed to the calming — almost soporific — euphemisms that arrived with space exploration back in the 1960s. The euphemisms went along with the smiling, stoic bravery of the astronauts. Everything was “nominal,” until it wasn’t. At…
This edition of the 5QT will be all over the place, or at least as all over the place as you can be with five (somewhat) quick things. For that, I’ll apologize, though I’m not sure why. But when you…
WASHINGTON — The progressives, once called liberals, have a new target to hate. He is Elon Musk. By the way, the progressives have become very complacent about their targets for hatred. They hate Musk today, but it cannot be only…
It’s Monday morning at the Space Force’s Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center — and it’s official. NASA has given up all hope of launching its “mega moon rocket” anytime soon and has begun the laborious process of…
Monday, goddess willing, the U.S. will send into space the first moon rocket since the Apollo program ended 50 years ago. Why? To boldly go where no woman or minority has gone before! Seriously. The Artemis program, which is debuting…
