4 August, 1965. Panic sweeps the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, when local radio station WIST broadcasts a news flash: “An amoeba…
Linda Billings states bluntly that Ben McGee’s “call for proactive xenoarchaeological guidelines” is not “a productive contribution to the scientific…
A call for proactive xenoarchaeological guidelines – Scientific, policy and socio-political considerations Space Policy, Volume 26, Issue 4, November 2010,…
Following on from my popular post, 10 Space Archaeology Novels You Must Read, here’s a list of ten great space…
I was putting together a blog post about space songs when I discovered this amazing collection of filk from 1983. Minus…
Someone on Twitter said “Merry Martian Christmas”, and I immediately thought, “Wait a moment – Mars has a longer year…
Space junk has been in the news this week, and one of my tweeps asked if a space garbage truck…
In a previous post I reviewed a paper on astropalaeontology which I had serendipitously discovered. I tracked down the author…
Most commonly the term has been used by authors such as John Armitage (‘The prospect of astro-palaeontology’) to describe the…
I mentioned in my last post some thoughts about the cultural heritage value of the planet Venus. To recap, I…