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Bringer of Light, Chapter 36: Transit, Luna to Ceres
What has gone on before: The Artemis asteroid mining ship crew and Weng, architect turned water reclamation plant engineer and part-time politician, have arrived to train the afflicted United Mars Colonies residents how to cope with their condition. Meanwhile, retired Captain Sergey Bardish suffered a stroke as he and Elodie Gagnon fled the fighting on […]
Onward and upward, Excelsior!
Just passed 200 followers on WordPress. Thank you, everyone! I know I should be posting a whole lot more often than I have. There are LOADS of new science articles and events happening recently, so I’ll see if I can get caught up over the next couple of weeks. Plus a new chapter of Bringer […]
We could live together / crystals on the Moon…
I should be posting another chapter from Bringer of Light, but I don’t feel like writing that right now, what with a humongoid typhoon slowing churning its way here. So here’s an article about what Chinese scientists found in Moon dirt. Also H3. Yay. Let’s make fusion reactors and walk on the Moon together…
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First Year Wall (Part 2) – The (not-so voluntary) parent-teacher conference
In mid-April, I went to a parent-teacher conference. Actually, it was more like an enforced PTA committee, which one parent per kid had to attend. As a group. We sat at our kids’ desks (tiny!) and introduced ourselves. This was … Continue reading
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