THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Dome of the telescope at McDonald Observatory in West Texas that helped map the near side of tidally-locked Luna before the landings began in 1969.

New discoveries of significant amounts of water (at least six-feet of water ice in each of forty craters) on what was long considered a bone-dry Luna show why today’s AGW to-do hardly can be considered “settled”: “If you converted those craters’ water into rocket fuel, you’d have enough fuel to launch the equivalent of one [...]

  I enjoyed this 1992 scifi novel of physicist Charles Sheffield’s, though it seemed unnecessarily complicated in the beginning. A little more action before establishing the seven main characters would have prevented me from putting it down so often. Sheffield died of brain cancer in 2002, which resonates because a good friend of Mrs. Charm’s [...]

We’ve heard several times that there may be water on Luna. In the form of ice on the surface, and, perhaps, some liquid underground. NASA is expected to unveil Thursday research showing "a lot of water" exists on the surface. From the AAAS journal Science advancer to Science writers: "…three reports utilize data collected by [...]

We’ve heard several times that there may be water on Luna. In the form of ice on the surface, and, perhaps, some liquid underground. NASA is expected to unveil Thursday research showing "a lot of water" exists on the surface. From the AAAS journal Science advancer to Science writers: "…three reports utilize data collected by [...]

Presume this is a railgun or a mass driver for flinging spacecraft into orbit. Bet it would be awfully cold on your bottom sitting on luna’s rock and dust like these folks are doing. They probably live underground to escape Sol’s radiation. Still, it would be fun to go. It is, actually, in the imagination.