Archive for August, 2009

British company plans gravity spaceship to save Earth from asteroids

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 31st August , 2009

I ALMOST punched myself in the face with shock at reading an article on the BBC website this morning, about what some scientists are up to in Stevenage.
Although not known as a hotbed of space exploration, a Stevenage company of boffins called EADS Astrium are working on a ‘gravity tractor’ spaceship which would exert gravity [...]

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42 sci-fi rules to live (and die) by

Posted by xxnapoleonsolo on 28th August , 2009

HI – remember me? I used to write a sci-fi blog a while back.
Of course, with me having had a summer break of a massive four weeks, the term blog probably means nothing now and a load of cool online sorts are shaking their heads at grandad and his quaint ideas.
Anyway, as a way of [...]

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