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Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Ron Fast links to Bios: Scatch – Joseph – Andrew – Ron – Keith Support The Other Side of Midnight! A few days ago, William Shatner — aka “Captain James T. Kirk” — took an 11-minute, life-changing rocket ride into outer space … How do we know it was “life-changing?” Because Bill has said so — repeatedly … on every network television show and podcast that would listen over the past week! Thus, successfully concluding an argument I began with Gene Roddenberry over a half-century ago …. That, somehow, Gene should deliberately bring “the mythical Star Trek Universe,” and the “reality of Americans one day inheriting the solar system” TOGETHER … even as the Enterprise was “boldly going where no television show had ever gone before ….” That — if done correctly — this could be the literal 20th Century Beginnings of […]
Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Scratch – Dr. Doug Fast links to Bios: Scratch – Dr. Doug – Andrew – Ron Support The Other Side of Midnight! “Space … the Final Frontier ….” For over fifty years … for more than half-a-century! … that ringing declaration has echoed across countless imaginations all around the world … spurring them on to become scientists, ambassadors … astronauts … culminating, just days ago, when the iconic man behind the Voice finally made it into Space himself …. James Tiberius Kirk, Captain of the Enterprise … aka, “William Shatner” … at the age of 90 Earth circuits of the Sun, finally “slipped the surly bonds of Earth … to touch the Face of God.” Or, in Shatner’s own shaken testament on his return– “You look down, there’s the blue down there, and the black up there. There is Mother … and […]
Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Jon – Timothy – Ron – Andrew Fast links to Bios: Jon – Timothy – Keith – Andrew Support The Other Side of Midnight! Yes! The Russians ARE shooting — even now … and for the next 11 days — major portions of the first feature-length fictional movie about “a challenge in space”– In Space! While, simultaneously — “next Tuesday …” — “Captain James T. Kirk,” famed captain of the most famous fictional starship in television and film history — the iconic “USS Enterprise” — is ALSO (finally!) rocketing into space– For Real! While Elon Musk (remember him …?) is deep into planning for his 2023 first Starship odyssey around the Moon …– “Boldly going … where no Space Tourists have gone before!” What happens when one of those space-born film crews … space tourists … or, space celebrities … actually SEE the […]
Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Barbara Fast links to Bios: Danny – Barbara – Georgia Support The Other Side of Midnight! Fifty-eight years ago … the world took a radically wrong turn. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was publicly assassinated on a sunny afternoon in Dallas, Texas — November 22, 1963 — setting the United States, if not the world, on a decades-long spiraling descent into increasing authoritarianism, an abrupt retrenchment in the previous global march toward increasing human rights and economic freedom … if not a world-wide ressurrgence of outright fascism. Now, Robert Kagan — American neoconservative Brookings’ scholar and long-term critic of U.S. foreign policy — has termed the mounting domestic backlash against democracy — culminating in a literal, physical insurrection riot at the U.S. Capitol, January 6th– “The greatest Constitutional Crisis since the Civil War ….” So, here’s the […]
Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard – Doug Fast links to Bios: Doug Support The Other Side of Midnight! Many years ago, I had a genius colleague and friend … his name was Krafft Ehricke. Krafft was a key member of Wernher von Braun’s infamous “Peenemunde Rocket Group” — the German scientists and engineers that the US Government brought to New Mexico at the end of World War II, to develop US military rockets under a code name — “Operation Paperclip.” Pursuing a completely (and MUCH more difficult) separate engineering path, Ehricke, decades after Paperclip, “invented” the first successful hydrogen-based rocket engine — which, unlike the alcohol and kerosene-fueled motors of the von Braun group, was much more efficient, making practical both manned and unmanned NASA missions to the Moon, to Jupiter and Saturn … and beyond. But all the while, Ehricke (like von Braun) continued to dream of human […]
