The Dead Hand Journal

If you have kids (and even if you don’t, now that I think about it), this weekend will offer an interesting stargazing opportunity: Saturn, Mars, and the Moon will appear in very close alignment with the bright navigational star Regulus in the constellation Leo, low in the western sky right after sunset. This is naked-eye astronomy at its best!

What if lawyers had to pay for frivolous and stupid lawsuits...

They want to protect space from radioactive contamination...

Whether or not Mars once had life is not so important as how soon it will have life again.

When you ban the good guys' weapons, only the bad guys will have them.

Sgt. Friday used to say: "Just the facts, Ma'am, just the facts." And speaking of facts...

Recently, the spacecraft Cassini did a fly-by of Iapetus a few thousand kilometers from the surface. What it saw supplies tantalizing evidence that we might be the children of star children.

Are we the children of star-children?