If a rover lands on Mars and there isn't anyone around to witness it...

I think of the Curiosity Landing on Mars and how no one was there to witness that awesome event. In my mind I tried to imagine the image of a small craft coming out of the red martian sky being slowed by a giant parachute, and then the parachute detaches. As the craft falls 8 engines ignite and bring it down to suspend in mid air just 40 meters from the ground. Slowly a 1 ton rover is lowered to to the ground with the help of a cable system. As the wheels touch the ground the cables detach and the craft accelerates away and crashes somewhere far in the distance. The rover sits there and no one is there to see it.

I may do this. Stay Tuned

There are 30 different... categories(?) that I do each day. So, here is what I will be writing about for the next 30 days.

1. List 20 random facts about yourself.
2. Describe 3 legitimate fears you have and explain how they became fears.
3. Describe your relationship with your parents.
4. List 10 things you would tell your 16 year-old self, if you could.
5. What are the 5 things that make you most happy right now?
6. What is the hardest thing you have ever experienced?
7. What is your dream job, and why?
8. What are 5 passions you have?
9. List 10 people who have influenced you and describe how.
10. Describe your most embarrasing moment.
11. Describe 10 pet peeves you have.
12. Describe a typical day in your current life.
13. Describe 5 weaknesses you have.
14. Describe 5 strengths you have.
15. If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
16. What are your 5 greatest accomplishments?
17. What is the thing you most wish you were great at?
18. What has been the most difficult thing you have had to forgive?
19. If you could live anywhere, where would it be and why?
20. Describe 3 significant memories from your childhood.
21. If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you do with it first?
22. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years? 15 years?
23. List your top 5 hobbies and why you love them.
24. Describe your family dynamic of your childhood vs. your family dynamic now.
25. If you could have dinner with anyone in history, who would it be and what would you eat?
26. What popular notion do you think the world has most wrong?
27. What is your favorite part of your body and why?
28. What is your love language?
29. What do you think people misundertand most about you?
30. List 10 things you would hope to be remembered for. 

Ray Bradbury: Influencing and Preventing Possible Futures

This week Ray Bradbury passed away. I decided to write an article on how his stories influenced and prevented possible futures. CNN picked up my I Report. You can view it here. http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-799884

Four Comedies You Must See

Obscure, Slapstick, Absurd, Witty, these are all comedies that may change your perception on what the hell you've been watching all of these years. Not everyone will love these comedies, but they may grow on you over time.

Brazil-Love does not always conquer all.


Rushmore-About the person you wish you were in high school.


Young Einstein-What if Einstein's theory of relativity could make bubbles into beer?


Top Secret-Ever wonder what would happen if the German government was still evil in the 80's and Val Kilmer was a singing popstar and was the only one who could stop them?

Working on a poem

So, I've got this poem I am working on for my brother's movie. It has to be about space and a robot is reciting it. It is still a work in progress, but this is what I have so far.

Ticking time’s piece fills the void that is reason

Curving space and light play games, it’s all within the season

Round we go on orbit slow

This spaceship Earth has given birth

And through the solar winds she’ll hold her spin

And when she dies the journey will begin

It’s not the dark of night that’s blind

But seven billion souls that sleep

And in their dreams the sun is red

The air is green, the roses dead

Loss of limb, it’s not the same

You wakeup living, blood in veins

And in the flight of grace they hold their pain

And in the cosmic rain they wash away.

We Can Prevent Our Own Extinction

SpaceX on 60 Minutes

Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX, a privately owned spaceship company from California. SpaceX is the first company to send a capsule into orbit and successfully retrieved the capsule after reentry. Their Dragon Capsule will most likely be the space craft that helps the United States eliminate its dependence on the Russian built Soyuz Capsule to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX claims that the Dragon Capsule will also be the most cost effective and safest space vehicle in the market.

There are a couple of veteran Apollo astronauts, Niel Armstrong and Gene Cernan, who disagree with the Obama administration's decision to contract flights with private spaceflight companies for the transportation of American astronauts to the International Space Station. They suggest that it is safer and more efficient for the government to develop, own and operate its own fleet of space vehicles. They have yet to accept Elon Musk's invitation to visit SpaceX's facilities in California, a gesture he was hoping could clear up their concerns. But SpaceX has its own former NASA astronaut, Garrett Reisman, working on making the Dragon capsule ready for human space flight. Reisman likens Elon Musk's space flight endeavor to that of Howard Hughes and TWA.

Take some time to watch the 15 minute interview with Elon Musk on 60 minutes to see what drove this man to use his personal fortune to start a privately owned space company.

Winner of Life, the Universe and Everything

Ok, so my poem tied for first place in Life, the Universe and Everything's poetry contest. This is the first time I have submitted my writing to anything. Maybe I should do this more often. Life, the Universe, and Everything is a speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror) writers conference. They have guest speakers and authors who conduct writers workshops. Here is the poem I submitted that won the competition. It is written in Iambic Pentameter but there is one line off that doesn't have the stressed and unstressed syllables perfect. Shakespeare didn't always get it right either.

Where the Gold lay.

The beast is dead, his claws now cracked, no breath.

In fight he fell, one victim for the proud.

On fields men kill, the great, the bold, till death

and climb the dead with woe. Knight takes a vow,

a token of true fondness. Gazing blind,

death’s stare is but a day, a week, a year

and still love keeps the fake of powdered mime.

In dreams she peers in crystal balls. No cheer,

no sound, she screams, his beat of heart is wrought.

In time the scars of dreadful past will stitch.

The day is far she keeps him close in thought,

in breast. Her bones now ache the burning itch

of tells when rock with stone are forged and crushed.

To stop a crown the Gold lie down in dust.

The Beach Boys are back!!

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