F. P. Dorchak

Speculative Fiction (New Weird) Author

Space

New Discovery On Mars

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Marvin the Martian
Marvin the Martian (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This article claims a new Martian discovery will soon be revealed by NASA.

“It could be all kinds of things,” said Peter H. Smith, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona who was the principal investigator for NASA’s earlier Phoenix Mars mission but is not involved with Curiosity. “If it’s historic, I think it’s organics. That would be historic in my book.”

That NASA is being tight-lipped about it is not all that “exciting” to me. What’s exciting to NASA isn’t exactly big shakes to the rest of the population, IMHO (and I could very well be wrong…).

Why?

Cause we’re all looking for the discovery of alien ruins, fragments of C3PO, or a used Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator…not some perchlorate, or a whole, entire molecule of some “…carbon-based molecules known as organics…” in Martial soil.

We already know about the robot face (hmmm, images of which have curiously disappeared from the search engines…), Cydonia, and other conspiracies.

But then, a day later…NASA is already backpedaling. Okay, maybe not “historic”…just “interesting.”

Really? Over UFOs, ruins, and an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?

C’mon, top those, NASA.

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The Earth Sings!

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Read this interesting article and this one about how the Earth makes this little “dawn chorus” music, which was recorded Sept. 5, 2012, using satellite radio receivers. There are numerous five-second bursts strung together to make one smooth, continuous video.

What beautiful music!

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X-Files Third Movie? Maybe a Millennium Flick, Too?

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Cover of "The X-Files: Fight the Future"
Cover of The X-Files: Fight the Future

Click this link for a short interview with Frank Spotnitz about pushing for a third X-Files movie to put an end to the conspiracy! He’s also talking what we all want to see: ALIENS!

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Egyptian Tech Hieroglyphics

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A helicopter, stealth fighter, submarine, and an airplane are carved into stone at the ceiling of a 3000-year-old Egyptian Temple.  I’ve heard plenty about this over the years, but here is a recent photo (photo is at the bottom of the article) that shows what all the talk is about. Now, whether or not one chooses to believe the photo is undoctored, well, is a matter of personal preference, I suppose. But there it is. Read the article here.

Gets one to thinkin’, huh?

Very Few Eureka Moments Left….

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A Wired article recently announced the demise of one of my favorite shows: Eureka. Now, sure, Eureka’s just a show, and there are far more important issues to deal with, like keeping a job, having enough money to live on, and spending billions of dollars on investigative space probes in the face of trillions of dollars of governmental debt, and all…but, dang it, I’m gonna miss Sheriff Carter, Fargo, Taggart, and the rest of the crew.

In the article we are told that it was a purely numbers game (and I have heard that the ratings were “so-so”), something the characters on the show could well identify with, given their fake-life’s fake-work, but I sure wish those in charge would re-examine their decision. I’m no exec, nor a scheduler of shows, so I don’t know all the ins and outs related to all this, so I don’t know that I can really take issue with how things are gonna go down. If the numbers are low or aren’t great, then to the chopping block it goes…but maybe if those who run the show take a look at some of the items in the article to save the show, its ratings could go up. True, the stories aren’t exactly great in-depth knockouts (but they are entertaining, and there’s little things like it’s always about the demise of Global Dynamics or the world, and something usually ends up involving Carter’s vehicle in a destructive way…), but, man, the characters, they truly are some of the best on television! Colin Ferguson’s comedic timing is incredible.

The numbers.

Costs too much to produce, ratings are low. Economy sucks.

Not much you can say about that.

But I truly wish someone in-the-know would come up with one of their own bonafide Eureka! moments and figure out a way to “Imagine Greater” and out of the box to save it.

Come on, Eureka, invent your way out of this one….