Watching A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Having completely confused it with A Streetcar Named Desire is an odd experience.

Also, Elizabeth Taylor's role in Life with Father is pretty small but she does get one good "hmph" and nose tilt. Anyone care to speculate exactly why Clarence, Jr. got flustered when she sat on his lap? The section is pretty suggestive for a code-era movie....

Next: four hours of Cleopatra, which I bet will be less racy than HBO's Rome.

Watching A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Having completely confused it with A Streetcar Named Desire is an odd experience.

Also, Elizabeth Taylor's role in Life with Father is pretty small but she does get one good "hmph" and nose tilt. Anyone care to speculate exactly why Clarence, Jr. got flustered when she sat on his lap? The section is pretty suggestive for a code-era movie....

Next: four hours of Cleopatra, which I bet will be less racy than HBO's Rome.

Watching A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Having completely confused it with A Streetcar Named Desire is an odd experience.

Also, Elizabeth Taylor's role in Life with Father is pretty small but she does get one good "hmph" and nose tilt. Anyone care to speculate exactly why Clarence, Jr. got flustered when she sat on his lap? The section is pretty suggestive for a code-era movie....

Next: four hours of Cleopatra, which I bet will be less racy than HBO's Rome.

And now, more officially

The Tiptree site announces the 2011 jury, as well as this interesting detail:

The Tiptree Motherboard, a group used to giving awards, has received a very exciting award. We are the proud recipients of the 2011 Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service, which is presented by the Science Fiction Research Association annually for “outstanding service activities–promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations.”

And now, more officially

The Tiptree site announces the 2011 jury, as well as this interesting detail:

The Tiptree Motherboard, a group used to giving awards, has received a very exciting award. We are the proud recipients of the 2011 Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service, which is presented by the Science Fiction Research Association annually for “outstanding service activities–promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations.”

And now, more officially

The Tiptree site announces the 2011 jury, as well as this interesting detail:

The Tiptree Motherboard, a group used to giving awards, has received a very exciting award. We are the proud recipients of the 2011 Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service, which is presented by the Science Fiction Research Association annually for “outstanding service activities–promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations.”

I can see no way in which this can end badly

From the Planetary Society Blog:

This is cool in several ways. The Planetary Society is contributing this thing called the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment (LIFE) to Russia's Phobos sample return mission -- it's basically a sealed puck with dormant microbes inside that'll fly to Mars and back in the return capsule, and biologists will take a look to see what damage the little bugs suffered during their space journey. In a Catch-22 that is central to the problem of getting new tech into space, it's easier to launch stuff to space if it's already been launched to space before. The Society now has the opportunity to fly LIFE to space before it gets put on Phobos-Grunt by flying it on -- amazingly (to me anyway) -- one of the final Shuttle flights, Endeavour's upcoming launch.

I can see no way in which this can end badly

From the Planetary Society Blog:

This is cool in several ways. The Planetary Society is contributing this thing called the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment (LIFE) to Russia's Phobos sample return mission -- it's basically a sealed puck with dormant microbes inside that'll fly to Mars and back in the return capsule, and biologists will take a look to see what damage the little bugs suffered during their space journey. In a Catch-22 that is central to the problem of getting new tech into space, it's easier to launch stuff to space if it's already been launched to space before. The Society now has the opportunity to fly LIFE to space before it gets put on Phobos-Grunt by flying it on -- amazingly (to me anyway) -- one of the final Shuttle flights, Endeavour's upcoming launch.

I can see no way in which this can end badly

From the Planetary Society Blog:

This is cool in several ways. The Planetary Society is contributing this thing called the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment (LIFE) to Russia's Phobos sample return mission -- it's basically a sealed puck with dormant microbes inside that'll fly to Mars and back in the return capsule, and biologists will take a look to see what damage the little bugs suffered during their space journey. In a Catch-22 that is central to the problem of getting new tech into space, it's easier to launch stuff to space if it's already been launched to space before. The Society now has the opportunity to fly LIFE to space before it gets put on Phobos-Grunt by flying it on -- amazingly (to me anyway) -- one of the final Shuttle flights, Endeavour's upcoming launch.

Also

Team Phoenicia was kind enough to use an essay of mine:


The chimera of Lunar Helium-three as a driving force for space development

Also

Team Phoenicia was kind enough to use an essay of mine:


The chimera of Lunar Helium-three as a driving force for space development

Also

Team Phoenicia was kind enough to use an essay of mine:


The chimera of Lunar Helium-three as a driving force for space development