Monthly Meeting

Our regular monthly meeting will be held this coming Sunday at Books-A-Million in Colonial Heights around 2:00 PM.

Everyone with an interest in Sci-fi is welcome!

Global Search for Extraterrestrial Life

This past weekend observatories in 13 nations on five continents trained their telescopes on several promising star systems in the search for extraterrestrial life. This coordinated effort is the first of its kind. It indicates just how far the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, SETI, has come. The participating observatories were in Italy, India, Argentina, Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Sweden, the Netherlands, and several in the United States and Japan. With 500 exoplanets identified and 700 more awaiting confirmation the observations can be more directed and ambitious that in the past.

2 Sequels of "Avatar"

It was announced last week that James Cameron will work on two sequels to the movie Avatar.

2010 Scream Awards

The 2010 Scream Awards program was broadcast Tuesday night. Inception won the best sci-fi film award -- Christopher Nolan again.

Monthly Meeting

This coming Sunday we have our regular monthly meeting at the Books-A-Million in Colonial Heights around 2:00 PM.

Everyone with an interest in Sci-fi is welcome!

SR-71 Forum

Al, Mike, Nik, and I enjoyed our annual pilgrimage to the SR-71 Forum at the Virginia Aviation Museum last Saturday. The weather was really great -- a nice day to be out and about. I learn something every year. This year I learned that one of the SR-71 test pilots later joined the astronaut program and eventually piloted three Shuttle missions.

Review Finds No Lightning damage to Discovery, Pad

I went to NASA's website to read this article, Review Finds No Lightning damage to Discovery, Pad.

According to this article, there is a launch of Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station scheduled for 1 November 2010.

This is the last flight of this shuttle of the fleet.

There were five lightning strikes near the launch pad Tuesday.

But no damage to the ground support equipment or the space shuttle systems at Launch Pad 39A was found.