Reverend Frost’s 27th Bloody Halloween Mix is available and ghastly as ever!
NASA Goddard promo vid
I want to go to there. All the “theres”.
www.youtube.com Another Cowboy Bebop teaser
Teaser’s for the Netflix live-action Cowboy Bebop just keep getting better.
www.youtube.com William Shatner visits space
I love this reaction (at 2:45:50). I don’t think I’d want a champagne shower and party as I stepped out of that capsule either. Life-changing events require time to process. Thanks, William Shatner, for giving voice to that wonder.
The Expanse season 6
December 10!
EVA suits
Maybe I should submit the design of my surface suits…
Ars Technica Though, to be fair, my suits are a fictional combination of the ideas of Dava Newman and Kava Manyapu. But I came up with the waste disposal mechanism (capillary action through the compression layer into a pad beneath the outer layer, which can be changed).
Mars communication
The physics of orbiting bodies is about to take away our communication with Mars for a couple weeks.
Cowboy Bebop
Check out the opening credits for the live action Cowboy Bebop coming in November on Netflix.
Busy busy
The bulk writing, the writing just to get traction and capture the story is long done. Now it’s finesse and fleshing out and filling holes and making consistent: the hard stuff. This is going to take some time.
In the meantime, here’s an outhouse on Mars.
Word count over the past few days: 3796
image: composite using artwork by Luis Peres from the second book and an image from https://www.flickr.com/people/scottkmacleod/
Writing update
Today’s word count: 288
These counts will be very bursty and uneven for a while. Some days will see entirely new sections, with high counts. Others will see glue text, as I bring pieces together and smooth the edges.
(BTW, the images I post with these updates do, in fact, have relevance to whatever I work on that day.)
image: public domain