Aliens: Hunting Blueblood

SCI-FI

There is an involved story behind the image below.
It starts with a group/organization of Pantheon which will be covered later.

The subject below (being modeled) represents a geneticaly engineeried creature that is both predator and guardian. The guardian role will be covered later. In the role of predator this creature roots out a key alien type which are designated blueblood. Without bluebloods taking hold there can be no occupation or colony.

Areas of interest: North America, South America, and Eastern Europe.




More on this story in the coming weeks.

Rich Cabrera

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Peter Jennings UFO: Seeing is Believing

Say What?

Peter Jennings UFO’s: Seeing is Believing, defies its own title. Unlike his provocative special on JFK’s assassination, this special was loaded with poorly rehashed accounts offering no new insight in the process. There were no evaluations, tests, or interesting theories offered to support or debunk the subject matter. In fact throughout the two hour show there was nothing remotely provocative to attempt to engage the audience at any level. It was as if someone decided to make a video bookmark of known events that have happened for the past 60 years. There was virtually nothing new to see worth believing.

The pace of the show was plodding while the individual cases, points and interviews felt poorly pasted together. This made for a very bland and ultimately very boring show. By the 2^nd hour I was contemplating turning it off. I can’t imagine anyone who is aged 30 or over watched the show feeling it could have been cut to 30 minutes and accomplished the same end effect.

Peter Jennings UFO: Seeing is Believeing would have been better called UFO’s: A History, UFO’s: Timeline, or UFO’s: A retelling. There simply wasn’t any investigative effort or point to this 2 hour ramble.

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Mars to Order

Mars in a Heartbeat

Even with our advances in space sciences real space travel still sounds like Science Fiction. The kind of travel that involves man not space probes to dart through our solar system. Even with all the unmanned probes there has been accidents. Knowing that sending a man to Mars doesn’t appear realizable, practical, and let alone safe.

Opening the door to more practical and clearly grayer areas gives both creativity and controversy equal play.

Astronauts to Order

Bio-engineering, Nano technologies, bio-electronics, cell harvesting, and cloning are just some of the ideas I’ve put together to produce a short story. Can it be done? Maybe not at the moment, but the seeds of curiosity and necessity have already been planted.

This ultimately events will challenge mans ethical standards. When do we cross the line of expanding the human condition to the optimal remaking of a human species? Will there ever be the prototype human? Who would be in favor of it and who would try and stop it?

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Is Science Fiction involved in the Fleecing of America?

I was watching NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams last night (Feb 9, 2005) and they ran a segment that I normally watch with much interest.

The Fleecing of America is a segment that illustrates poor financial accountability by government agencies supporting big projects that are ill conceived boondoggles generally costing millions at the taxpayer’s expense.

So when I find that the military is spending money on research to facilitate Star Trek type teleportation, I found it more interesting than a farce. Of course then I realized that this series always showcases million dollar pot holes with blank checks to nowhere.

The US Air Force paid $25,000 to a company in Las Vegas called Warp Drive Metrics to do a teleportation feasibility study. Warp Drive Metric’s final report illustrated that teleportation would not be possible for the foreseeable future. Now I’ve seen and read of worse financial investments than this. Maybe it’s because the military is paying a company with the name Warp Drive Metrics. With a name like that sounds like they should be able to pull it off.
Read the NBC’s story here

Why this report isn’t as alarming to me as it is to others is because I know that scientists have already performed a teleportation breakthrough albeit at a very small level.
Read the BBC teleportation article here

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I’ll conclude by writing that with our current financial deficits, cut backs, and growing military budgets, this story has roots in other interests.

Equal Science and Science Fiction

Take one part Science one part Science Fiction and twist it until it starts to make sense.

In this blog you will find a few different approaches.

ONE: I will pair a variety of technolgies from different sciences together, throw in some theories and some creative ideas and see if there's a fit.

TWO: I will include original imagery and general ideas in hopes of provoking discussion.




Allot Hasn't Changed in 30 Years

We don't have bases on the moon and we aren't sending astronauts to Mars colonies. I was a big Sci-Fi fan as a kid, even a Trekie albeit not Trekie Convention kind. I beamed when the 1st Space Shuttle was named Enterprise. I didn't know a thing about national budgets as a kid, all I heard was the "sky's the limit". I just saw big rockets endlessly being fired into space. With some cruel irony, the sky was the limit as all the artists concepts of what space could be never panned out.

Technology Earth bound or not marches on with or without space travel. Now we have Laptops and PDA's with computing power that would make Mission Control in Houston in the 1960's envious. We have smaller nations outside of NASA that have their own rocket programs. More importantly we have individuals with entrepreneurial spirit with the likes of Burt Rutan who continue to push the bounderies of design. All these smaller components combined offer a glimpse posing a risning new challenge for space.


Of Science and Science Fiction

I am somewhat selective about science fiction, by that I mean I enjoy Science Fiction when there is some sort of factual or theoretical science embedded in a story. When it comes to science breakthroughs, I look to for them to fullful my overactive imagination. For me the possibilities in combining both are what its all about.

There is the middle ground where both can validate points made and make a story feel more plausible. It's achieving that suspension of disbelief or immersion level where an audience is willing to escape into brand new world of fact and fiction. There are line(s) between the real world and the imaginary world. Interweaving equal parts and allowing one to bridge or even blur the line(s) just enough to make it all the more interesting.

Of course there is always pure escapism. Where story ideas, images, and notions are not based anywhere in fact. Sometimes having every point explained can get tedious and kill the imagination process. Can too much science fact get in the way of good science fiction? In this blog I hope to keep both sides open just to see where it ends up going.