Just finished Stephen King's new book - 11/22/63. Not the typical Stephen King book. A guy discovers a door into time travel, and at the urging of a dying friend, goes back in time to try and prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Very long book. Not as much gore as the usual King novel. Drags in a few spots, but not a bad book. Never got much of an explanation about why the door-to-time exists.
One moral of the story: Like the United Federation of Planets says in Star Trek, don't mess with the historical timeline. You'll have to read the book to learn more.
Anyway. Some offbeat pics from the pages of a really old Star Trek picture novel.
One of the great things about Star Trek is that much of it is based on science. The creators studied scientific trends, and tried to figure out what the scientific future would be like. Take a look at the communicators on the Starship Enterprise. Compare them to a modern cell phone.
Now all we need is to invent a travel transporter that would dematerialize and rematerialize human beings.
And speaking of space, yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. Hard to believe - 25 years have past.
And Newt Gingrich is stirring up controversy about his idea of putting a human base on the moon. I'm not a Newt fan, and a lot of his ideas are fanciful - but humanity needs to stretch itself into space, needs to push beyond the barriers of Earth. Exploration and discovery rocks. And it may hold the future of humanity.
That's it for now.