Originally Published Through Yahoo Voices Memories of the Day from Canada and Australia The death of Queen’s lead singer came as a shock. Being in Australia, I was somewhat isolated from the overall news, and the movements of a “gay rock star” were not widely reported by the media of the day.However, when he died, things […]

Originally Published Through Yahoo Voices Nuclear Pulse Propulsion Revisited Stanislaw Ulam had the idea back in 1947. Use nuclear bombs; very small ones, but hundreds or thousands of them, to push a large spacecraft into orbit. Ted Taylor formed a team in 1958 which included Physicist Freeman Dyson to develop and produce a working model […]