by jwegener | Feb 29, 2024 | Science, Virgo, Zodiac Series
 Crime in the 26th Century In my book, Virgo, I describe an assassination where the assassin injected nanites into the bloodstreams of the victims. These nanites used the victim’s own blood as a feedstock to manufacture the toxin that killed them, the nanites...
by jwegener | Feb 8, 2024 | Space
 Why Is It Difficult To Land On The Moon? Have you ever wondered why so many moon landers crash? What makes it so difficult to land, especially an unmanned craft on the moon or even Mars? It’s an interesting question and one I’m not sure I can adequately answer, but...
by jwegener | Jan 25, 2024 | Science
 Independent Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI), or generative AI has been receiving a great deal of press over the last few years. But is the fear it produces justified with the technology’s current development? Lets step back and examine...
by jwegener | Jan 18, 2024 | Cosmology
 Commercial Missions to the Moon I notice talk in the media about private companies undertaking missions to land on the moon. Recently, Astrobotic and NASA launched a mission to the moon with instruments on a lander called Peregrine for experiments on the lunar...
by jwegener | Oct 26, 2023 | Cosmology
 Osiris-Rex Returns with Asteroid Rock A capsule containing a sample of asteroid rock collected from the asteroid, Bennu, returned to Earth a couple of weeks a go. NASA sent a probe to the asteroid Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid, in 2016. It arrived there at the end...
by jwegener | Sep 28, 2023 | Short Story
John’s SciFi Space Short Story Possessed Part 12 While Moloch schemed his escape, Cain wallowed in his despair in the fathomless well of his consciousness. He dared not let his thoughts leak out to the monster inside him, although he couldn’t tell the limit to...
by jwegener | Sep 7, 2023 | ftl
 Sammy Stormtrooper Say… Check this book out! Learn More Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Like this:Like...
by jwegener | Aug 24, 2023 | Short Story
John’s SciFi Space Short Story Possessed Part 11 Moloch seethed with rage. His helplessness infuriated him. He howled with an intensity the whole institution heard. How did she overcome his power with such ease? No wonder Legion was beyond reach. One thing was...
by jwegener | Aug 3, 2023 | Short Story
John’s SciFi Space Short Story Possessed Part 10 But what could he be looking for? Gabriel thought. He must have inhabited this planet for eons for its occupants to have established a worship religion with him as their god. Why not reestablish that instead of...
by jwegener | Jul 20, 2023 | Short Story
John’s SciFi Space Short Story Possessed Part 9 Gabriel had no time to spare. Goodness knows where the demon went. She had no leads about its trail after it left the space station or of the demon’s purpose. So her only choice was tracing its path back to the...