“NOVA” A #ScifaikuSaturday highlights post for 3/5/22

John Everex @EverexJohn our mutual eyes catch the nova's explosion then wane into dark Abi Graham @AbiGraham3 Big super nova, A moment lost in the past, Pinned to our night sky. Jenny Gaitskell @JennyGaitskell oh supernova the star for all my wishes brightest at her last Paul M @pmll3r #nova... old becomes new and fades...

“RESCUE” A #ScifaikuSaturday compilation post for 1/1/22

Ryan Dowes @RyanDowes Our rescue mission landed on Acheron but found no survivors Joe F @frghtndmn Always a chance of Being rescued in time and Space by the Doctor Kate @KateWheeling84 They wished to be #rescued from the strange island then longed to go back Jesus Garay @TheJesusGaray Matrioshka brain crash rescue teams sent to...

Author Interview of Kellie Doughtery for “Curling Vines and Crimson Trades”

This has been a long time in coming. We interviewed Kellie back in 2019 for her first book Sunkissed Feathers and Severed Ties, which we loved. Interview here Now she's back with a new tale in the same universe! Here is our interview for Curling Vines and Crimson Tides: How long did it take to...

“EXIST” A #ScifaikuSaturday compilation post for 12/25/21

Jesus Garay @TheJesusGaray A return to Yule – tides of grass cover where we once stood, existed John Everex @EverexJohn we recount our time checking if we still exist searching for glitches Ryan Dowes @RyanDowes Hard to exist on inhospitable Venus a crushing furnace astrobots dug out subterranean colony well below surface Rachel Newcombe @rachelnewcombe8...

“ASTEROID” A #ScifaikuSaturday compilation post for 12/18/21

Ian Parkin @parkini422 Asteroid detached On a true collision course The planet slept on Tom Mitchell @originaltoms Dec 18 Wayward messenger, asteroid of ages past, tell us your stories. Lyssa is writing stories @lyssa_reese Twinkling spirit plays Music blends with starlight's glow Tempts an asteroid Roxanna @KrypticKro ~ they held asteroids in orbit before sending...

“KEN” A #ScifaikuSaturday compilation post 12/11/21

Alan 中村 @cleekmaker00 Ken and Barbie out exploring the holodeck pretending they're real Alan Vincent Michaels @AlanVMichaels We weren’t the first here Creatures way beyond our ken first glowed, then went dark Jenn R-J @jennfel buzz around spaceship spontaneous combustion Ken a pile of ash Tom Mitchell @originaltoms “Ken here. Scots on Mars?” “Guid question!...

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Literally

Lucy, a spacecraft set to visit an unprecedented number of asteroids in an unprecedented flight also will be carrying diamonds. Lucy is named after the partial hominid skeleton found in Ethiopia in 1974. Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and a graduate student discovered a fossil of a human ancestor who had lived 3.2 million years ago. After...

China’s and USA’s plans to divert asteroid

We're all looking at an asteroid named Bennu. Bennu is believed to be from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but has diverted its course due to sunlight, gravitational pull, and its own expulsions. Bennu is pretty cool, with NASA collecting a sample from the asteroid and bringing it back to Earth. On Monday,...

What We SHOULD Have Done

It's been almost a year since we last posted. We SHOULD have been all over the true science of COVID and vaccines. We SHOULD have been all over the Perseverance Mars landing and the Integrity drone flights. (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/) We SHOULD have commented on the Suez Canal ship blockage since Young is a steersman on barges....

Nanotech Curing Cancer

We love to write about Nanotechnology and in the Sci-Fi world, it can do anything. Here are some nanos actually fighting cancer! The nanoparticle, called a spherical nucleic acid (SNA), is a globular form of DNA that can easily enter and stimulate immune cells. Your body then produces T-cells that attack the cancer all by...