Just Be There Blog

back, finally...For the moment anyway

No predictions on when I will make time to visit WdC and such, but I am here today. No writing compulsions for a while, but the nights are cooling down a bit and the brain is starting to spark some extra activities...the mental siesta may be waning along with the heat, and the mind works better in cooler temperatures.

I am reading an oldy but goody...R.A.Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo. Amazing what he knew in 1947 about the vacuum of space and the way one must move around in 1/6th Earth gravity. The story is a bit of an anachronism, and innately predicts the existence of cities on the moon by 2000...but still, all in all a good read. I know I read this story once, a long time ago in another life...but having read it so long ago and in another life, it is like reading the story for the first time.

The story is a bit hokey with the addition of Moon People, not human. But if Spielberg adapted this story, I'm sure the moon people would be E.T. not indigenous to the moon.