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When We Finally Fight A Galactic War, This is the Flag We’ll Be Fighting Under

By Matt Mitchell | Published: June 9, 2009
    The Flag of Earth symbolizes the Earth (the center blue disk), the Sun (the yellow disk on the left), and the Moon (the white disk on the right). The Earth and its most important celestial neighbors – the Sun and Moon – are overlaid on a backdrop of the darkness of space. The Flag of Earth [...]
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The Planets, They Are Lining Up…

By Matt Mitchell | Published: July 8, 2008
You know, when I said the planets must be lining up because of all the weird I’ve been seeing, I didn’t know they really were. Interestingly, in this article the author claims that planetary alignments “are nothing more than the visible clockwork mechanism of our natural skies,” and that the myths associated with those movements [...]
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The Big Idea: Matt Mitchell

By Matt Mitchell | Published: July 1, 2008
I love the Big Idea series John Scalzi is doing. I like reading about the genesis of an idea, how it came to be written. If I had an opportunity to show John Scalzi my Big Idea–which I don’t, since the book is not published–I might tell him that my idea has a lot to [...]
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Earth and Moon as seen from Mars

By Matt Mitchell | Published: June 9, 2008
NASA pic culled from Brent_Zupp: If you liked that post, then try these...Snow on January 22nd, 2008Global Warming Activists Villainized [Again] on July 24th, 2009Incredible Animal Kingdom Photography on July 17th, 2008The Truth about Spirit Animals on July 17th, 2008Global Warming = Ice Age on April 7th, 2008
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Top 10 Space Conspiracy Theories

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 21, 2008
This is just a hoot. (I’ve listed the theories here, comments added are my own.) The Moon Landing was a Hoax: This would make a lot of people liars. People who I don’t believe are liars. A dozen astronauts, along with everyone at NASA, Houston, politicians…okay, I can see the politicians keeping up a lie, but [...]
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Lunar Eclipse

By Matt Mitchell | Published: February 21, 2008
Wrapped in full darkness in the middle of the exceptionally silent forest as the eclipse began: deadstill. I lay down on the cold uneven ground, staring up for the calm extravaganza, imagining the blaze of sun on the far side of the world, brilliantly encompassing half the globe where life is shrill, humanity volatile, sweating. Reaching [...]
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Suspension of Disbelief – The Theory of the Second Moon

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 29, 2007
Suspension of disbelief is a useful tool for writers, especially to writers of speculative fiction. But how much artistic license are readers willing to allow a writer? Like most authors, I read quite a bit about the craft of writing, and I read an article sometime last year concerning the suspension of disbelief. I don’t [...]
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