David Scholes just sent in a note about his newest story that is available on farther stars than these.

This text version is an excellent read.  Check the link out.

Here’s my latest story on Farther Stars Than These:  http://www.fartherstars.com/search/label/David%20K%20Scholes

BMU 413 Now Online Anime Reviews, Science & Duncan Shields' Ringminers' Daughter

 

After my opening comments and playing the opening music from Durara which is a highly inventive anime series, I head straight to the Beam Me Up Blog.

first up, Kallimus talks about the new season of Space Dandy.  I follow that up with an original production from Netflix called Knights of Sidonia, which after a couple of episodes I would give the series a thumbs up.  The next anime offering is from Crunchyroll which will be offering "Rail Wars" sound very promising.

On the science side of the news - I find an article on 3d biopringing. In this case vascular network for 3d organs.

on the Goldilocks type planets, there is evidence that some may not even exsist.  From Space.com - Gum-15 a stellar nursery nebula of super massive stars may be destroyed by the very stars that

Fan of Futurerama?  How about Farnsworth's smelloscope?  Do you know that NASA has an individual that does a very similar function....

I found this very disturbing video of a dancing puppet and I do mean disturbing.  Check out the video on the Beam Me Up blog at wrfrbeameup.blogspot.com

hey if you can't swing a quarter mil for a ride into space. How about a balloon ride that is much cheaper and goes to about 122 thousand.
feet.

And an Airforce engineer has found a very inventive way of detecting and tracking space debris.

The story this week is Ringminer's Daughter by Duncan Shields

BMU Podcast # 353 Now Online

Welcome to episode 353 of Beam Me Up.  This week, a change or two, some surprising happenings and I continue with Doug Turnbull's story.

First off an excellent new piece of music called 7 Rounds from John Anealio.  FYI  you can follow John and catch other tracks on John's blog http://scifisongs.blogspot.com/

As a change up, instead of asking questions as trivia for star trek, I think each week, I will come up with a couple of Star Trek trivia facts.  You are always welcome to weigh in on either trivia questions or facts.

From there I have a couple of Earth Sky news stories. 

Earth Sky reports on a possible new dwarf planet more than 600 million miles past Pluto. 

Kallamis  Gives us a weekly run down of news.

And I continue on with the Beam Me Up blog, more on the Russian Meteor strike, The Goldilocks Zone has been modified, discovery of the youngest black hole in our galaxy? Kallamis again is on a tirade about Pluto and it's new moon....and new equipment for the blind.

I finish with part 2 of Colonial Scout by Doug Turbull.

Podcast

BMU # 283 We Honor Those We Serve online now

This week on episode 283, the program seems to write itself! I decided to play it straight and see how things proceed. All in all though you will have to listen to get my drift.

I start right out with expert by Weird Al Yandovic on the Beam Me Up Blog. A new song “Stop Forwarding that Crap to Me!” This puts a spin on some of the abuse that is foisted off on us by some users that have more cell phones than brains. Recent surveys have it that more than 4% of the countries cell phone users have more than one cell. The survey pointed out that there are more cell phones in operation in the us than there are people. It is a certainty then with this kind of density that parody performers would comment on this. First up is Weird Al Yankovic with his protest song about junk email. “Stop Forwarding that crap to Me”

More from the blog.....From two astronomers at the Observatory of Côte d'Azur in Nice, France come an interesting article on the reason Uranus is on it’s side. It would appear that Uranus was struck with at least two massive planet sized bodies in it’s distant past that knocked it completely on it’s side.

HP's new technology may well make DRAM and SRAM obsolete by 2015. flash memory in a year and a half. This new technology that HP is betting on is called the memristor. Memristors are wires made of titanium dioxide a mere 150 atoms wide. They can preserve memory states when off and can be written to trillions of times.

I found a great online film of the Alma telescope. Higher than any other ground based observatory, located in Chile, is the new ALMA’s only about a third of the dishes in the array are installed as of yet, but ALMA is the most powerful scopes of it's type. By 2013 all of it's 66 dishes will be installed, bringing ALMA to full power, Check out the film describing the telescope.

Back in August of 2010 I reported on this odd little series, a bit more than webisodes but not quite network tv called Pioneer One it is a viewer supported project that seems to have worked!
There are now five episodes available online. I have the link online or you can go here http://www.pioneerone.tv/ for more episodes plus the original.

What’s a Q-Drive? Well over at Cannae LLC in Pennsylvania,they describe the QDrive as a resonating cavity with design features that redirect the radiation pressure exerted in the cavity to create a radiation pressure imbalance on the cavity. This differential in radiation pressure generates an unbalanced force that creates thrust. The cavity is accelerated without use of propellant. ooooooooooooooooo kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

BMU # 282 Online Mr. Bronze by Phil Voyd & Kit St. Germain

Once again we get into the scaring season in Episode 282.

This week’s story is a true horror piece produced for radio by Kit St. Germain as well as a very talented acting troupe performing- Mr. Bronze from a short story written by Phil Voyd. Heather Brown engineers. And the narrator in the story is Mark Oliver. Ben, the “star” of tonight’s outing is a consummate body builder, working all the way from a literal 90 lb weakling to wining the Mr. Bronze trophy. Everything was going right in his world, that was until he found this weird photo album, then things got decidedly worse.

From the Blog I review Rio the Movie. Unfortunately this Plot-line for this film is something you have seen over and over again, especially in animal based animation. How did I rate it? Well animation is good but the plot is soulless and the studio flips you off with no extras. 6…I suspect everyone was in for a payday on this one. Next I found something interesting in Dvice…..a Princeton Grad Student has created a device that is wired with a complex system of electrical sensors to make the plastic sheet fly?!

Is SpaceX up to picking up space missions of resupply and service in effect privatizing many of the low Earth orbit projects… Antipodean issue 160 is out…. and have you see where Mars Curiosity Rover is going to land? Yeah, inside the Gale crater, this bad boy has a central mountain over 3 miles high and the crater itself is 90 miles across, but still…it is quite a feat of programming.

Of course I could not resist starting the program with news of the October sky and a new song from Anealio called I want a Stormtrooper for Halloween….

How We Play Football in Alabama And Other Short Stories From Doug Hilton

Hey! Regulars to Beam Me Up and the podcast will recognize Doug Hilton. Well, Mr. Hilton just wrote us a short note, of extremely good news. Here ya go...

• My 42-story anthology of short sci-fi stories has been published on amazon kindle for all the world to see. Here’s a link to the book in the Kindle store:
• How We Play Football in Alabama And Other Short Stories From Doug's World
  
• Here is the link to the book HERE

Cover art and interior illustrations are by Richard H. Fay.

The title story is very funny. If you are interested in a taste of Doug's writing can log to the Beam Me Up podcast episode 246 for his cover story How We Play Football in Alabama

Beam Me Up Episode 279 now online

Fast moving and plenty of stuff this week on Beam Me Up episode 279.

I start things off with one of the fast pieces of music for the animated series Naruto Shippuden Syoujo by Scandal.

In this week’s blog, it seems everyone is talking about the star system discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope. One planet but two sun which brings to mind almost immediately the Star Wars World Tatooine! Everything from a ghost planet to a frozen -100 degree world was bandied about.

The Russian resupply crash was caused by a clogged fuel line in the third stage engine of the Soyuz rocket. This particular fuel line was driving a turbo pump that pumps fuel into the main combustion chamber, so when the pump failed, the third stage shut down. However knowing the cause and getting back on track for a crew change in early November a tall order at best.

Hey, did you ever see James Cameron's "The Abyss"? It still rates right up there as one of my all time favorite science fiction movies and not for the end, because the end was a cop out and a sell out and didn't come within a row of assholes of making sense, but up to that point wow, it's Alien only underwater where EVERYTHING kills you! The reason there was never a remake or part two? No one would go back for a remake. Well I found this series of “the making of” on the movie “The Abyss” and if you never saw the movie you don’t know what you missed and if you did, then check out the “making of” because it is fascinating!

NASA has a newheavy-lift launch vehicle that they say will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit. The Space Launch System will give the nation a safe, affordable and sustainable ….hummm I heard that somewhere before...

Up for discussion is five possible ways time travel may work.... the functional word here is MAY because I seriously doubt WILL.

And for our story this week. Part 2 and the conclusion to Adam-Troy Castro’s wonderful and controversial “ Arvies”

News From Nancy Fulda

Nancy Fulda is a wildly talented writer whom I have read on BMU in the past.

Mz. Fulda just sent in this update on the story title that I read starting on episode 248 of the podcast/radio program.

• I thought your listeners might like to know that "Knowing Neither Kin Nor Foe", which you read on Beam Me Up some time ago, is now available as part of an ebook collection.
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• The collection is called "The Breath of Heaven and Other Stories". In addition to "Knowing Neither Kin Nor Foe", it also includes "The Breath of Heaven" (A story compared by one reviewer to the work of Asimov and Clarke) and "In the Halls of the Sky-Palace", a fantasy tale originally published in Jim Baen's Universe. Interested readers can find links to the book at http://www.nancyfulda.com.