Wow. This article was sent to me by a few of my readers. A new study indicates that dolphins may have a complex language after all. Are we on the brink of the real "Breakthrough"?
The last post I wrote talked about exoplanets; planets outside of our own solar system. And how we can study them from a distance to determine whether life exists there. Well, guess what? Not only have we discovered thousands of these planets, but now we have discovered an Earth-like planet around our next nearest start Proxima Centauri. Right in our own backyard!
In just three years from now, we will mark the fifty-year anniversary of man’s first setting foot on the moon. Fifty years! It’s gone fast. Too fast. The 70’s and 80’s were full of visionaries projecting that we would have bases on the moon and burgeoning tourism by now. Alas man hasn’t set foot on the moon again since our last Apollo mission in 1972. Eugene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon and that was almost 44 years ago!
For those of us who grew up on Star Trek and Star Wars, our effort in getting off the planet and into space has been agonizingly slow. Instead, we watch as NASA sends rover after rover to investigate nearby bodies, while mumbling amongst ourselves “how hard can it be?”
But as it turns out, it’s pretty hard. Physics is the most obvious problem, especially for technologies that haven’t been invented yet. And the more we learn about space, the more obstacles we discover. Problems like radiation. Or lack of gravity. Or social isolation. The problems continue to grow based on the most fundamental human traits imaginable. And things we’ve taken for granted for millions of years.
I’m happy to say I’ve just finished the third book in the Breakthrough story line. It’s called CATALYST and picks up where LEAP ended. It will be out in mid-November and I think you’re going to like it. In the meantime, here is the first draft of the book description. Getting the description just right is always tough.
I recently had the pleasure of meeting a great indie author whose book Coercion was just launched by Thomas and Mercer, one of Amazon’s publishing imprints. He’s a fantastic writer with very strong reviews on all his books, and he’s also a hell of an interesting person. I asked if he would do a guest post and he obliged. If you haven’t read any of his books, I strongly recommend them.
