They are at last complete.

Finally I completed the final layout for the three solar systems in the TSC. Tight and perfect. I was able to accomplish this feat with a lovely website known as Hard Science Fiction Tools which can assist you in many things.

http://www.geocities.com/area51/corridor/8611/hard-sf.htm

In other news I conceptualized another story dealing with extremeophiles and meteor collisions.

Voyage to the Planets.

I just finished watching the BBC program Voyage to the Planets and I must say I was quite impressed. Be it the nice special effects or the actual believability of the mission itself. But I cant help but feel there were a few problems with it aswell.

For starts I felt it was a little to dramatic with the death of one of the crew members. I don't really want to see a lot of boo hooing what I want to see are the planets. This brings me to another problem; they did not go to all of the planets! Uranus, Neptune my two favorite planets and they totally avoid them for Pluto the pimple of the solar system. Yes I understand they went to plant more telescopes but it still is urksome.

Thinking about it now of all the space related docudramas I have seen (all of two) this one falls down in comparison. What I am comparing it to is the discovery channels Alien Planet which if you haven't watched it I advise you to. What set it apart from VTTP is I felt it was more believable because you had actual scientists commenting on the program instead of actors. But do not get me wrong VTTP was extremely good.

Culinaria.

One idea I had for a episode of Flesh Forzen was called Culinaria in which long lost lepers make their way to the culinary tourism planet Culinaria and gorge themselves silly. It has been a long time dream of mine to combine hard sf with food and I think I have developed a cooking show taking place on Culinaria with and alien chef host not only taking you around the apparent alien scenery to find ingredients but could also create earth based meals and by using light speed telecommunications could keep in touch with earth to see what foods are popular. The only other thing similar thing I can think of is good eats with Alton Brown and it normally doesn't have aliens.

I have also been thinking of how I want to write the TSC in the big picture. I believe trilogies or tetrologies that follow the same theme but not neccisarily the same characters is the way to go. So there will be a trilogy hopefully for each of the sentient races, construction, illegal space exploration and scientific rebellion.

Welcome to Museum.

In case you didn't know besides my ideas revolving around the TSC and Flesh Frozen (which now has a six episode outline thank you very much) I have had another one brewing in the back of my mind for some time now. It is called Welcome to Musuem and it deals with a planet situated far out in the reaches of space. This would not only cover new ground in my ideas but would also be somewhat of an alternate history aswell. You see this planet now known universally as Museum is a museum to all of the lost civilizations of the universe but when sales go down and less civilizations disapear action must be made. Long story short worlds are destroyed by Museums main sentient race a group of large manray like creatures who slide along the chared ground of the planet sucking up nutrients. Soon enough Earth becomes a target and no Earth doesn't defend itself like it would now because the year is 1917 and things are not quite up to date. This is the basic outline of the story but it also deals with alien human recreation, dinosaurs and a lot space travel and unlike TSC would be much less mysterious with science.

Uplift your physics Brin.

I recently became interested in the author David Brin who is famous for writting the two uplift trilogies. The books deal with species uplifting other close to sapient species to the point where they can create civilization and starships and the works. The only species never to have been uplifted are humans who speculate they may have been and that the answer lies in the core of the sun. Everything takes place in the five galaxies (five galaxies)and there is communication between many different races. David Brin is considered a hard SF writer but it occured to me he uses many cheats.For one there is FTL travel otherwise cross galaxy travel would be impractical and every single planet they go to has an oxygen atmosphere. How is this hard? What makes up for these two facts? I plan to find by reading Startide Rising his supposes magnum opus... But well see.

My Enemy List.

(10) Samantha Chastain (badder brained student actress)
(9) Chloe the violin players mother (brash, loud and clearly making up for her underachievment through her daughter)
(8) Tachyon Particles (Star Trek thinks they can use them for everything... Well they can't!)
(7) Rachel Ray (If you know who she is you know why)
(6) Janice Vong (See below with Casey Babcock)
(5) Casey Babcock (Both she and Janice Vong stole my academic thunder by becoming valedictorians while I was off by a mere 0.03 credits from also recieving that honor. And then while I offered them a fantastic speech they wrote their own which involved the deaths of several teenagers who were killed at a rave down the street from our school on a weekend! What the hell does that have to do with middle school? Also they like Chastain were badder brains... And mean to boot)
(4) Kate Lorenzini (When my humanities teacher Ms. Morin left after the first semister of this school year on maternity leave she was replaced by Ms. Lorenzini a pratencious, bossy, cottoned eared bully who would not listen to reason)
(3) Ms. Bowers ( Lzini's doppelganher)
(2) Anthony (The only enemy to become an ally and the most worthy opponent I have ever known. We both during fifth grade were part of seperate armies and duked it out in strategic mind battles. Once he left my school little was known of his whereabouts until grade seven when we realized the stakes were so bad for the both of us that we had to join forces. We have been allies ever since)
(1) Nick Beaven (The only person ever to get me into trouble, a briber, a pissant, a lyer, a snot nosed pretencious, trying to be PC brat. That is a mere chip off the tip of the ice berg for Nick Beaven. Not only does he attend the hell hole that is SAS but his parents offered him his own condominium. He is my age. And he is just so unpleasent to be around it makes me want to vomit. Yes there is my number one enemy... Nick Beaven.