Orwell’s Twenty Twenty-Four: London police chief warns online speech crackdown not limited to UK

Orwell’s Twenty Twenty-Four: London police chief warns online speech crackdown not limited to UK

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 12, 2024 Whether he went on with the diary … made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed … the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. — Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Better watch what you say online […]

The sky, August 10-18: The Perseid 2-day blitz

The sky, August 10-18: The Perseid 2-day blitz

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 10, 2024 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 ■ It’s peak Perseid meteor night! And maybe the first of two. The actual peak of the shower is supposed to be from about 13h to 16h UT on the 12th, which is 9 a.m. to noon on the 12th Eastern Daylight Time; 6 […]

Foreshadowing a 21st century Bolshevik Revolution in the USA?

Foreshadowing a 21st century Bolshevik Revolution in the USA?

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 9, 2024 Hundreds of activists toting hammer and sickle red flags marched through Philadelphia on July 28 and called for a “class war” to overthrow capitalism in the United States. The Revolutionary Communists of America said the Philly march followed its founding congress in the city over the weekend. On its […]

China weighs ‘low cost’ space combat station to control Earth-Moon system

China weighs ‘low cost’ space combat station to control Earth-Moon system

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 8, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A curious article from the 2023 volume of China’s Journal of Deep Space Exploration (JDSE) appears to compare the merits of two modes of transport to the Moon, direct ascent with a super heavy space launch vehicle (SLV) versus a relay system using a small […]

The sky, Aug. 4-11: Here come the Perseid meteors

The sky, Aug. 4-11: Here come the Perseid meteors

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 5, 2024 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 ■ New Moon (exact at 7:13 a.m. on this date EDT). ■ The T Cor Bor Watch continues. Have you been checking Corona Borealis overhead these clear evenings? The recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis could erupt to 2nd magnitude anytime this summer. Or fall. […]

Bending minds and virtual reality about an attempted assassination with global implications

Bending minds and virtual reality about an attempted assassination with global implications

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 1, 2024 Many Google users have discovered and posted that the tech behemoth’s “Autocomplete” and search function was omitting suggested results related to the assassination attempt against Donald Trump even as a steady stream of new information about the July 13 incident that could have changed world history has been published […]

How China is seeking global leverage as Moon race accelerates

How China is seeking global leverage as Moon race accelerates

Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 30, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is heating up its race with the United States to dominate the Moon, by proposing to increase its “Moon coalition” and by moving ahead with its initial Moon architecture. On July 21, in coordination with the United Nations’ designation of July 20 as International […]

The sky, July 28-Aug. 3: Open clusters M6 and M7 in the South

The sky, July 28-Aug. 3: Open clusters M6 and M7 in the South

Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 29, 2024 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SATURDAY, JULY 27 ■ Last-quarter Moon (exact at 10:52 p.m. EDT). The Moon, in Pisces, rises around 11 or midnight tonight below the head of Andromeda and the Great Square of Pegasus. SUNDAY, JULY 28 ■ Starry Scorpius is sometimes called “the Orion of Summer” — […]