At approximately 915 MST on Sunday, July 11, 2021, billionaire Richard Branson became the first person to finance his own trip into outer space. Video from his time in space showed an…
Category: science fiction
The United States Probes Back: America tackles UFOs
Just over one year ago, on June 17, 2020, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Watching Too Much Television ordered the US Intelligence Community (IC) to put together a report on…
“Have you looked at the sky lately?” (Part 1) The Bionic Man and America’s space program: Did a Soviet Union “death probe” provide the technology for NASA’s Mars rovers?
This is the latest installment of Damper Three’s award-wanting investigative series, The True Costs of the Six Million Dollar Man, which seeks to unearth the truth behind the development and use…
What to say to your sanctimonious time-travelling future self when he tries to stop you from doing something cool
Time pieces pic by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash. Pic of man by George Hodan on https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/ It happens to all of us, eventually. If you’ve avoided it so far, then congratulations. But your luck…
An in-depth look at China’s Zhurong Mars Rover
On 14 May 2021, China became only the second nation to successfully land a remote-controlled rover on the surface of Mars.* Damper 3’s scieneticians have poured over everything we could find in…
Godzilla vs. Kong: Do you like your monster gorilla rare or well done?
Like the rest of the world, I saw the newly released Godzilla Vs. Kong trailer this past week. If you missed it, you can check it out below: From the snippets and…
Monster Monday: Choose your monster!
Today’s Monster Monday pairs up the classic Creature From the Black Lagoon against the aliens from Signs! Choose your monster wisely!
Buck Rogers in the 19th …er, 25th Century
Let’s start off by acknowledging that Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is a blast. A sleek scifi television show (and close cousin of Battlestar Galactica) riding the wave of Star Wars…
This May the 4th, Give the Stormtrooper His Due
If you grew up in the 1970s or early 1980s, odds are you at some point dressed as a Stormtrooper for Halloween. You had to, even if you loved the good guys….
Not Politics: Why Rose Tico Should Have Been a Really Cool Character in The Last Jedi
Let’s get a few things straight right now about the much maligned Rose Tico. The character was boring. She added very little to The Last Jedi, and her memorable moments were…