Star Trek Of Gods And Men Part 3 Released!

FINALLY now I can put all three parts of Star Trek Of Gods And Men on a DVD and watch it all the way thru, which I have done today. It was the ideal tribute to 40 years of Star Trek and it was entertaining. The effects were great and the story threw in all kinds of nods to different original series episodes such as Charlie X, Where No Man Has Gone Before, City On The Edge Of Forever, even the Way To Eden! Sure, the plot is one used in Star Trek before, notably Yesterday’s Enterprise, a Next Generation episode, one of the best time travel stories in all of Trek. This story was a What If Kirk’s Mother was killed before he was born story, and rumor is this plot is similar to next year’s Star Trek XI Movie plot. Sometimes I wonder what they’re smoking at Paramount that they wouldn’t want to back this project. The DVD sales would go through the roof! Oh, yeah, I can’t forget the sets of OGAM! Fortunately the film was shot on the sets of Star Trek Phase II, formerly New Voyages, and the bridge set was fantastic, and so was the rest of the ship, from the bridge to the transporter room, to auxiliary control. It felt like a Constitution Class Starship through every part of the film, even though some of the effects were less than impressive, it did not detract from the good time I had watching it all the way through for the first time. If Paramount were wise they’d also back the Star Trek Phase II Episodes. With content like that Paramount could really be a force on the internet, as well as television and cinema. Anyway, on to the space battle – It was glorious! Klingon, Romulan and Galactic Order battleships blew each other up all over the sector! If you’re a Trek fan you owe it to yourself to spend a little time in the 23rd Century and see all 3 parts of this series.

Ace and the Jaguars Kick Ass in Albion Michigan

I viewed and listened to all the musical talent in Albion downtown today and in my opinion, Ace and the Jaguars were the best. These guys have been playing for years and if you’re looking for a new act that’s energetic and different, these guys are it. If I could collect a small finders fee that’ll be enough for me.

Large ‘Planet X’ May Lurk Beyond Pluto By Ker Than Special to SPACE.com posted: 18 June 2008 10:21 am ET

Large ‘Planet X’ May Lurk Beyond Pluto By Ker Than Special to SPACE.com posted: 18 June 2008 10:21 am ET

An icy, unknown world might lurk in the distant reaches of our solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto, according to a new computer model.

The hidden world — thought to be much bigger than Pluto based on the model — could explain unusual features of the Kuiper Belt, a region of space beyond Neptune littered with icy and rocky bodies. Its existence would satisfy the long-held hopes and hypotheses for a “Planet X” envisioned by scientists and sci-fi buffs alike.

“Although the search for a distant planet in the solar system is old, it is far from over,” said study team member Patryk Lykawka of Kobe University in Japan.

The model, created by Lykawka and Kobe University colleague Tadashi Mukai, is detailed in a recent issue of Astrophysical Journal.

If the new world is confirmed, it would not be technically a planet. Under a controversial new definition adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) last week, it would instead be the largest known “plutoid.”

The Kuiper Belt contains many peculiar features that can’t be explained by standard solar system models. One is the highly irregular orbits of some of the belt’s members.

The most famous is Sedna, a rocky object located three times farther from the sun than Pluto. Sedna takes 12,000 years to travel once around the Sun, and its orbit ranges from 80 to 100 astronomical units (AU). One AU is equal to the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

According to the model, Sedna and other Kuiper Belt oddities could be explained by a world 30 to 70 percent as massive as Earth orbiting between 100 AU and 200 AU from the sun.

At that distance, any water on the world’s surface would be completely frozen. However, it might support a subsurface ocean like those suspected to exist on the moons Titan and Enceladus, said Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona.

“The interesting thing for me is the suggestion of the kinds of very interesting objects that may yet await discovery in the outer solar system,” said Sykes, who was not involved in the study. “We are still scratching the edges of that region of the solar system, and I expect many surprises await us with the future deeper surveys.”