Image provided by PIXABAYThis month Aphelion Webzine in their FLASH FICTION DEPARTMENT has published “Roswell.” This is one of our popular Jerry/Buck stories.Please GOTO &nb&hell…Read More

Photo contributed by PIXABAYAphelion Webzine has published my story “One Man’s Meat” by C.E. Gee.This story is a combination of SCIENCE FICTION and police procedural.Please… Read More

Image provided by Wikipedia    “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, shall all hang seperately".   -- Ben Franklin  MESSAGE from PA… Read More

Greetings:After World War II the U.S. became a shining beacon of light and hope, world leader both in innovation and culture.Populated by military veterans who spent years fighting overseas… Read More

NASA to make final attempt to contact Mars Opportunity Rover:  CLICK HERE.US space agency NASA will make one final attempt to contact its Opportunity Rover on Mars late Tuesday, eight m… Read More

C.E GeeYesterday February 6, 2019 Conan’s late night show  on WTBS featured a coffee serving robot.Given this blog’s Science Fiction stories featuring robots, we highly reco… Read More

Photo provided by GLENDA SHELTON COXTop right is Wayne Cox, Glenda's husband and my best friend when we were in the 8th grade at Kinzua Grade School and thru football season as freshmen at W… Read More

Understanding apocalyptic events through literature: Click here. In recent years, we have seen an epic scale of destruction caused by war, terrorism, global warming, famine and the obli… Read More

In 1968, Apollo 8 realized the 2,000-year-old dream of a Roman philosopher:  Click here.Half a century of Christmases ago, the NASA space mission Apollo 8 became the first manned craft… Read More

Rotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel: Click here. One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dime… Read More

NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed: Click here. A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed b… Read More

Greetings:There is just one person who can save the Republican Party from disaster.Condoleeza Rice served President George W. Bush as Secretary of State and NSA Adviser.In the looming 2020 P… Read More

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My wyfe and I are long in the tooth; she was born in the mid-twentieth century. Me?  Just a tad before.You young folks will discover this someday, in the mid-afternoons my wyfe and I ta… Read More

Fighting climate change in the shadow of Mount Everest: Formed in the shadow of Mount Everest, the turquoise depths of Nepal’s Imja glacial lake would be a breathtaking miracle of natu… Read More

NASA deep space probe reaches asteroid deemed potential Earth threat: CLICK HERE. NASA’s deep space explorer Osiris-Rex flew on Monday to within a dozen miles of its destination… Read More

UNDER THE BANYAN TREE WITH PAPPY:We encourage you to do your own research on Christmas.GOOGLE is a good place to start.GOOGLE “actual date of Jesus birth”GOOGLE “winter sol… Read More

NASA selects nine US companies to vie for moon program funding: CLICK HERE. NASA on Thursday named nine U.S. companies, including Lockheed Martin Corp, that will compete for funding und… Read More

Inspired by sci-fi, an airplane with no moving parts and a blue ionic glow: CLICK HERE. Since their invention more than 100 years ago, airplanes have been moved through the air by the s… Read More

Why people become vegans: The history, sex and science of a meatless existence:CLICK HERE. At the age of 14, a young Donald Watson watched as a terrified pig was slaughtered on his fami… Read More

Our Margaret As University Professor stories are extremely popular.We’ve put them here in this blog post according to their Chronological order.This way as you read them you can witnes… Read More

How to drive a robot on Mars:  CLICK HERE. Some 78 million miles (126 million kilometers) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4&time&hell…Read More

For THROWBACK THURSDAY from 2009.This bartender was working away, polishing the top of the bar.A Priest, a Minister, and a Rabbi all walk through the door, together.The bartender looks up, t… Read More

Gail's on your left, I'm in the middle, am Buck in the stories, Jerry is on you're right. Missing is the android Connie, who actually was based upon Jerry's sister Bonnie.Listing of Jerry/Bu… Read More

Women voters drive Democratic House victories: CLICK HERE. U.S. women voters increased their support for Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives, providing an anticipated… Read More

Aphelion Webzine has published our story "FIRST FLIGHT."Please click here for FIRST FLIGHT by C.E. Gee.     This story involves a test pilot named Robin.  Her co-pilot is… Read More

How a trippy 1980s video effect might help to explain consciousness:  CLICK HERE.Explaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. Recent neuroscientifi… Read More

NASA's Dawn asteroid mission ends as fuel runs out: CLICK HERE. Dawn, a NASA spacecraft that launched 11 years ago and studied two of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, has ended… Read More

For THROWBACK THURSDAY.Ahhhhh. . . The Zombies, circa 1968. What a year that was; what a group that was; what a song that was!As the header states, It’s the “Time of the Season… Read More

Illuminating the ‘dark web’: CLICK HERE. In the wake of recent violent events in the U.S., many people are expressing concern about the tone and content of online communicat… Read More

The ancient origins of werewolves: For Halloween.  Click here.  The werewolf is a staple of supernatural fiction, whether it be film, television, or literature. You might think thi… Read More

One thing that Albert Einstein got wrong: Click here. Writing in 1926 Albert Einstein made a discovery of another’s scientist’s work which he thought was equal to his own ac… Read More

'Repent': Religious activist burns LGBTQ library books in protest against Pride Festival:CLICK HERE.Religious activist Paul Dorr recorded a video of him burning LGBTQ books in protest agains… Read More

Mercury mission to explore origin of Solar System: Click here. Is Mercury’s core liquid or solid, and why — on the smallest planet in our solar system — is it so big?… Read More

Congress takes first steps toward regulating artificial intelligence: CLICK HERE. Some of the best known examples of artificial intelligence are Siri and Alexa, which listen to human sp… Read More

New moon: China to launch lunar lighting in outer space: CLICK HERE. China is planning to launch its own ‘artificial moon’ by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electrici… Read More

Meet AICAN, a machine that operates as an autonomous artist: CLICK HERE.When artificial intelligence has been used to create works of art, a human artist has always exerted a significant ele… Read More

Chuck -- our head writer.   Back in the late 1960's, after returning from service in Vietnam, Chuck became a head.  Now he's just our head writer. I still read newspapers. Yes, my… Read More

Facebook not protecting content moderators from mental trauma: lawsuit: CLICK HERE. A former Facebook contract employee has lodged a suit against the company, alleging that content mode… Read More

'Foreign government' attempted to hack personal email accounts of multiple US Senators and staff: CLICK HERE.CNN report: CNN has confirmed that a foreign government attempted to hack th… Read More

Germany rolls out world's first hydrogen train:  CLICK HERE.Germany on Monday rolled out the world’s first hydrogen-powered train, signalling the start of a push to challenge the… Read More

Machines will do more tasks than humans by 2025:  CLICK HERE. Robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a World Economic Forum… Read More

Science fiction was around in medieval times – here’s what it looked like: CLICK HERE. Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered… Read More

SpaceX announces new plan to send tourist around Moon:  CLICK HERE. SpaceX on Thursday announced a new plan to launch a tourist around the Moon using its Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), a… Read More

Photo is of Cosmo Chuck (circa early 1970s) at ease in his Gleneden Beach, Oregon bachelor bungalow.  During that era and within the pictured room, Jerry and Chuck had many discussions… Read More

The following are excerpts from my weekly NFL Picks articles.   They are in no particular order; subsequently this article may seem somewhat disjointed.  But nonetheless, there are… Read More

Amazon eyes Chilean skies as it seeks to datamine the stars: CLICK HERE. Amazon.com is in talks with Chile to house and mine massive amounts of data generated by the country’… Read More

Image provided by PIXABAY, highly recommended if you needed artwork or photos for your works.Previously we posted an article concerning the progress women have made since the early 1970&rsqu&hell…Read More

Ten years of Large Hadron Collider discoveries are just the start of decoding the universe: CLICK HERE.Ten years! Ten years since the start of operations for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)… Read More

What on Earth could live in a salt water lake on Mars? An expert explains:  CLICK HERE.Tantalising new evidence has suggested that there may be a salty lake below a glacier on Mars. Whi… Read More

So my wife and I were watching TV news the other evening. The anchor made a comment about this being the ERA OF WOMEN. It most definitely is!If you’re near as ancient as I (born in 194… Read More

Russia says space station leak could be deliberate sabotage: Click Here. Russia launched checks Tuesday after its space chief said an air leak on the International Space Station last we… Read More

Pappy almost died in 2012 due to Vietnam (1968) injury. Photo taken by his daughter AndreaFARTHER STARS THAN THESE magazine has published my story “Final Journey” by C.E. GeeThis… Read More

Neil Armstrong film accused of being unpatriotic:  CLICK HERE.  Neil Armstrong’s sons and the director of a new biopic on the space hero are hitting back against criticism th… Read More

NASA chief excited about prospects for exploiting water on the moon:  CLICK HERE.NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has a vision for renewed and “sustainable” human explorat… Read More

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FOR THROWBACK THURSDAY -- from 2014.PERIHELION ONLINE SCIENCE FICTION has archived two stories of mine.“Repulsive Progression,”  published June, 2014 and “Dirty Work… Read More

Saga of early humans etched in DNA of mixed-species child: CLICK HERE. Denny was an inter-species love child. Her mother was a Neanderthal, but her father was Denisovan, a distinct spec… Read More

Sightings and satellites help track mysterious ocean giant:  CLICK HERE.The sight of a basking shark’s brooding silhouette gliding through the waters off western France is more th… Read More

NASA counts down to launch of first spacecraft to 'touch Sun': CLICK HERE. NASA counted down Friday to the launch of a $1.5 billion spacecraft that aims to plunge into the Sun’s s… Read More

Here's what elephants' unique brain structures suggest about their mental abilities:CLICK HERE. Conservationists have designated August 12 as World Elephant Day to raise awareness about… Read More

Aphelion Webzine in their Flash Fiction Department for August 2018 has published the SCIENCE FICTION story “FORESIGHT” by C.E. Gee.This story takes just one minute to read! It&rs&hell…Read More

Jeff Bezos throws cash, engineers at rocket program as space race accelerates:  CLICK HERE>Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is racing to pull his private space company out of start-up m… Read More

NASA names astronauts for first manned US space launches since 2011: CLICK HERE, NASA on Friday named nine astronauts for the first manned space launches from U.S. soil since the space… Read More

Sorry Elon Musk, but it's now clear that colonizing Mars is unlikely – and a bad idea: CLICK HERE. Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonizing Mars, based on a… Read More

What the early church thought about God’s gender:   CLICK HERE.          The Episcopal Church has decided to revise its 1979 prayer book, so that God… Read More

Einstein was right: astronomers confirm key theory: CLICK HERE. A consortium of astronomers said Thursday they had for the first time confirmed a prediction of Albert Einstein’s t… Read More

NASA prepares to fly probe into Sun's scorching atmosphere: CLICK HERE. NASA is preparing to send a probe closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft has ventured, enduring wicked heat… Read More

Images from PIXABAY, highly recommended! There is only one God. We are it.A forest is a forest because it’s filled with individual trees. A sea is a sea because it’s filled… Read More

Ghostly particles give scientists new understanding of universe:  CLICK HERE.A breakthrough in the study of ghostly particles called high-energy neutrinos that traverse space, zipping u… Read More

South Africa's MeerKAT to help unlock mysteries of universe: CLICK HERE. A scientific mega-project to unlock cosmic conundrums from dark energy to detecting extraterrestrial life was gi… Read More

Jeff Bezos plans to charge at least $200,000 for space rides - sources: CLICK HERE Jeff Bezos’ rocket company plans to charge passengers about $200,000 to $300,000 for its first t… Read More

Scientists discover a new source of neutrinos in space – opening up another window into the universe:CLICK HERE.Neutrinos – extremely light, ghostly particles that barely interac… Read More

For THROW BACK THURSDAY. From 2015This story is flash fiction, less than 1000 words long, takes under three minutes to read.Click here for "Kindred" by C.E. Gee was published APHELION WEBZI… Read More

As Arctic warms, reindeer herders tangle with new industries: CLICK HERE. When he’s not out on the Arctic tundra with his 2,000 reindeer, his dog and Whitney Houston blasting thro… Read More

Disgruntled ex-employee tried to sell Israeli cyber weapon on the dark web:  CLICK HERE. Pegasus, spyware designed to hack IOS Apple’s operating system, is capable of gatheri… Read More

Scientists create embryos, hope to save near-extinct rhino:  Months after the death of Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, scientists said Wednesday they have grown… Read More

Mars surface hardened quickly, boosting odds of life: study: CLICK HERE. The crust that encases rocky planets and makes possible the emergence of life took shape on Mars earlier than th… Read More

Aphelion Webzine in the SHORT STORIES DEPARTMENT of their July 2018 issue has published "THE CHAMPION" by C.E. Gee.Please click here to read THE CHAMPION. This story is a FANTASY that l… Read More

Man shoots gun at alien lasers that turn out to be fireflies: Click here. A Clinton County, Pennsylvania couple apparently got just a little too messed up on Saturday (police claim they… Read More

Here is why you don't have the right to believe whatever you want.:  CLICK HERE Do we have the right to believe whatever we want to believe? This supposed right is often claimed as… Read More

      The famed Science Fiction author Harlan Ellison passed away in late June of 2018.Harlan was the author of many works, most notably, early episodes of the TV series THE T… Read More

                          For THROWBACK THURSDAY. First published in 2014!              &n&hell…Read More

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is in trouble – but the ground beneath it may buy some time:CLICK HERE.Working in West Antarctica is profoundly humbling. We scientists work from tiny fiel… Read More

Stephen Hawking's voice to be beamed into space during memorial: CLICK HERE. A message from late British astrophysics giant Stephen Hawking will be beamed towards the nearest black hole… Read More

For THROWBACK THOR'S DAY, from 2011I heard this joke at a Seder. One of the people sitting at our table told it.  Even though I first heard it many years ago, it still amuses me.Questi… Read More

Antarctic thaw quickens, trillions of tons of ice raise sea levels:  CLICK HERE.An accelerating thaw of Antarctica has pushed up world sea levels by almost a centimeter since the early… Read More

Here are 5 founding fathers whose skepticism about Christianity would make them unelectable today:                          … Read More

Rumors concerning faked videos of the first known lunar landing are the gist of the story “Rebekah’s Relative” by C.E. Gee as published in the June 2018 issue of APHELION W… Read More

Tech firm busts Russian operatives for setting up new website to interfere with midterm elections: report:   Russian operatives with ties to a notorious “troll factory”… Read More

Wondrous dunes on Pluto are made of grains of frozen methane:  Scientists have detected another exotic feature on one of the solar system’s most wondrous worlds, a large field of… Read More

For THROWBACK THOR'S DAY -- from 2010So this blond has her car ( a 1960's muscle car she inherited from her Dad ) towed to a nearby dealership, complains to the service manager that said car… Read More

Super-intelligence and eternal life: transhumanism’s faithful follow it blindly into a future for the elite:CLICK HERE. The rapid development of so-called NBIC technologies &ndash&hell…Read More

Alan Bean, moon-walking US astronaut turned painter, dies in Houston:  American astronaut Alan Bean, who walked on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 12 mission and commanded a crew on… Read More

We're not prepared for the genetic revolution that's coming:  When humans’ genetic information (known as the genome) was mapped 15 years ago, it promised to change the world. Opti… Read More

Diamonds from a lost planet found on Earth:   October 7, 2008, an 80-ton asteroid (2008 TC3) entered the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded into hundreds of smaller meteorites a… Read More

This psychological factor can help explain why people become Flat Earthers and climate change deniers: Click here. Flat Earthism and the idea that human activity is not responsible for… Read More

Oxygen presence in distant galaxy sheds light on early universe: CLICK HERE. After detecting a whiff of oxygen, astronomers have determined that stars in a faraway galaxy formed 250 mil… Read More

Autobots roll out! - transforming robot unveiled in Japan: A Transformers-style, humanoid robot that can shape shift into a sports car in about 60 seconds was unveiled in Japan on Wedne… Read More

New evidence for water plumes on Jupiter's moon, Europa: Scientists presented further evidence Monday for water plumes on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, raising hopes of pr… Read More