The Voyager Series
The official home of the Voyager Series. Find out what happens when Voyager 1 gets picked up by two itinerant spacecombers from Morys Minor...WUFOOB
woke up, fell out of bed
"I read the news today, oh boy."
A sincere and unequivocal attempt to make nonsense of a range of topical issues of the day...Short Stories
Here is a catalogue of my prose writings, including children's fiction, short stories, non-sequiturs and odd scraps of surrealism with or without a straightforward narrative. Don't believe me? Well, to prove it, here's a picture of a man being fired from a cannon:
Dark Matter
Scientists are racing to find dark matter in the universe. You may find some of it here in the form of conspiracy theories, dark secrets, sinister and bizarre tales...The Moonwalkers
The only people ever to have set foot on an astronomical object other than Earth...Featured Page
Tip Jar
The downloads on this site (e.g. pdf versions of Earthwatch and Shackleton's Shed) are free. If you would like to donate a small sum of money to be invested in the upkeep of the site then please scroll down to the bottom of this page and click on the 'Donate' button. Somebody sometime has got to make money from the internet. Let it be me.Awards
This intergalactically recognised award was presented to The Speed Of Dark Blog by The Speed Of Dark Awards Commission.
I am delighted to have been nominated for the 2012 Tony Blair Ducking Under The Bar Award for boldly raising the bar and diving under it. I knew I had the potential to be a great underachiever. 
I've racked up another prestigious award - the Eric Morecambe 'Mister Preview' Prize. According to the award citation, The Speed Of Dark Blog contains material that ranks with the finest literary works in history. All the right letters are there, but not necessarily in the right order. -
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Tag Archives: NASA
The sixth moonwalker dies
Edgar Mitchell, the sixth moonwalker Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, lunar module pilot on Apollo 14, has died. He passed away last Thursday in West Palm Beach, Florida, on the eve of the 45th anniversary of his lunar landing. Mitchell and Alan … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged Alan Shephard Jr, Edgar Mitchell, moonwalker, NASA
Through The Wormhole, Literally
Through The Wormhole, Literally Yes, the book is now available from Amazon! The Voyager 1 space probe was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, to study the outer solar system and, ultimately, interstellar space. It carried a gold-plated audio-visual … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Nonsense, Story, Voyager Series
Tagged Chuck Berry, Jimmy Carter, Johnny B Goode, Morys Minor, Mozart, NASA, Through The Wormhole Literally, Voyager 1, Voyager Series, wormhole
Woke up, fell out of bed …
Nasa and Russian astronauts put Ukraine tensions behind them on board ISS The Telegraph, Friday 28th March 2014 The Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American from Nasa made it to the International Space Station two days later than … Continue reading
Posted in Woke up, fell out of bed ...
Tagged Alexander Skvortsov, Crimea, ISS, NASA, Soyuz, Steve Swanson, Ukraine crisis
Greetings from Earth! Have you eaten yet?
The Speed Of Dark’s contribution to Christmas 2012 is a new short story called Santa Comes Down The Wormhole featuring our cherished aliens, smolin9 and polkingbeal67. One of my favourite bits is where smolin9 and polkingbeal67 listen to the greetings … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Nonsense, Science, Story
Tagged Amoy, Annie Druyan, Carl Sagan, golden record, Jimmy Carter, Kurt Waldheim, NASA, polkingbeal67, smolin9, Voyager, Xmas story
Earthwatch
The Pocket Pyramid Presented by polkingbeal67 & smolin9 Earthwatch presenters – polkingbeal67 & smolin9 “Join us to watch human life unfold on the Pale Blue Dot.” MMBC Earthwatch Highlights, interviews and analysis from Earth’s media NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, has … Continue reading
Posted in Earthwatch, Humour, Science
Tagged alpha particles, ChemCam laser, Chilloks, Curiosity, Curiosity rover, Earthwatch, extra-cholesterol, extra-terrestrial, Glenelg, Jake Matijevic, John Grotzinger, Mars, MMBC, Morys Minor Broadcasting Corporation, NASA, pale blue dot, polkingbeal67, pyramids, smolin9, spectrometer, X-rays
Earthwatch
Curiosity Presented by polkingbeal67 & smolin9 Earthwatch presenters – polkingbeal67 & smolin9 “Join us to watch human life unfold on the Pale Blue Dot.” MMBC Earthwatch Highlights, interviews and analysis from Earth’s media The most expensive unmanned probe ever to … Continue reading
Posted in Earthwatch, Humour, Science
Tagged Angry Birds, Curiosity, Earthwatch, goopmutts, Mars, Mars Science Laboratory, MMBC, Morys Minor Broadcasting Corporation, NASA, pale blue dot, polkingbeal67, ritual offering, satnav, seven minutes of terror, sky crane, smolin9, Stonehenge, Tom Rivellini, vitalmados
