January 2013

Doctor Who - Timelash

“Timelash” is an adventure of the twentysecond season of “Doctor Who” classic series which aired in 1985 featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri. It follows “The Two Doctors” and it’s a two parts adventure written by Glen McCoy and directed by Pennant Roberts.

Artistic concept of the construction of a large revolving asteroid-mining space station (Image courtesy Deeps Space Industries)

The American company Deep Space Industries, Inc. has announced its intention to extract minerals and water from asteroids. We know that asteroids, including the many that pass close to Earth called NEO (Near-Earth Objects), can contain a lot of water and minerals such as iron, gold, platinum, nickel and other useful both for the expansion of humanity into the solar system and for our needs on Earth.

Walter Michael Miller, Jr. was born on January 23, 1923 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. He had a short career as a science fiction writer in the ’50s then he retired. His masterpiece is the novel “A Canticle for Leibowitz”.