February’s story is now available; Chris Nakashima-Brown spins us a near-future post-mediapocalyptic mind-bender about celebrity, freedom, America and meaning in “R.P.M.”.
R.P.M.
by Chris Nakashima-Brown
The 1994 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS hurtles south down Cahuenga after midnight, jury-rigged engine exhaling the throaty rasp of an emphysemic Olympian. Urban interceptor, an abandoned rental reclaimed as instrument of revolution.
Or at least that’s what 0z0 said the night before as he drilled holes in the muffler to amplify the effect.
I was pretty upset to hear that Hubble’s main imaging system is down again, possibly permanently – now where am I going to get fresh desktop wallpapers from? However, it seems that Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, is shaping up well – Centauri Dreams explains how it uses microscopic shutters to milk far more from its 8 million pixels than that DSLR you got for Christmas can manage.
An Iranian space launcher is assembled and ready to launch soon. If successful, it would mean Iran has Intercontinental Ballistic Missile capability. It would also allow them to launch their own spy satellites.
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