Space! The final frontier!

Shield of Tomorrow!

2017-09-03 Jacques Space! The final frontier!

I warned you this blog was going to feature too much Star Trek, right? I also said I’d be blathering on (at length) about roleplaying games. But this is the NerdVerse, so of course there has to be a topic that allows me to combine them. And now there is![…]

The importance of Curiosity, Rover Extraordinaire

2017-09-02 Jacques Space! The final frontier!

The NASA Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 5 years. Isn’t that something? I remember reading about the complicated procedure for launching and then landing it. As a Star Trek nerd, I still consider it an excellent demonstration of how thinking about space exploration can make us better people.[…]