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Scientists have long wondered why our universe is not full of interstellar civilizations. We listen and all we hear is silence. To obtain star flight all civilizations must follow the same path, that path leading to understanding the very currents of space and time itself. There are only two ways th...

I run podcasts while I'm out working in my shop. I'd been catching up on old Drabblecasts when I came across this one. A great story - it built slowly and then suddenly went in an entirely unexpected direction. Yeah, I'm going to have to read some more Utley.

I wouldn't eat Soylent Green. It's nasty stuff. The meat has way too many hormones and preservatives in it to be healthy.

In all her years on Earth, and yes she has seen many of them, Val never experienced anything as wonderful or convenient as the internet. Facebook is her favorite. She has cultivated many Facebook friends and she shares with them many pictures of her beautiful home. Val's Facebook friends all know th...

Absolutely!

After geneticists at Monsanto discovered how to revert chicken beaks to dinosaur jaws, it was not that much more difficult to complete the reversion process. The scientists viewed it as interesting research. The marketing department had other ideas. "Every kid is going to want one." cried Harry Seem...

It was news when geneticists reverted chicken beaks to dinosaur jaws. Continued research made it into emergency news.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150512 ... f-dinosaur

"Your President flies a spaceship?"

Norm's monolog was particularly brilliant this episode.

The first working bullshit detector was outlawed as a threat to the public good. Of course we all knew that was bullshit.

The aliens said that humanity is too violent to join the Federation. Of course we couldn't let an insult like that stand.

Google ads are amazing. This girl I met one night told me that she started seeing ads for maternal clothes before she even realized that she was pregnant. It turns out that pregnant women look at common health care products and Google extrapolated. Sometimes it seems like these new technologies know...

Not too surprisingly, some of E.T.A. Hoffman's tales are used in Offenbach's the Tales of Hoffman though they were modified for the opera. In the second story Hoffman falls in love with Dr. Coppelius's wind up mechanical doll Olimpia. The third act is (with the famous Barcarolle) is set in a Venetia...

Thanks - the idea was inspired by Offenbach's The Tale's of Hoffman. The opera has three acts and in each of them Hoffman's muse/foil tears away the women that Hoffman loves and makes him suffer so as to drive him to greater creativity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4xaEROTSUA Incidentally¸ E.T.A...

The mud in the trench has turned to ice. The cold has taken the edge off the smell of decomposition. I've lived in this hell for two years now. We go over the top. Artillery shells explode above us. Suddenly, red hot agony cuts through me. As I fall I see my blood splashing the ground before everyth...

The doctor spoke sympathetically.

"I'm sorry, but your son is... musical."

The man turned pale. His wife wept quietly.

Probably doesn't work on the 1/10th of the 1% though.

"He may not look like it," Sam said, "but this little guy's a big money maker. Our clients sell big ticket items. Research demonstrates that when people are depressed they can dramatically overspend on a product." The puppy was adorable. Sam hit it with a hammer. It yelped then lay twitching. Blood ...

And feeding.

Thanks! Medieval beliefs and cutting edge physics seem like an odd mix but I thought I'd see if they can work together.