(It was so cute watching the rangers artfully dodge arguments about whether Pluto is a planet during their demonstrations.)
Also it was a good thing that I didn't bring my wallet into the gift shop because they had things like this cute little guy.
After a wonderful weekend of promotion and fun in the City of the Angels this is one pooped author. Met some wonderful people who I will introduce later but for now here is a pretty picture of the Griffith Observatory. Built specifically with earthquakes in mind it is probably the safest place to be in L.A. when the ground starts shaking as well as being a center of learning and knowledge.
(It was so cute watching the rangers artfully dodge arguments about whether Pluto is a planet during their demonstrations.) Also it was a good thing that I didn't bring my wallet into the gift shop because they had things like this cute little guy.
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More details to come later but last night in Burbank, CA I was privileged to meet Peter Mark Richmond. Probably best known for his leading role in "Cain's Hundred" Richmond has been acting since the 50's and has guest starred in over 500 movies and TV shows. He was in Star Trek The Next Generation episode "The Neutral Zone"
There is a basic rule in Science Fiction that any science presented in a fictional manner is grossly over-simplified. One basic reason for this is that from a five-hundred word essay to the longest Peter Jackson Blockbuster there is simply not enough time or space to give any scientific theory sufficient development be it Newtonian gravity or faster than light gravity. There is another related reason, scientific theories can be clean and simple but observed reality rarely is. The tests that crime scene investigators run frequently give false positives and false nagitives; to the point that even fingerprint data is being called into question in some circles.
As for my little corner of science it should be fairly simple right? I identify plants. Plants that for the most part have been documented for two to ten hundred years. Should be if not easy than at least straightforward right? Well the third or fourth step in any identification book is to count the number of petals. Five petals means one thing and six or four or three means something else. Then nature throws me a flowering plant with five and six or five and four petals on the same stem...Seriously count em up. Science, the nitty-gritty hands on version, always finds a way to throw you for a loop. Is there anything cuter than a marmot baby? Feel free to contradict me by posting links to cuter pictures.
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AuthorBetty Adams is an up and coming author with a bent for science and Sci-fi. Archives
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