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		<title>Hiring Asteroid Miners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 16:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Chmielewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moon exploration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astrogeologists still have to wait to leave Earth Recently, I received an email from Planetary Resources with the subject line, “Now hiring asteroid miners.” About time, it seemed to me. The e-mail said the company was looking for college students for co-op positions, and I thought of forwarding it to my niece studying geology at <a href="http://martiansands.com/hiring-asteroid-miners/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections from a July morning on a Florida beach, 1969</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Chmielewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mars exploration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moon exploration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We didn’t sleep much that night on the beach, my brother, my cousin and I – and several thousand other people. We kept staring across Indian River at that gleaming needle of white on the Atlantic shoreline of the Kennedy Space Center, a rocket bathed in the brilliant glare of searchlights that surrounded the launch <a href="http://martiansands.com/a-july-morning-on-a-florida-beach-1969/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>If we find life on Mars, is Mars off limits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Chmielewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mars exploration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Space news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Curiosity shakes off all the dust from landing and completes all its system checks, it will begin its one-year trek (by the Martian calendar) up Mount Sharp, with one of its aims to discover if Mars was ever habitable for primitive life. What if it was? Wow! Great, what a find! What if the <a href="http://martiansands.com/if-we-find-life-on-mars-is-mars-off-limits/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>“Wheels down on Mars”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Chmielewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That call at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed the rover and robotic laboratory Curiosity landed safely on Mars late Sunday night Pacific Time. An anxious crowd of controllers, engineers and scientists at the JPL control room erupted into cheers, applause, hugs and a collective sigh of relief that Curiosity survived the feared “seven minutes of <a href="http://martiansands.com/wheels-down-on-mars/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A machine will land, but the explorers are human</title>
		<link>http://martiansands.com/a-machine-will-land-but-the-explorers-are-human/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Chmielewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My posts on this site have stressed that good science fiction is not about machines and high tech. It’s about people. But what about science news? The big news right now out of NASA is about this weekend‘s landing of NASA’s Martian Science Laboratory, a car-sized, nuclear-powered rover called Curiosity. When it attempts to <a href="http://martiansands.com/a-machine-will-land-but-the-explorers-are-human/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Crowdfunding novel and audio drama</title>
		<link>http://martiansands.com/crowdfunding-novel-and-audio-drama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Chmielewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing sci-fi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kickstarter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sci-fi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a long time coming, but finally I’ve launched a Kickstarterr funding campaign to publish my novel, Lunar Dust, Martian Sands, and its audio short-story prequel, Shalbatana Solstice. I’ve been leading up to this for a while. In fact, for the novel, it’s been years. I believe now the timing is right, both <a href="http://martiansands.com/crowdfunding-novel-and-audio-drama/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A great day for physicists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Chmielewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[July 4 was one of those exceptional, watershed days for physicists. Years from now, a group of lucky physicists will still smugly tell colleagues and awe-inspired students, “I was there when they announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle.” The rest of us will likely go, “Huh?” You have to understand, this is a <a href="http://martiansands.com/a-great-day-for-physicists/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial dreams of space</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Chmielewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Space news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commercial spacecraft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dragon space capsule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dream Chaser spacecraft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new space race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scaled Composites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SpaceX]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new space race. It’s hard to tell who the leaders are as this new race is in its early stages. The entrants are still jockeying for position and getting used to the track. But the rest of this decade could be the beginning of an exciting time off Earth. Some politicians and <a href="http://martiansands.com/commercial-dreams-of-space/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tripping fantastic in hard sci-fi</title>
		<link>http://martiansands.com/tripping-fantastic-in-hard-sci-fi-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Chmielewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing sci-fi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[22nd century]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human element in sci-fi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hard sci-fi has a reputation for being almost exclusively about science and tech, with people only thrown in for context. I don’t buy it, and I don’t buy stories which take that approach. Unfortunately it’s a reputation reinforced by some authors who do embrace that idea and fill their stories with techno-overdrive. These authors meticulously <a href="http://martiansands.com/tripping-fantastic-in-hard-sci-fi-2/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Playboy and LEGO in space</title>
		<link>http://martiansands.com/playboy-and-lego-in-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Chmielewski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A century ahead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing sci-fi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two views of leisure in space came across the Martian Sands news feeds a couple of weeks back. One, reported on Space.com and a number of other news organizations, was the illustrated fantasy vision from Playboy and Virgin Galactic of the ultimate pleasure palace, or in this case wheel-shaped space station, going around the world <a href="http://martiansands.com/playboy-and-lego-in-space/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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