Considering the Sheer Number of Cretaceous Intelligences (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) When discussing Earth’s plethora of pre-human sentient species, by necessity the discussion keeps going back to what paleoarchaeologists refer to as “the Cretaceous Conglomerate,” the surprising number of intelligent and technologically advanced species inhabiting our planet between 140 and 66 million years before the present era. The Pleistocene and Anthropocene epochs of the…
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St. Remedius Medical College: "Junk In the Goldilocks Zone"
The Problems With Tracking Space Junk When It May Not Be Junk (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Space around and near Earth is a crowded place. By most estimates, some 2000 active human satellites orbit the planet, with an additional 3000 defunct ones, and approximately 34,000 pieces of artificial space junk larger than 10 centimeters floating between Earth and its moon. When counting incipient meteors,…
Backstories: Review of The Miniature Gardening Prop Shop by Janit Calvo
Hints as to the future of St. Remedius (Originally appearing as a review of The Gardening In Miniature Prop Shop by Janet Calvo) If the radical expansion of land surface on Earth during the Late Cretaceous had been just a bit slower, we wouldn’t have had a problem. One sentient species derived from dinosaurian ancestors, we could have handled. As it turned out, though, Earth didn’t produce one species of…