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For those of us science fiction fans who grew up in the 1960's, Star Trek was the premier TV show. If you wanted to go somewhere fast, warp speed was about the fastest way anyone knew how to travel. This was at least augmented, but certainly not replaced, in the 1970's in the movie "Star Wars" by going to hyperspace in the Millennium Falcon.

The problem with the 1970's Star Wars movie and the Millennium Falcon is that there is a line in the movie that is just wrong! If you will recall, Hans Solo described his ship, the Millennium Falcon, as the "ship that made the Kessel run in less than three parsecs!" So what's wrong with that?

As I have explained to my astronomy classes on many occasions, a 'parsec' is a unit of distance*, not time. Within this context, Solo didn't have a clue, nor did his script writers. Oh well...

While certainly not quite yet at full 'warp', the ancient instrument panel on this defunct tractor does indeed seem frozen in time. According...

Photography is all about using light to capture the emotion and beauty of a fleeting moment. For me, this adventure began with a single spring image using a small Kodak film camera of a freshly watered central Kansas ditch and has come full circle using modern digital techniques. My first camera was acquired by trading an ancient Royal typewriter to a fellow college student who was desperate to finish a term paper. It was a long time ago and that camera was my passport to an art that has fascinated me ever since. I owned and operated a professional studio in central Kansas for 20 years and moved to Colorado in 1994. Part of the studio's early success came from creating outdoor portraiture using controlled lighting...