Dark Horizons on Wattpad

  for anyone interested and on Wattpad my four part short story Dark Horizons is now on Wattpad: Dark Horizons on Wattpad Simon 🙂

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Creating my Own Universe

I've been thinking about creating cover art and (hopefully) book covers for some time. The big thing with this is how to go about it, I couldn't work it out and I'm quite a creative person. That was until I read this from Christoper Doll: Drawing a spaceship a day Now, while I'm not drawing a...

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Short Stories

Over the last couple of years I've written a number of short and not so short stories and trying to give them the visibility they deserve is a bit hard when they're hidden behind a menu system on my blog page. So I've put as many of them as I can find on this post and I'm going to pin it on my page. Many of them aren't finished, but you know - Rome wasn't built in a day and all that.

50 Years Ago: One Small Step, One Giant Leap | NASA

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins awoke to start their fifth day in space at the end of their ninth revolution around the Moon. In Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center, now the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Eugene F. Kranz’s White Team of controllers arrived on...

The Nightfall Dance

Dancing all around me like tiny ghosts of the night,Standing and watching, listening, there's nothing but silence,Evan as you shoot past my ear I can't tell that you even exist, playfully carrying on your twilight dance as if I don't.So close as if daring me to hear your call, your shadow, fleeting in the glow...

Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn’t Exist | NASA

As if black holes weren't mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away.  The conundrum is that the disk shouldn't be there, based on current...

Space Travel – What good is it to the Human Race?

Yesterday NASA completed a successful test of the abort system of the Orion spacecraft, this is just one headline in a whole list of announcements in space exploration. Whether it's Space X, NASA or Blue Origin someone, somewhere is heading back to the Moon with a view to getting to Mars. https://youtu.be/4rfsDMGplZU But why?Many say...

Weekly Orbit – Blog Date 28-2019

The Beginning of Infinite Hi there bloggies! I'm still here I promise...I have to say I was hoping that I would get a little more of a run up with the new look blog but things have conspired to keep me to busy to update the blog. For those of you that that don't already...

Even the Insignificant has Significance

I've often portrayed this universe as so immense, humanity so small.Insignificant.So what's the point?If we're so small and the universe so big why do we struggle to achieve and create?Just remember... Solar Eclipse - No credit claimed on Image - Credit NASA Even a world as insignificant as the Moon can block out the mighty...

Weekly Orbit – Blog Date 26-2019

The Beginning of Infinite Hi there bloggies! I'm back!For those of you that weren't about last week I'll just update you with a few things. Firstly this is not Planet Simon anymore - the name of the blog has changed to Beyond the Infinite and as I explained it's been a long time coming. My...

Invader

This is my entry for June's Blog Battle - the theme or word for this month is Corona. Andit stopped for a moment, the mid morning sun sun forcing him to take off his jacket and tie it round his waist. Even with the forest as some shelter the heat would soon become too much...

Creating a blog strategy that engages with your audience

Only a few days ago I posted that I had changed my blog identity and that I'm going to be working on it as a brand and I have a number of ideas around this. You can see the post here: Planet Simon rebranded to Beyond the InfiniteBut what does this mean? What is a...

Beyond the Infinite

In 2001 a Space Odyssey Dave Bowman leaves the spaceship Discovery and enters the Monolith star gate. This chapter of the book is called Beyond the Infinite. That's the name that I chose to re-name this blog to - ditching the old name of Planet Simon and creating a whole new identity for this blog....

Weekly Orbit – Blog Date 25-2019

Planet Simon - The end and a New Beginning Hi there bloggies! I'm back!Those of you that are regular bloggies will have known that I've not been about for a couple of weeks. There's a few reasons for this most of which is that I've been doing stuff and secondly I've been working out what...

Take part in the next Mars mission by adding your name!

One of the things I've come to realise is that I will not be an astronaut, I will not walk on the Moon and I will not walk on Mars. I'm too old and to be brutally honest to myself I would cost to much to launch! I was ind of born a few generations...

Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit – Blog Date 23-2019

Planet Simon - Me and the World (The saga continues) Hi there bloggies! Regular bloggies to Planet Simon would have noticed something - nothing much. At least from Planet Simon. I made up for it slightly later in the week with my Blog Battle Story - more on that later.For this bit I'm kind of...

Capsule Echo

This is my entry for May's Blog Battle - the theme or word for this month is Airtight. There was no light, just the darkness of the space around him. The only sensation that Mitchell knew was his breath. In... out... in... out. Thank God I'm breathing his mind started coming around. Then there were...

Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit – Blog Date 22-2019

Planet Simon - Me and the World (The following week) Hi there bloggies! So last week was again quiet for me, it's a bit of a hiatus especially after last week weekly orbit where I threw into the mix that I had no idea what I was doing, why for what reason and all of...

Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit – Blog Date 21-2019

Planet Simon - Me and the World Hi there bloggies! I've been quiet these last couple of weeks and I've been thoughtful. That's why this post is out on a Wednesday rather than the usual Monday, I wanted to ping something out becasue if I'm honest - I have no idea what the hell I'm...

Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit – Blog Date 20-2019

Hi there bloggies! Over there it's a public, holiday the first of two that happen in May, just because it's May. It's kinda nice really. But that also means there's logistical challenges to getting getting the weekly orbit out. But here we are and it's going well!How are all your Monday's? What challenges do you...

Fictioneering – The Power of Consistency

World building is hard at the best of times, creating news worlds, rules people, inventing a new society with all it rules is quite a challenge. As a writer this world there for the reader to discover in stories and through characters. This world need to be consistent in all the stories that are written,...

InSight Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Mars | NASA

A camera on the Insight's robotic arm snapped the photos on April 24 and 25, the 145th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In local Mars time, the shots were taken starting around 5:30 a.m. and then again starting around 6:30 p.m. As a bonus, a camera under the lander's deck also caught clouds...

Planet Simon’s Weekly Orbit – Blog Date 19-2019

Hi there bloggies! Over there it's a public, holiday the first of two that happen in May, just because it's May. It's kinda nice really. But that also means there's logistical challenges to getting getting the weekly orbit out. But here we are and it's going well!How are all your Monday's? What challenges do you...

The edge of the Universe isn’t the end.

This is another great post from Steph of the Irresponsible Blogger. What lies at the edge of the universe?

What lies at the very end of creation and is it the end? It’s inspiring!

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I’m Mesmerized… Guys this post is a long one but stay with me!!♥️♥️🌹

Ya know what it is for me…I NEED to understand infinite. When we talk INFINITE, forever, never-ending..it triggers the word ‘recycle” in my mind. I immediately begin to ask myself WHERE does our universe end. Through intricate calculations using Astrophysics, Astrologists have determined that there could indeed be an ending to our universe BUT this “ending” would be located no closer than 46 BILLION LIGHT-YEARS from our own galaxy. (I know many Astrologists prefer Parsecs which is basically just working with a larger number of light-years- like 3.26 light-years-but those numbers go way over my head so I stick to the basic “distance of light traveled over a year” light-year)Now we already know that 1 light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles so let’s multiply 46,000,000,000 by 5,900,000,000,000 and what the flip is that number!
Well I’ll be…

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Happy Star Wars Day 2019!

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Pale Blue Dot

The Pale Blue Dot represents a goal not just point of light. When man can look back and see that same pale blue dot with his own eyes, it's will be the first step in truly understanding the place of humanity in the universe.

A – Z Challenge – Sci-Fi Films Z is for Enders Game

Hi there bloggies, I've been seeing some post warning me of an A - Z Challenge and I was curious. I've seen this around before but have never participated, for some mad reason I thought I would give it a go.So here I am.My theme is the A-Z of Scifi moves, I've not given this...

A – Z Challenge – Sci-Fi Films The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Hi there bloggies, I've been seeing some post warning me of an A - Z Challenge and I was curious. I've seen this around before but have never participated, for some mad reason I thought I would give it a go.So here I am.My theme is the A-Z of Scifi moves, I've not given this...