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Brian H. Gill
I was born in 1951. I'm a husband, father and grandfather. One of the kids graduated from college in December, 2008, and is helping her husband run businesses and raise my granddaughter; another is a cartoonist and artist; #3 daughter is a writer; my son is developing a digital game with #3 and #1 daughters. I'm also a writer and artist.
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Monthly Archives: September 2023
Unidentified Phenomena, Being Human, Taking Reality As-Is
NASA’s “UAP Independent Study Team Report” used the words stigma, destigmatize, or destigmatizing about a dozen times. At 31 mostly-text pages, that works out to one of those words every two and a half pages. That’s nowhere near the frequency … Continue reading
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OSIRIS-REx’s SRC is Back: Snapshots from Utah
An ‘up’ side to my parish’s new Mass schedule is that it gets me back home a few minutes after 9:00 a.m. Usually. Today we had a baptism, so it was about 9:30 when I returned. But that left me … Continue reading
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UAPs/UFOs: Collect Data, THEN Draw Conclusions
…NASA’s new UAP report, attitudes, assumptions; and, finally, … the legacy of “Killers from Space”…. Continue reading
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Silly Headlines and Space Aliens, Serious Science and UAPs
Monday, I wondered what I was going to write about this week. Then I read that scientists found methane and carbon dioxide in a not-really-Earth-like planet’s atmosphere — and saw a silly headline or two. Normally, that’d be more than … Continue reading
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Prescription Quest: Another Month’s Epic Saga
First, the good news. Two days of this month’s quest for a prescribed medication have passed without incident. I’ve asked my pharmacy to request legal authorization: so that they may sell me another month’s supply of methylphenidate. They’ll also be … Continue reading
