BASILISK STATION - A TRAVELLER BLOG

On May 1st from 7-11 pm Eastern, you can watch a unique charity event. We are running a streaming game in support of the Carcinoid Cancer Foundation . We want to bring awareness to these cancers that, on average, take five years to diagnose properly. By that time, many patients have suffered terribly. My wife was first diagnosed after five years of suffering ever more frequent, debilitating pain. The kind of pain that took the breath out of her, came from nowhere, and doubled her over in agony. It was heartbreaking to watch and having no ability to help her or even know what was going on. And we tried. Years of doctor and specialist visits. MRIs. Restricting diets. Nothing seemed to work. Finally, one night, she told me to take her to the emergency room, and she told me in all seriousness she thought was going to die. A surgeon who knew what he was looking for correctly diagnosed a two-and-half centimeter carcinoid in her small intestine that had finally resulted in full blocka...

Space Butterfly: NASA/JPL-Caltech If you want to start at the beginning.... Rules for this referee-less, play by post game. Chapter 2 Gyuen Deimos  exits jump space a week later in the Gyuen system. Lero rubs his eyes. He’s been on the bridge for several hours. He drinks some coffee, hoping it renews his vigor. Let’s hope this goes better than Krenshawz.  He says, ”Okay, give me what we’ve got.” The Lieutenant Scraber says, “Sir, map of Gyuen on screen.” “Water world. Officially, 98.23% water. Class B down port. Planet size of 10,423-mile diameter. A dense, but high atmosphere.” Lero says, ”So water world. There’s no highlands for the pressure to be bearable?” Scraber says, “Aye, sir. The cities are sealed domes atop pylons driven deep into the planet’s ocean bottoms. Oceans are, however, fairly shallow, 1,500 meters. Population of 4,034,126 from last census data. That’s four years ago. Government is oligarchy. Looks like five families dominate. Th...