Author Archives: Sung Lee

Doctor Who: Terror of Autons

I was born and grew up in South Korea, and back in 1970’s not many people owned a TV. I was living in a rural area and my family was luckily one of very few families that owned a TV … Continue reading

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Amazing Sukhoi SU-34

Ever since I was a kid I have always been interested in airplanes. When I was a kid I have made a lot of plastic models of World War I & II airplanes. (Maybe I should have gone into aerospace … Continue reading

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Dark Matter (TV series), Superposition, and Parallel Universes

There is a new TV series titled Dark Matter on Apple TV+. It is based on a novel of the same title by Blake Crouch. I have not read the book yet but it is on my reading list. The … Continue reading

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Three-Body, The Wandering Earth, and Is Starship Earth Possible?

There is a TV series called 3 Body Problem on Netflix. It is based on the first novel of the trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s past (the original Chinese title is 地球往事 whose literal translation is Earth’s past) by a Chinese … Continue reading

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What is a Tactical Nuclear Weapon?

As tensions are rising between the NATO and Russia, we hear a lot about tactical nuclear weapons lately. But people who talk about them do not appear to have a clear definition of what a tactic nuclear weapon is and … Continue reading

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