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Andy Kober

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Andy’s Astronomy: Planets of “Battlestar Galactica”
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April 30, 2026

In 1979, just three years after “Space 1999” was cancelled, the original “Battlestar Galactica” premiered. This was a very high-budget production that began with a premier movie and phased into a television series. The story had humans spread across 12 “colonies” located in the far reaches of space with those planets drawing their names from the 12 constellations visible from Earth. Under the guise of peace talks to end a long war, the colonies are attacked by artificial intelligent humanoid robots with the goal of exterminating the human species. Also attacked are the colonies’ 12 battlestars, capital warships, also unprepared for the sneak attack. Perceived similarity to the attack on Pearl Harbor is understandable.

This Week in American History: 1568 – French Forces Attack Spanish Fort San Mateo
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April 30, 2026

• May 3. On this day in 1568, America is not yet a country when French soldiers attack the Spanish fort, San Mateo, located along the banks of the St. Johns River in Florida. Spanish soldiers surviving the battle are slaughtered. This bloodthirsty action was because three years earlier Spanish soldiers out of St. Augustine had attacked the French Fort Carolina located in nearly the same spot.

Some Never Survive Being Young
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April 30, 2026

Twenty-two year old Kayley Boda is dying. Like too many young people, Boda started vaping at a young age, she was 15 and had experimented with smoking. Vaping is supposed to be a safe alternative to smoking. The peer pressure and slick advertising campaigns convince young people that it is the trendy, sophisticated thing to do. Generations ago, the same peer pressure and slick advertising convinced young people that smoking was harmless. Every guy wanted to be the Marlboro Man on his horse, young women flocked to Virginia Slims because “you’ve come a long way baby”, and many looked for those cigarettes that were “a silly millimeter longer”. The results were mouth, throat, lung and other cancers that killed too many while they were still young. So it is with Boda and she is paying a terrible price.