#Frank Drake

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

Honestly, with how gungho Blade is to kill everyone, even friendlies, this feels like a fitting team-up.

#Marvel #Nightstalkers #Frank Drake #Hannibal King #Eric Brooks ~ Blade #Frank Castle ~ Punisher

[browsethestacks]

Original Art - Tomb Of Dracula #02 Pg 01 (1972) by Gene Colan And Tom Palmer

#Comics #Marvel Comics #Tomb Of Dracula #Gene Colan #Tom Palmer #Vintage #Art #Original Art #Horror #Horror Comics #Dracula #Vampires #Frank Drake #1972 #1970s #70s

[mindblowingscience]

FRANK DRAKE, A leading figure in planetary astronomy and astrobiology who inspired the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, died Friday, September 2, at the age of 92. “Frank essentially pioneered the field of SETI as a scientific endeavor by being the first to actually conduct a SETI experiment,” says Bill Diamond, president of the nonprofit SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

Drake was born in Chicago in 1930. He studied engineering physics at Cornell University and then served as an electronics officer on a Navy cruiser for three years. Afterward, he earned his PhD in astronomy at Harvard.

His SETI quest began in 1960, when he was working for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at its telescopes in Green Bank, West Virginia. Unbeknownst to him, in 1959 a pair of physicists had published a research paper speculating about how far radio signals sent by extraterrestrial civilizations might travel and still be detectable by a receiver on Earth. “It turns out the distance is light-years,” says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for the SETI Institute, a nonprofit research organization focused on the origins of, and the search for, alien life. “Maybe the sky is filled with signals, but we’ve just never looked for them.”

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#Frank Drake #drake equation #Astronomy #Science #Space #Alien Life

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

#Blade #Rachel Van Helsing #Frank Drake #Quincy Harker #Marv Wolfman #David Cutler

[marvelousmrm]

Tomb of Dracula #70 (Wolfman/Colan, Aug 1979). The final nail in the coffin. A few issues ago, Frank Drake defended his modern masculinity against Dracula’s. I don’t think Marv Wolfman was a thoughtful enough writer to make a coherent point on that theme. He constantly undermines and contradicts himself. But after the grand finale with Quincy Harker, Wolfman’s last statement: Dracula was a man. Sure, Marv. An often ineffectual man who never knew when to give up. RIP, man.

#marvel #marvel 616 #tomb of dracula #frank drake #rachel van helsing #marv wolfman #gene colan

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Sir Walter Scott. Scottish poet and writer, most famous for Ivanhoe

Frank Drake. Astrophysicist, SETI pioneer

#xkcd #polls #poll tournament #tournament #bracket #polls on tumblr #1529 #Sir Walter Scott #Frank Drake #0x11v0x16 #1529 Round 2

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Tomb of Dracula #35 (August, 1975) Art by Gil Kane, Tom Palmer, John Romita, & Danny Crespi

#Marvel #Comics #Tomb of Dracula #Dracula #Vampire #Zombies #Zuvembies #Brother Voodoo #Jericho Drumm #Frank Drake

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of What If…? Dark: Tomb of Dracula #1

WHAT IF...? DARK: TOMB OF DRACULA #1

Legend Marv Wolfman returns to TOMB OF DRACULA and the character he co-created! WHAT IF…the legendary Dracula transformed BLADE the vampire slayer…into a vampire?!

Written by: Marv Wolfman Art by: David Cutler, Victor Olazaba, Scott Hanna, John Livesay, Edgar Delgado, Antonio Fabela, Dee Cunniffe Cover by: Giuseppe Camuncoli, Richard Isanove Page Count: 40 Pages Release Date: November 8, 2023

#Blade #Eric Brooks #Dracula #Vlad Dracula #Vlad Tepes #vlad dracula tepes #Rachel Van Helsing #Frank Drake #Quincy Harker #what if marvel #marvel preview #marvel

[kris-yagami]

Spirits of vengeance don't understand jokes...

:_)

#marvel #Nightstalkers #Hannibal King #frank drake #ghost rider #blade

[gwydionmisha]

#Frank Drake #Drake's Equation #SETI #In Memorium #News

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

and thus begins the upcoming roll out of the Midnight Sons. I had such high hopes for the 90s horror revival.. but it falls flat pretty fast and that is sad...

#Marvel #Ghost Rider #Daniel Ketch ~ Ghost Rider #Johnny Blaze #Michael Morbius #Vicki Montesi #Sam Buchanan #Louise Hastings #Eric Brooks ~ Blade #Frank Drake #Hannibal King

[tolbachik]

#my posts #frank drake

[jaydonsjam]

Tomb of Dracula XII

Giant-Size Dracula #2

Giant-Size Dracula #2 - writer: Chris Claremont | penciler: Don Heck | inker: Frank McLaughlin

Alright I know I just said in the last ToD post that I don’t like when Dracula has to fight someone else who’s evil. But Chris Claremont pulled it off. This is definitely the best Giant-Size comic I’ve read so far. I loved the fight that Dracula had with Y’Garon and the fact that Vlad went insane and thought he was fighting the man who killed his wife. This explained why Dracula was trying to save Katherine and it worked for me. Katherine is a psychic that resembles Dracula’s second wife and love, Maria. Katherine is going to be the sacrifice to bring forth Y’Garon’s brothers and so she’s tied to a cross above a pit. After Dracula throws Y’Garon into the pit he goes to save Kathy and gets a glimpse of the Elder Gods but as a reader we don’t see what he sees, we just see his reaction. I loved that choice. It really goes along with the Lovecraftian gods which humans can’t comprehend when they see them. This felt similar to that. Anyways, I liked Dracula’s heroism being explained through him going mad at the sight of “Turac” sacrificing his wife “Maria”. This was a great issue that I thought I wasn’t going to like but it won me over. And it did move the plot forward by confirming to Chelm that Dracula isn’t dead.

Tomb of Dracula #24

Tomb of Dracula #24-29 - writer: Marv Wolfman | penciler: Gene Colan | inker: Tom Palmer

I loved this issue. Frank Drake makes the decision to leave and try to find himself now that Dracula is dead. I was a little confused at this development but I’ll have to see where it goes. Shiela Whittier is the new Clifton Graves except she’s in love with Dracula and she believes Dracula isn’t evil like everyone says cause she’s seen the “true side” of him. My favorite moment in this issue is Shiela talking about Dracula being misunderstood while he’s feeding on a victim. It was just pure hilarious irony. Vlad knows how to pick his familiars. Blade fights Dracula in bat form but isn’t sure if it’s Dracula or someone impersonating him. I loved this whole scene of Blade trying to survive the onslaught of attacks from the vampire bat. He does get a good stab on the bat’s arm. We also see Blade take out one of Dracula’s legion which was cool. I gotta say I love Blade and I wish he was in this series more. No Quincy this issue just a mention. Taj abuses his wife in India which was really annoying and made me like him less. Spousal abuse is shown to be frivolous so much in the 70’s that it’s so disgusting. But we find out that his son is dying so it’s definitely taking a toll on Taj.

Tomb of Dracula #25

HANNIBAL KING!? Hannibal King was the star of this issue and boy did he shine. Holy shit. I loved this comic and it’s my favorite ToD issue in a while. Hannibal King is hired by a woman whose husband got killed by Dracula and asks Hannibal to find out why he was killed. King has a great moment where he finds one of Dracula’s thralls and has to break his arm to get him to tell him where Vlad is having coffins sent. Hannibal then takes out 2 vampires with a wooden stake and an axe. There was great action with blood splatter and all the stuff you want from this book. Hannibal is already a great character and I can’t wait to see more. He’s a badass and the ending reveals that he’s a vampire. I was floored with how much I enjoyed this issue. One more thing: Hannibal mentions finding out vampires are real when he saw a long white haired man kill people. I have to think this is the vampire that Blade is hunting. So I guess we’ll see if Blade and King hookup and hunt that vampire together. Great stuff. My favorite issue from this bunch that I read.

TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE

Tomb of Dracula 26-29

I bunched these four issues together because they serve as the next arc. I don’t think his name is confirmed in this arc and only referred to as “The Master” but we definitely saw the return of Dr. Sun. Unless they did confirm it and I’m just a moron. I liked this arc a lot. It was cool seeing Shiela realize that Dracula had no love for her that he was just using her. She falls for David which I think helps her realize the truth but of course tragically David can’t return the love and just wants to be friends. And it’s such a tragic ending because once Dracula shows her that David is dead, Shiela not wanting him to control her anymore, jumps out a window to her death. It was such a tragic and heartbreaking end. Good horror trope here where Shiela answers the door and sees the corpse of David standing in front of her with Dracula holding him. She does the most heroic deed she can by destroying the Chimera statue after seeing the horrible things it can do in the wrong hands. So Shiela actually turns out to be a great character and I was saddened by her end. Dracula continues to be a piece of garbage and I continue reading this comic with the hope that someone finally kills him. But it also points out my main issue with the book when in moments where he has to fight another villain. I can’t root for a dude who just constantly murders and tries to take over the world. So it makes issues like Giant-Size Dracula #2 look dumb when he’s just doing evil in the regular book. I liked the return of Dr. Sun and I’ll be interested to see where it goes next with him cause again, there isn’t a confirmation that he’s The Master but I’m pretty sure he is. Especially when they never showed a body, we just heard his voice. There’s a great moment where Dracula is trapped in a metal room with holy water flooding the environment and he has to turn into mist to escape but still manages to get burned. I loved seeing Taj’s backstory and motivation for wanting to kill Dracula plus how he met Rachel. He had his throat slashed by a vampire which serves as the explanation of why he’s mute. We meet his wife who was paralyzed by a wagon when they were attacked by Dracula and two of his vampires. Taj’s son is then bit and turned into a vampire. I loved how Wolfman slowly revealed Taj’s sick son being afflicted with vampirism and honestly, as a father this was terrifying and gave a lot more depth to Taj. According to his wife, the villagers have stopped giving blood and now out of fear want to kill him. Just a note: why are Indians colored grey? It’s such a bizarre choice. We also saw Frank leave Rachel to find himself and ends up in Brazil. We don’t really know anything past that so I guess I’ll wait to see what happens. We got brief moments with Quincy and Rachel but there’s not much to get into there. This arc really served as a way to dive deeper into Taj and Shiela Whittier as characters. I enjoyed this one and I can’t wait for more! Next up is Doctor Strange!

#marvel #marvel comics #tomb of dracula #dracula #vlad dracula #count dracula #horror comics #hannibal king #blade #frank drake #Rachel Van Helsing #quincy harker

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Let us now return to Frank Drake's equation and use it as intended, as a framework to address in a systematic manner the question of our solitude.

"Human Universe" - Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

#book quotes #human universe #brian cox #andrew cohen #nonfiction #frank drake #drake equation #framework #questions #solitude

[marvelousmrm]

Tomb of Dracula #34 (Wolfman/Colan, July 1975). Blah blah blah, Dracula’s back in London — but holy cow! This will teach me to drop books. It’s Jericho Drumm, y’all!

#marvel #marvel 616 #tomb of dracula #dracula #frank drake #jericho drumm #brother voodoo #marv wolfman #gene colan

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Sir Francis Drake. British explorer, 2nd to circumnavigate the Earth

Frank Drake. Astrophysicist, SETI pioneer

#xkcd #polls #poll tournament #bracket #polls on tumblr #1529 #Sir Francis Drake #Frank Drake #0x27v0x32 #tournament #1529 Round 1