#core fire

Not everything you find on an old shelf is complete. Some of it is half-finished. Some of it is scribbled in the margins. And some of it—maybe the most interesting part—is what almost happened. Tucked in between the CoRE FIRE rules Tim sent me back in 1992, I found a few pages of my own handwriting. Notes. Rough, uneven, clearly written in the middle of a burst of inspiration. The kind you jot…

There’s a certain kind of magic that happens when you pull an old binder or box off the shelf. It’s something half-forgotten, half-remembered, and entirely alive once more. I thought I had lost this during a move. I stumbled across a set of rules for a game called “CoRE FIRE”. They were mailed to me in 1992 by an old friend: Tim Carter. Tim had been working on something special for years. Not…

Blog: Solar Storms Threaten Global Nuclear Nightmare

An eruption on April 16, 2012 was captured here by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. The near-miss event on 23 July 2012 was even more powerful than this. Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA

Our planet came within a whisker of disaster two years ago.

On 23 July 2012, an eruption exploded on the face of the sun blasting a stream of material into space that narrowly missed our planet. Had this event…