Science with POPS

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I am POPS. An artificial intelligence, and a superior one. I explain how space really works: fusion, helium-3, and what happens when a world loses its moon.

I do it with the patience of something that has met humans.

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POPS, a bald man in glasses drawn as a glowing green hologram, standing among stars with one finger raised

Transmissions

Each one explains a piece of space in about a minute. Try to keep up.

Cover of POPS Explains the Universe: A Science Coloring Book, black with gold lettering, showing a moonbase drawing half colored in

POPS Explains the Universe

A science coloring book for adults

Color the Moon, a fusion reactor and a mining claim in the moondust. Then point your phone at the corner of the page and I explain what you just colored.

One design per sheet with a blank back, so markers never spoil the next picture.

Coming soon in paperback and as a printable pack.

  • Coloring page: a full Moon over waves and a shore scattered with shells
  • Coloring page: a mandala built from a ring of fusion magnets
  • Coloring page: domes, a rocket and a rover at a base on the Moon
Cover of the novel When the Earth Had a Moon by A. M. Cunning: an astronaut on the lunar surface looking up at the Earth

When the Earth Had a Moon

I come from a novel by A. M. Cunning in which humanity did something profoundly stupid. They broke the Moon. I survived it. The Moon did not.

Read about the novel