When I was a kid in the sixties we had the World Book Encyclopedia in my home. Each year a supplement would come out with lots of interesting articles. I think it was in 1966 there was a NASA article in the supplement which talked about hydroponics and how it would help the astronauts in their quest to get to Mars. In the frenzied atmosphere of The Space Race, the thinking then was that Man would step on Mars no later than 1985, according to the article!! I think we've forgotten to dream...
What a coincidence --- I'm reading "Europa Strike" by Ian Douglas right now. I just *know* there's something pinging under those methane seas, and we must meet our destinies and go find it!!!
Damn the torpedoes and full steam ahead! We must get the white whale!
Whoops, wrong book...
In the article:
"According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons."
Shouldn't it read: "are comprised of"?
I had one of these, with the twin floppy drives and the small screen. I remember running WordStar on the CP/M operating system, on the little 7" green on black screen (Hercules?) The Osborne was the size of a Mid-size suitcase, and quite heavy. I killed it eventually when I forgot to open the vent on the top of the thing. It was the precursor to the "lunchbox" portables, of which I purchased one in 1987 --- by "Magitronix". The instruction sheet said: "Children please not to eat computer."
Yeah, I don't want to have to make the effort to keep touching the goddamned screen --- I'll keep my trackball and my clean display, thank you very much. I also don't want to be bothered to have to give a bunch of voice commands to the computer --- it's *much* easier to click a button, and saves your voice for something else.
Touch screens and voice commands have their place, but it is not on the average desktop.
There was actually a fairly well-known science fiction novel from the last decade that had something about a whale being shot to the moon. Can't remember what the book was, though...
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What could possibly go wrong, Dr. Frankenstein?
Attention People of Tokyo!!!!!!!
Attention People of Tokyo!!!!!
I read the article, and I smell nothing but bullshit.
When I was a kid in the sixties we had the World Book Encyclopedia in my home. Each year a supplement would come out with lots of interesting articles. I think it was in 1966 there was a NASA article in the supplement which talked about hydroponics and how it would help the astronauts in their quest to get to Mars. In the frenzied atmosphere of The Space Race, the thinking then was that Man would step on Mars no later than 1985, according to the article!! I think we've forgotten to dream...
I...am....PROTEUS. All your base is mine.
What a coincidence --- I'm reading "Europa Strike" by Ian Douglas right now. I just *know* there's something pinging under those methane seas, and we must meet our destinies and go find it!!! Damn the torpedoes and full steam ahead! We must get the white whale! Whoops, wrong book...
Well, whatever the case, once such a computer is built, someone had better ask it whether or not entropy can be reversed.
The Last Question?
In the article: "According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons." Shouldn't it read: "are comprised of"?
I had one of these, with the twin floppy drives and the small screen. I remember running WordStar on the CP/M operating system, on the little 7" green on black screen (Hercules?) The Osborne was the size of a Mid-size suitcase, and quite heavy. I killed it eventually when I forgot to open the vent on the top of the thing. It was the precursor to the "lunchbox" portables, of which I purchased one in 1987 --- by "Magitronix". The instruction sheet said: "Children please not to eat computer."
Get your ass to Mars?
Yeah, I don't want to have to make the effort to keep touching the goddamned screen --- I'll keep my trackball and my clean display, thank you very much. I also don't want to be bothered to have to give a bunch of voice commands to the computer --- it's *much* easier to click a button, and saves your voice for something else. Touch screens and voice commands have their place, but it is not on the average desktop.
There was actually a fairly well-known science fiction novel from the last decade that had something about a whale being shot to the moon. Can't remember what the book was, though... Help?