Never mind the flying kit. It's a lot worse on the ground. Keeping the ancient test equipment going to test the stuff that flys is a bigger logistical problem.
NASA went on a major scavenging hunt in the mid '90s for particular 286 processors, and other small-source components. I was contracting to an Intel supplier at the time, everyone heard about it, and was widely covered in usenet news.
Didn't someone in Wired say Ebay took up the slack for the search for this stuff?
Absolutely disagree. Since I read the paper, off the top of my head could think of a bunch of changes to Star Trek, Honor Harrington, 1632, and others, that still gives us the same observed science plot devices in these universes.
If information is a property, and changing the property changes observed "gravity", this make a great shortcut to describing these same effects in SF.
Information storage in black holes has been used in SF for about 15 years now. Adding the rest of the universe is just more writing territory
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space documentation, tho' was typeset on V6, V7 and later Unices
Never mind the flying kit. It's a lot worse on the ground. Keeping the ancient test equipment going to test the stuff that flys is a bigger logistical problem.
NASA went on a major scavenging hunt in the mid '90s for particular 286 processors, and other small-source components. I was contracting to an Intel supplier at the time, everyone heard about it, and was widely covered in usenet news.
Didn't someone in Wired say Ebay took up the slack for the search for this stuff?
no, no, listen to a Time Lord instead: reverse the polarity of the neutron flow
Absolutely disagree. Since I read the paper, off the top of my head could think of a bunch of changes to Star Trek, Honor Harrington, 1632, and others, that still gives us the same observed science plot devices in these universes.
If information is a property, and changing the property changes observed "gravity", this make a great shortcut to describing these same effects in SF.
Information storage in black holes has been used in SF for about 15 years now. Adding the rest of the universe is just more writing territory
Sorry, your asking Max to make up his mind . . .?