Early science fiction as represented in the pulps was unquestionably crude from a literary standpoint, which is the brush the whole genre is still being painted with - which makes for a nice SF trope in of itself.
It's very amusing to me that this Forever War is still being waged; didn't the New Wave and fellow travelers establish back in the 1960s that SF could be writing full of complexity, involved plots, rich characters, all that? And then you had writers like Greg Egan whose work exists on almost another plane from all these drab concerns, it's so alien, in various senses of the word.
Bit more exotic: there was the proposal to use magnesium as a storage medium for hydrogen. Also some process for using nanoparticle shavings of boron or the like. Dumping rusty nails into your tank would be that much more cool, of course.
A favorite SF story of mine is Walter Jon Williams's "Foreign Devils," which was part of an anthology of stories taking place in the setting of HG Wells's War of the Worlds, but taking place in other parts of the world. WJW's contribution depicted the reaction of China's royalty to the tripods etc. Not time travel per se but definitely cast the Chinese court in a less than favorable light.
That's as close as I can get to a story which might draw ire from the PRC; any others? According to TFA they're down on stories which “casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.” All of those at once sounds quite entertaining, actually.
I wonder if cell phones and texting aren't at least leading to kids being more on the go now, and thus getting a bit more exercise than their predecessors, who were pretty much chained to desktop computers for their online fix.
geologic dike - Google Image Search. Some of these aren't much larger than a typical deep man made bore - but they contracted massively after cooling, as I understand these things.
This whole endeavor will likely remain on the drawing board, too; the expected cost is ca. $1 billion, largely from Japanese sources - a double whammy given the state of that country at the moment. It's baffling to me that anyone is even considering this - after an early 90s earthquake in western Oregon two scientific boreholes were drilled in the area, to the staggering depth of 750m. Fossil fuel exploratory wells start at about 3.5k feet, and data from those have been crucial to our understanding of conditions in the subsurface; but far as I know dedicated deep scientific wells are comparatively rare. Maybe the Japanese are just more gung ho for this knowledge than the US? Or we've punched so many holes in the ground it's considered unnecessary.
Criminy, I can't remember any movie demonizing nuclear power like that in the Cold War era. By this I don't mean the neverending stream of flicks painting various pictures of WWIII and its aftermath. "O Holy Bomb" etc. Even those guys on the Ape Planet were mutated from hanging around a warhead, not a corroded reactor or a waste dump.
"You'll thank God it's only a motion picture." How often do we find ourselves saying that.
Cuba's consumption is about 200 kb/d, IIRC. The article mentions a USGS estimate of ca. 4 billion barrels reserves, which could translate into them becoming a net exporter if things panned out well enough. The experiences of other OPEC nations and also major producers like Mexico don't necessarily mean this will translate into greater per capita wealth or well-being, of course. Those USGS estimates are often a bit askew of reality, also. But the Gulf of Mexico is a pretty remarkable basin so who knows. Mexico are attempting to move into the deepwater GOM too, and have relaxed regulations on outside participation in their hydrocarbon industries which were in place since 1938; perhaps Cuba will follow suit here.
Sure, 120 million barrels proved reserves at the moment and 51k barrels/day production; estimates of their offshore resources are much higher. CNN: How oil could bring Cuba and the U.S. back together - May. 25, 2010. That might provide a convenient casus belli, or lead to greater cooperation. Or maybe things will just waffle along the way they have for the last 50 years.
The continent of Atlantis was an island Which lay before the great flood In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean. So great an area of land, That from her western shores Those beautiful sailors journeyed To the South and the North Americas with ease, In their ships with painted sails. To the East Africa was a neighbour, Across a short strait of sea miles.
In the story on George Lucas posted here recently Connie Willis's novella "Remake" was recommended to me, and it's a solid read - full of implausible casting mashups like the above, assuming we're talking about, what, slamming together Jurassic Park raptors with Kenau from Speed on the set of, I'm guessing, something from a Die Hard? Connie mostly pictures a world still fixated on Hollywood's Golden Age - everywhere you turn there's a duplicate of Marilyn Monroe, and the screens are full of Astaire and Rogers.
That's odd - both of your links simply bring me back to this article. Yet they look bona fide. Maybe someone has edited out all evidence of their previous existence? Happens with Chrome and FF.
Thought you meant Christopher Reeves for a sec there. "Casting by Herbert West." Although Keanu isn't registering much higher on the detectable pulse scale. "Dude...I will, like, totally defy logic in re: marketability and screen presence."
In practice, well, rent the movie Das Boot, and have a good look. That's likely how you'd live on an interstellar trip.
"The boat will need more than a can of vaseline!"
"You filthy boy! You've got crabs! A whole army of them!"
I remember an SF story - maybe in one of Brian Aldiss's Galactic Empires anthologies from the 70's - where a derelict spaceship is found. It seemed wholly alien to the humans inspecting it, owing initially to its shape, devoid of any concession to aerodynamics - instead of being sleek it was just a huge collection of cubes connected by tubes. Perhaps this story inspired the design of the Borg ships? Tried to find some info on that but about all that came up was a post on Streamlined Starships, which has some info on Star Trek/Wars designs - apparently Roddenberry decreed that the Enterprise must "look powerful," thus the nacelles splayed back.
Perhaps in the Physics of Star Trek this is given more consideration. But we're still dealing with theoretical constructs for moving FTL; assuming space travel forever remains sublight why not employ a cube as a design? It would be that much simpler to construct, after all, and there would be no putative need to deal with drag at FTL. You could also spin a series of cubes connected to a central shaft for artificial gravity.
With any of these designs it seems a simple matter to maximize volume for living quarters. I doubt the stress on the frame from acceleration would be much of a factor; you could have a largely hollow cube with ample living space inside, huge empty "parks" for instance. Or a spinning O'Neill cylinder, ala Rama.
With short intersystem hops for mining etc your U Boat scenario would be more likely to take place. Indeed if we're stuck in the solar system that might be the rule. But space stations aren't committed to designs like the ISS, either. Marshall Savage's book The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps has a radical design for habitats in space that are simply big balloons, with walls largely composed of water, plus some transparent metal. The water blocks projectiles, radiation, etc. He postulates suits to deal with living permanently in zero G. Interesting book.
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And bear in mind as you do so that you stand in the shadow of the Kids in the Hall.
Early science fiction as represented in the pulps was unquestionably crude from a literary standpoint, which is the brush the whole genre is still being painted with - which makes for a nice SF trope in of itself.
It's very amusing to me that this Forever War is still being waged; didn't the New Wave and fellow travelers establish back in the 1960s that SF could be writing full of complexity, involved plots, rich characters, all that? And then you had writers like Greg Egan whose work exists on almost another plane from all these drab concerns, it's so alien, in various senses of the word.
Bit more exotic: there was the proposal to use magnesium as a storage medium for hydrogen. Also some process for using nanoparticle shavings of boron or the like. Dumping rusty nails into your tank would be that much more cool, of course.
RC Cola.
"Publici"? Weren't they one of the classes of Roman citizens?
A favorite SF story of mine is Walter Jon Williams's "Foreign Devils," which was part of an anthology of stories taking place in the setting of HG Wells's War of the Worlds, but taking place in other parts of the world. WJW's contribution depicted the reaction of China's royalty to the tripods etc. Not time travel per se but definitely cast the Chinese court in a less than favorable light.
That's as close as I can get to a story which might draw ire from the PRC; any others? According to TFA they're down on stories which “casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.” All of those at once sounds quite entertaining, actually.
Searching for 'hot Congresswoman' Google suggests Stephanie Herseth, whoever that is.
I wonder if cell phones and texting aren't at least leading to kids being more on the go now, and thus getting a bit more exercise than their predecessors, who were pretty much chained to desktop computers for their online fix.
geologic dike - Google Image Search. Some of these aren't much larger than a typical deep man made bore - but they contracted massively after cooling, as I understand these things.
This whole endeavor will likely remain on the drawing board, too; the expected cost is ca. $1 billion, largely from Japanese sources - a double whammy given the state of that country at the moment. It's baffling to me that anyone is even considering this - after an early 90s earthquake in western Oregon two scientific boreholes were drilled in the area, to the staggering depth of 750m. Fossil fuel exploratory wells start at about 3.5k feet, and data from those have been crucial to our understanding of conditions in the subsurface; but far as I know dedicated deep scientific wells are comparatively rare. Maybe the Japanese are just more gung ho for this knowledge than the US? Or we've punched so many holes in the ground it's considered unnecessary.
Criminy, I can't remember any movie demonizing nuclear power like that in the Cold War era. By this I don't mean the neverending stream of flicks painting various pictures of WWIII and its aftermath. "O Holy Bomb" etc. Even those guys on the Ape Planet were mutated from hanging around a warhead, not a corroded reactor or a waste dump.
"You'll thank God it's only a motion picture." How often do we find ourselves saying that.
Cuba's consumption is about 200 kb/d, IIRC. The article mentions a USGS estimate of ca. 4 billion barrels reserves, which could translate into them becoming a net exporter if things panned out well enough. The experiences of other OPEC nations and also major producers like Mexico don't necessarily mean this will translate into greater per capita wealth or well-being, of course. Those USGS estimates are often a bit askew of reality, also. But the Gulf of Mexico is a pretty remarkable basin so who knows. Mexico are attempting to move into the deepwater GOM too, and have relaxed regulations on outside participation in their hydrocarbon industries which were in place since 1938; perhaps Cuba will follow suit here.
So Cuba has oil?
Sure, 120 million barrels proved reserves at the moment and 51k barrels/day production; estimates of their offshore resources are much higher. CNN: How oil could bring Cuba and the U.S. back together - May. 25, 2010. That might provide a convenient casus belli, or lead to greater cooperation. Or maybe things will just waffle along the way they have for the last 50 years.
As it happens Unit 1 was scheduled to be shutdown and decommissioned in March, 2011.
The continent of Atlantis was an island
Which lay before the great flood
In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.
So great an area of land,
That from her western shores
Those beautiful sailors journeyed
To the South and the North Americas with ease,
In their ships with painted sails.
To the East Africa was a neighbour,
Across a short strait of sea miles.
+1 CSI:Miami
Joel McHale as David Caruso
Can you speed up the results? I use TTS at about 400 wpm, like an auctioneer on crank.
Uncyclopedia:How To Be Funny And Not Just Stupid - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia. Featuring various appeals of their own from founder "Jimbo Wales." I like the look of the suggestive one.
In the story on George Lucas posted here recently Connie Willis's novella "Remake" was recommended to me, and it's a solid read - full of implausible casting mashups like the above, assuming we're talking about, what, slamming together Jurassic Park raptors with Kenau from Speed on the set of, I'm guessing, something from a Die Hard? Connie mostly pictures a world still fixated on Hollywood's Golden Age - everywhere you turn there's a duplicate of Marilyn Monroe, and the screens are full of Astaire and Rogers.
Is there a marmot? Does Kevin Flynn do a J?
That's odd - both of your links simply bring me back to this article. Yet they look bona fide. Maybe someone has edited out all evidence of their previous existence? Happens with Chrome and FF.
Extra OT: did that meme or expression does has its roots in a Cole Porter song?
Thought you meant Christopher Reeves for a sec there. "Casting by Herbert West." Although Keanu isn't registering much higher on the detectable pulse scale. "Dude...I will, like, totally defy logic in re: marketability and screen presence."
Cleaning woman.
We had an entire TV channel or three of ISS feeds at one point. "In space no one can hear paint dry."
In practice, well, rent the movie Das Boot, and have a good look. That's likely how you'd live on an interstellar trip.
"The boat will need more than a can of vaseline!"
"You filthy boy! You've got crabs! A whole army of them!"
I remember an SF story - maybe in one of Brian Aldiss's Galactic Empires anthologies from the 70's - where a derelict spaceship is found. It seemed wholly alien to the humans inspecting it, owing initially to its shape, devoid of any concession to aerodynamics - instead of being sleek it was just a huge collection of cubes connected by tubes. Perhaps this story inspired the design of the Borg ships? Tried to find some info on that but about all that came up was a post on Streamlined Starships, which has some info on Star Trek/Wars designs - apparently Roddenberry decreed that the Enterprise must "look powerful," thus the nacelles splayed back.
Perhaps in the Physics of Star Trek this is given more consideration. But we're still dealing with theoretical constructs for moving FTL; assuming space travel forever remains sublight why not employ a cube as a design? It would be that much simpler to construct, after all, and there would be no putative need to deal with drag at FTL. You could also spin a series of cubes connected to a central shaft for artificial gravity.
With any of these designs it seems a simple matter to maximize volume for living quarters. I doubt the stress on the frame from acceleration would be much of a factor; you could have a largely hollow cube with ample living space inside, huge empty "parks" for instance. Or a spinning O'Neill cylinder, ala Rama.
With short intersystem hops for mining etc your U Boat scenario would be more likely to take place. Indeed if we're stuck in the solar system that might be the rule. But space stations aren't committed to designs like the ISS, either. Marshall Savage's book The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps has a radical design for habitats in space that are simply big balloons, with walls largely composed of water, plus some transparent metal. The water blocks projectiles, radiation, etc. He postulates suits to deal with living permanently in zero G. Interesting book.
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