None of the Star Wars books come within a hundred parsecs of the Timothy Zahn post trilogy.
He manages to pull off what Lucas can't: Tell a story in the Star Wars universe that keeps the pace of the movies, but at the same time leaves out the "Yippees!" and fart jokes.
Having read the screenplay and book, you can hardly blame Salvatore for the result. He wasn't give alot of material to work with.
Wouldn't advanced civilizations be looking for a site like this?
Nuclear power would surely be known to any culture advanced enough to get to the vault.
If our civilization collapses, every nuclear power plant in the world will be a disaster site and many areas uninhabitable.
The terrestrial or extraterrestrial culture would have learned their lesson by the time they explore the storage area. I mean c'mon, which is a more inviting archaeological site, the baren nevada desert, or the cities around the country, many of which have nuclear power plants nearby.
An evolving terrestrial culture would learn the signs of radiation sickness due to decaying missiles, subs, power plants, etc. And thus stay away.
An extraterrestrial culture would take one look at the planet and go "Hmm, old school nuclear fission. Where did they store the waste?" (scan) "Silly humans!"
I write software for the government that users a spec called milstrip.
Altough we don't print out cards, transactions between government/military systems still use 80 character long messages (or milstrip).
The milstrip spec is actually quite useful, and complex.
Although they are based on a legacy format, 80 character based systems have had an incredible amount of time to mature.
Replacing them all with more recent fromats (ie XML) would really give no return on investment.
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None of the Star Wars books come within a hundred parsecs of the Timothy Zahn post trilogy.
He manages to pull off what Lucas can't:
Tell a story in the Star Wars universe that keeps the pace of the movies, but at the same time leaves out the "Yippees!" and fart jokes.
Having read the screenplay and book, you can hardly blame Salvatore for the result.
He wasn't give alot of material to work with.
Wouldn't advanced civilizations be looking for a site like this?
Nuclear power would surely be known to any culture advanced enough to get to the vault.
If our civilization collapses, every nuclear power plant in the world will be a disaster site and many areas uninhabitable.
The terrestrial or extraterrestrial culture would have learned their lesson by the time they explore the storage area.
I mean c'mon, which is a more inviting archaeological site, the baren nevada desert, or the cities around the country, many of which have nuclear power plants nearby.
An evolving terrestrial culture would learn the signs of radiation sickness due to decaying missiles, subs, power plants, etc. And thus stay away.
An extraterrestrial culture would take one look at the planet and go "Hmm, old school nuclear fission. Where did they store the waste?" (scan) "Silly humans!"
Good email clients will automatically check the signature for you and display the identity verification.
So, yes, in a way I check them all the time.
CPUs were made of black market levi jeans.
Case cooling was achieved through imported Coke mixed with domestic Vodka.
Gorky Park CDs were all a CD ROM drive could play.
Yakov Smirnov was a coding god.
At least thats how I picture it.....
Although I'm an avid star wars fan, I've given up hope lucasarts will ever make a decent game based on the movies.
I write software for the government that users a spec called milstrip.
Altough we don't print out cards, transactions between government/military systems still use 80 character long messages (or milstrip).
The milstrip spec is actually quite useful, and complex.
Although they are based on a legacy format, 80 character based systems have had an incredible amount of time to mature.
Replacing them all with more recent fromats (ie XML) would really give no return on investment.
Although I think this is cute but useless, it brings up an interesting question.
What are the possibilities for a useable interface for the blind to first person real time games on the net?
Maybe a big brail grid (3x3) with something like this being rendered? Coming up with character standards for color/depth?