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@nyrath@spacey.space

Star map and Atomic Rocket geek. The hard-science SF writer's tech support. The website is at
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

Refugee from the decline and fall of Google Plus.

In my long and misspent youth I did the artwork for various TTWG such as Ogre, WarpWar, GEV and such.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

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Scifi Mastodon, please come to my aid!

I am trying to compile a list of vintage scifi stories that feature Andean Indians able to breath the rarefied atmosphere of the planet Mars.

This is of course impossible, but was a popular motif in scifi back around the 1950s. I seem to remember it appearing in an Arthur C. Clarke science fact book, then appearing in several stories by other authors. But I can't remember the titles or authors.

I think one was Crucifixus Etiam, by Walter Miller Jr.

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Tabletop gaming at the 20th World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, 1962. Photo by Jay Kay Klein.

I don't recognize that game! Can anyone identify it?

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I somehow missed this commercial when it came out in 1987. WTAF?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7uLuNobnvi4&feature=youtu.be

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From a science fiction book written in 2014…
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112298676107501073

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@SteveBellovin @tknarr

Well, the fact that the Berserkers killed their creators as well as the enemy shows that they were out-of-control. Unless the creators deliberately wanted to die.

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A woman adopted a new cat. She says she now has a strange urge to watch the classic Star Trek episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

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Young physicist ‘squares the numbers’ on time travel

Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible, according to the mathematical modelling of a prodigious University of Queensland undergraduate student

https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2020/09/young-physicist-squares-numbers%E2%80%99-time-travel

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I'm thinking of writing this retro-futuristic techno thriller where the US manages to put people on the using only 1960s technology, former Nazi rocket scientists etc.

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@cstross @mrundkvist

I read another report that some poorly educated person remarked about the movie Apollo 13: "If this had happened in reality, they would have all died..."

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A 20th century society on a ringworld

https://therestlesstechnophile.com/2023/08/06/a-20th-century-society-on-a-ringworld/

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Cute DIY carbon dioxide monitor

https://github.com/mike-rankin/ESP32-S3_CO2_Monitor

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Article about extraterrestrial settlement
By @ZachWeinersmith

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/21/space-isnt-the-final-frontier/

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Mastodon, please help me.
I am trying to locate a music video I saw about a year ago, and foolishly neglected to write down the name.

It was a lilting song with vocals, featuring a smiling but silent lady dancing in the back yard of a mansion, while doing the lyrics in sign language. At the end she is standing inside an elegantly sculpted circular opening in a large brick wall.

Does this sound familiar?

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Notes on the dreaded nanotechnology "grey goo" scenario.
TL;DR it is not much of a threat due to limits of chemistry and thermodynamics

https://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/Ecophagy.htm

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EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor)

A versatile, snake-like robot designed for exploration of previously inaccessible terrain

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/robotics-at-jpl/eels

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This real-life boat looks like a painting by John Berkey

https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-largest-sportsfishing-boat-launched-superyacht-1866860

image/jpeg

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Dr. Harris Mayer died last year at age 102. Among other things he worked on The Manhattan Project and on Project Orion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Mayer

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https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/03/01/nasa-cancels-osam-satellite-refuel-project/8751709328434/

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Frances Scott Key bridge collapse

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Ukrainian watchmaker fixes Newfoundland clock tower that hasn't told time in decades

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ukrainian-watchmaker-fixes-newfoundland-clock-tower-that-hasn-t-told-time-in-decades-1.6699705

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https://mythcreants.com/blog/six-problems-with-realistic-space-battles/

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Constellations Are Younger Than Continents

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YMakfmwZsoLdXAZhb/constellations-are-younger-than-continents

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Tetrahedral spacecraft attitude jet configuration. Invented by Hollister David

https://web.archive.org/web/20120225145607/https://clowder.net/hop/tetships/tetships.html

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A brilliant flash of blue light briefly outshined its host galaxy before fading away — but then it exploded again, and again.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-find-a-brilliant-explosion-that-just-keeps-on-exploding/

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https://astrobiology.com/2023/09/application-of-the-thermodynamics-of-radiation-to-dyson-spheres-as-work-extractors-and-computational-engines-and-their-observational-consequences.html

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