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Fractal wrongness, in redistributable personal-size packets.

I lived on a SAC base 1971-74 (and into 1976, part-time after I started college), so I'm aware of the mindset, albeit 15-20 years later.

Fractal wrongness, in redistributable personal-size packets.

Another piece of context for the above: the US Air Force had become fully independent of the Army in 1947 (before then it was the US Army Air Force).  So a bunch of what you've described above is the result of a service that is newborn and definitely suffering from Jealous Kid Brother syndrome, trying to convey to the world -- and themselves -- that they are the ones that really matter.

If they can get there before the freebooting plunderers.  Good luck with that.

This is a recent real-science article suggesting that one could "look inside of", e.g., the Sun, by watching what happens to gravitational waves when the Sun moves in front of a source of those, like a compact neutron star binary.  The emphasis in the article is on the possibility of the technique and what you might learn from it.  It had never occurred to me before to think about gravity waves being "refracted" by astronomical objects but it could happen.  At the very least, it gives Star Hero GMs another kind of handwavium from which to make up detection systems.

That's what you need to make a cloaking device against detection via gravitational waves.

This is a recent real-science article suggesting that one could "look inside of", e.g., the Sun, by watching what happens to gravitational waves when the Sun moves in front of a source of those, like a compact neutron star binary.  The emphasis in the article is on the possibility of the technique and what you might learn from it.  It had never occurred to me before to think about gravity waves being "refracted" by astronomical objects but it could happen.  At the very least, it gives Star Hero GMs another kind of handwavium from which to make up detection systems.

This is a recent real-science article suggesting that one could "look inside of", e.g., the Sun, by watching what happens to gravitational waves when the Sun moves in front of a source of those, like a compact neutron star binary.  The emphasis in the article is on the possibility of the technique and what you might learn from it.  It had never occurred to me before to think about gravity waves being "refracted" by astronomical objects but it could happen.  At the very least, it gives Star Hero GMs another kind of handwavium from which to make up detection systems.

... and ideally get it recognized as a professional, non-academic enterprise, fully taxable as such, and with athletes as compensated and protected employees.

The news does that to all of us sometimes, MrWolf.   It might be better for your mental health to avoid this thread for a while, too. I doubt the political news is going to get much better any time soon.

Well, just imagine if that book's a product of Hermit's NaNoWriMo efforts!  That would rate a W00t!!

Well, just imagine if that book's a product of Hermit's NaNoWriMo efforts!  That would rate a W00t!!

Since the name on the cover is an obvious pseudonym, one wonders which Hero Boards member is the actual author.

Since the name on the cover is an obvious pseudonym, one wonders which Hero Boards member is the actual author.

Since the name on the cover is an obvious pseudonym, one wonders which Hero Boards member is the actual author.

Do we DARE ask him to actually explain that one?

I follow that advice.
 
Of course, a bunch of mine I shared with imposed upon my students, but such is the nature of concocting assignments.

Just gonna drop this here...