austenandrews
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Re: The myth of the starship It's surprising that the best term a SF writer invented was "system." Sounds like the first-pass choice of a tech committee. His point stands, though. If/when we send intelligent craft to other star systems, it's not going to look anything like our beloved SF tropes.
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Sky Scorcher 1 megaton air-to-air missile (1956)
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Re: Sky Scorcher 1 megaton air-to-air missile (1956) When the alternative is armageddon, all options are on the table. -
Re: Zeppelins Heh, those are cool.
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Re: Cut 'em Off at the Horsehead Nebula! Incidentally, for those who don't know, the term "horse opera" was a pejorative for cheesy, formulaic westerns. The term "space opera" was coined as an analogous term for cheesy, formulaic science fiction.
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Re: Giant Ant Lair Just saw this. Wow, that's extremely cool.
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Re: "Neat" Pictures Wow, that was exceptionally bad.
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Dark Red Spot Found on Kuiper Belt Object Haumae
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Re: Dark Red Spot Found on Kuiper Belt Object Haumae ...pimento? -
Re: Is "ether" real? As I recall, the equations underlying the "waveness without medium" of light have long been understood. As in first semester EM physics. I'm surprised at JP.
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Re: "Neat" Pictures That is monumentally cool.
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Re: "Neat" Pictures I've got a coworker who did IT at NASA. Gave an interesting running commentary during the launch.
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Re: Using Human “Wetware” to Control Robots Huh, I thought that was all emulation. I didn't realize they could make actual neurons behave that way. Not that I know much about it, obviously.
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Re: Using Human “Wetware” to Control Robots If I understand this, the rat-neuron robot is basically just a twitch mechanism, right? A signal comes in from the sensor to the neurons, which generate an output signal that's read by the robot as a "change direction" command. So the idea is to see if emergent behavior develops from larger groups of neurons?
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Re: 32 New Exoplanets Found I love the term "Super-Earth."
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Re: Actual "Hyperdrive" research using the LHC Wow, how is this not a common SF trope? Interesting.
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Re: Zeppelins I would so pay to do that. They should put it someplace more interesting, though.
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Re: Actual "Hyperdrive" research using the LHC I don't follow. Are they saying if you fire a high-energy beam, it generates a sort of gravity field?
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Re: The Mystery of the Runaway Star "Why do you hate me you're going to regret it you'll never see me agaaaaaaaain!"
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Free-flying cyborg insects steered from a distance
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Re: Modern Military Zeppelins If there's zeppelins, it has to be an alternate universe. Therefore we must be the alternate universe now. We probably diverged when this project was greenlit.
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Re: The Galaxy With Two Supermassive Black Holes: Will They Trigger One of the Most V Oh sure, if you want to split hairs.
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Re: The Galaxy With Two Supermassive Black Holes: Will They Trigger One of the Most V Doesn't everything bend spacetime itself?
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Re: A Thread for Random Videos
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Re: Mars-Earth Microbe Shuttle -Did One Exist? During the whole "Martian microbe" frenzy, I could swear I read an article estimating the tonnage of Earth rocks that reached Mars. It wasn't an insignificant number, IIRC.
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Re: "Neat" Pictures http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/6187644/Storm-Chaser-a-photographers-journey-into-hurricanes-tornadoes-and-supercell-thunderstorms.html?image=7 There's a possibility it may be one of these.
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Re: How Big Can Starship Warden Really Be?