from: Captain@Ciara.Fen
to: [All-call.Jobs]
Sent: 27/11/2023

Subj: [Situations Vacant] Crew required for deep atmospheric cruiser.

In liason with the Venus Terraforming roject, we are proud to annouce with we have recently completed purchase of the ROCS Hai-Pao, a former Balao-class submarine.

Yes. We intentionally bought an 80 year old ship. But her engines were in good conditions, and the hull has a strong mmemetic resonance for pressure tolerance. Early surveys have indicated a high memetic suitability for these operations.

SL Roin will be refit for spaceflight operations, with an expected launch-date in early May.

She is intended to be used to service surface installations on Venus as the terraforming project ramps up, as well as deep-atmospheric cargo operations and research work in the gas-giants. She will retain combat refit capability as per GJ reserve requirements. We have already been contracted to accompany next year's Soviet deep space expedition.

We require crew able and willing to work in cramped quarters, without external visual aids and under high pressure. Being a fan of Das Boot or Down Periscope will be considered an advantage. As will experience with diesel engines or diesel electric transmissions, echolocation and 3D Maneuvering.

Please respond to this email with your C.V., one character reference, and the answer to the following question

What does DBF normally stand for?

Is Mise Le Meas
Raymond Garrat
Captain. SL Macha.

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Since we have a fleet, does that technically make me an Admiral?
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The reckoning has been already on going
Which is why I'm skeptical about beach front property now. The catch-22 is that to maintain the infrastructure in cities like Miami, you need an increasing tax base. The best way to that is to build on the most expensive property. Which is on the beach. Far that you need an increasing tax base. So the cycle keeps on going until the city gets swallowed out by the ocean. Because with inertia built into the climate, even if we stop pumping Co2 into the atmosphere, you're looking at century of sea rise. Which comes to a conservative estimate of 6 feet. And with the GOP in collective denial about global warming, well expect it to come faster.
__________________
Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

2016 has been one hell of a year, people are dying left and right. Everything is insane. And then, as if to SPITE the body count, a show comes BACK from the dead.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Resurrection.
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead

It would take me too long to explain why this article about Trump, by Scott Alexander, is so important to you and to the country. Stop whatever you are doing and give it ten minutes. 
Seriously. Stop what you are doing. Give this ten minutes. It’s more important that almost anything you were going to do today.
Then save the link for later sharing. Show it to all of your friends who think Trump is a racist monster.
This ends it.
The only people who will think Trump is a racist going forward are people who haven’t read this article. If you find someone like that, send them the link. This piece is a brilliant service to the country. Breathtaking.
Here’s the short link for easy sharing: http://bit.ly/2f3iTxB

Titanfall Song- Man and Machine
Mind

From the circuits of man

Aspire

To break and to batter

Force

Experience

Hardwired

To shake and to shatter

 

Onto the frontiers,

Now deploy

Titans of industry

Build to deploy

 

Bring on the burn!

Bring on the burn!

Yeah!

Brace and Return!

 

Bring on the burn!

Bring on the burn!

Brace and Return!

 

The Synergy

Of Man and Machine

The Symmetry

And connections between

 

The power and the pace

To dominate your space

Get out and wipe your rivalries clean

Through man and machine

Man and machine

 

Speed and nimble stride

Burning blur of the acceleration

Brawn

And hardened hide

Brute force

Complete domination

 

And through the smoke

Of contention they roam

And now they bringing

The future back home

 

Bring on the burn!

Bring on the burn!

Yeah!

Brace and Return!

 

Bring on the burn!

Bring on the burn!

Brace and Return!

 

The symmetry

Of man and machine

The symmetry

And connections between

 

The symmetry

Of man and machine

The symmetry

And connections between

 

The power and the pace

To dominate your space

Get out and wipe your rivalries clean

Through man and machine

Man and machine

 

Bring on the burn!

Bring on the burn!

Yeah!

Brace and Return!

 

Man and machine

 

Bring on the burn!

Bring on the burn!

Yeah!

Brace and Return!

It'll be conditional what he gets based on which verse he's on. At a minimum, he might get a Robotech Cyclone, but more based on melee. May the deities help him though if he goes into a WH40k verse though. He might get a Titanicus.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Happy Thanksgiving!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-offici ... -published]And the drive appears to be the real deal.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Back in the dark mists of time, when Dark Horse publishing started releasing their translation of the Ah! Megami-Sama! manga, they excised a large number of chapters that they thought would not be interesting to American readers.They ended up releasing them in their "Super Manga Blast" house magazine. Later on they released new versions of the early volumes with these chapters restored.
I've been considering replacing my copies of the early volumes, but I need to know at which volume they stopped excising material. Anyone know?
Thanks!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

This science story made me think of a certain heroine of our story here.  No, Shirley not.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/ ... causes-it/
-- ∇×V

Interesting little piece, I would imagine it would do one of several things.

My first thought was that it'd allow Doug to follow a checklist of arbitrary length and complete it when the song ends. Even if the checklist normally takes hours or days. It does not guarantee however that the checklist has everything marked as good/functional/ready to go, it only tells him what the checklist would normally tell him and take the actions necessary to run through the entire checklist.

Another option was that it'd allow Doug to run through the checklist for a space or aircraft and by magic force it to be ready for use as the song (and checklist) ends. For probably obvious reasons I would expect this to be rather expensive, and get even more so as the craft increases in size/capacity/etc.

A third option is that it's a Summon Lunar Lander or Summon Mission Control effect. Which is mostly useless, but still.