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Inspirational and Meta Sites Redux
12-25-2012, 03:55 AM
http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/top ... Meta-Sites]Old thread is old. New thread is new.
A bit of a different webpage: a forum post of my own, over on the SJGames forums, made in hopes of getting some replies.
http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=101788]Request for gaming stories - Gernsback-2
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One for the 3D modelers:
I just noticed that " ptropeAerospace DART" is on Clearance over at Renderosity - this means that it's marked down before they remove it from the catalog. This is the model that I used for the Sammies' Bolitho-class ship, so if you think you're ever going to want to use that ship in an image and you don't already have it, grab it now.
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Hells, it's Ptrope, who's well known among the Trek modeler set. I'm willing to throw down based on that. 
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This might happen in Fenspace... easily!
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Bob Schroeck Wrote:This looks like something the Fen would come up with, only it's NASA. I'm sorry if this offends the gravity of the situation, but while reading that, I couldn't get the tune of " The [i]Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered at All[/i]" out of my mind. If they had compared the probes to puffer fish, I would have had no such problem.
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Levity vs. Gravity
01-03-2013, 09:49 PM
Gravity requires levity to mete out the opposite force required to keep it from sucking itself into an overly serious singularity.
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Thanks to Chris Hadfield aboard the ISS, we now know that " playing [guitar] in space is actually an improvement, since the strings aren't damped by gravity and the guitar can resonate longer."
Something to remember for the Musicians' Aid Society members out there...
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I note that Mr. Hadfield is a Trekkie and a brave soul, daring to don a red shirt.
I'm not linking directly because I'm on my iPhone, which makes it awkward, but in the "related articles" section for the one robkelk linked, there's an article about Neffi, a spacefaring jumping spider which died four days after returning to Earth.
I think I need to go to sleep, because the above is less comprehensible than my usual...
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So, is this a blow for or against Warsie/USA relations?
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robkelk Wrote:So, is this a blow for or against Warsie/USA relations? No, this is a "we recognize that the Death Star is not ours to build..."
Thats a major UP for Warsie/US relations. 
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I like how the response just talks about practical concerns (and plays up peaceful science, which is awesome), and totally neglects to mention the SALT.
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Here's something the Venus and Mars Terraforming Projects would certainly know about:
From the BBC, an article on the sloppy, random and hodge-podge "terraforming" of Ascension Isle, and how in just a few decades it turned into a thriving ecology that couldn't exist anywhere else.
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is this useful? Because it suggests that you don't need to be
incredibly careful and precise when you try to start an ecosystem -- you
just have to throw enough living things together fast enough.
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
And another one...
shooting things into orbit.
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http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/]Interplanetary Cessna
For Fenspace, the important stuff's near the bottom, where he talks about man-powered flight being possible on Titan. Not "practical" - yet - but "possible."
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The reaction a Mad gets the least often... and wants the most.
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Say Good-Bye, Sir Isaac.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/201 ... old-fusion
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Heh, how much ya wanna bet Roger Shaywer is working with the EEA? Or weren't the Brits trying to put an oil rig turned space station into orbit?
Edit:
Just found possible evidence for psuedo-Aurelian Vampirism, ala Buffy. Will this make a certain Whedonite subfaction happy or concerned?
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