I saw this image on Xitter:
I didn't think that what the 'verse would be adding today is the Blue-Green Ecociates GR-00T Treehammer orbitally-launched forestation cluster notbomb, but it turns out that's just the ecopoesis tool no-one knew they needed.
Here as a partial apology for a slow COVID-caused month is a collection of random things of a snippet-like nature I have said over the past couple of months in places other than this blog. Enjoy them, such as they are! On attempting a rapid “unsafe start” of a fusion
“Good morning, Talentar, and welcome to the second day of Severe Weather Disposal Week! The ecopoesis operations team tell us they’ve got a lot of moist air to dump, so the theme for the day is wet, wet, wet! “Up in the northern highlands, expect torrential rainfall in the
Listel (Principalities) was always a marginal world. An atmosphere too thick, clouds too hazy with hydrocarbons and too prevalent, an ecology containing some worrying chaotic irregularities, and the whole, moreover, orbiting a primary which – while not technically qualifying as a flare star – nonetheless possessed a rough and turbulent cycle that
Baby Planet: Nice trick if you happen to have a big lump of metastable neutronium or a tiny kernel (artificial black hole) handy to make up the gravity deficit. As far as I know, though, while it’s technologically possible and exists in the form of ambitious architect’s plans,