“What makes the Blood of Tyrants and the Sanguinary Enforcers of the Liberty Ethic extremists is that they divide the entire population of the universe into two categories: people who respect the principle of consent, and people who need to be shot. This eliminates the two additional categories the rest
Go Mad From The Revelation: Fortunately, it is theorized, just about everything that truly falls into this category requires considerable mind-expanding (i.e., technological vastening) in order to comprehend the revelation, which same expansion protects you from being driven mad by it. And when you unplug from the vastening equipment,
Well, I was going to post the second part of The Shipping Trade today, except that writing it didn’t happen because of day job, and so forth. Then, I thought I might post a sketch of the ship involved, just to give y’all an idea of what you’
Handwavium (in General) I try to write the technology in my universe in such a way that at least 95% of it falls within the laws of physics as we know them, or at least as we mostly know them and assuming that they’re being fairly kind to us
I just became a patron, via Patreon, of Winchell Chung’s Atomic Rockets web site. And I am taking this moment now to tell you two things. Firstly, whether you write SF – in which case I’m sure you already know about it and don’t need me to tell
Going Critical: Averted. In four ways: Fission reactors in the universe are very well designed, ideally – although not always – to keep messy things like prompt criticality out of the possible performance envelope. Some of them, the higher-power ones, can still quietly melt down (giving you basically a corium puddle in
Kythera System, Lunar Transshipment One, Docking Ring Gilek, Third Quadrant, Afterquay Level Offices of Hyneral, Myninine and mor-Vertak, Bonded Cargo Brokers “Good shift, brokers. Athné Calaris-ith-Calandia…” “…master of Greed and Mass-Energy! Cheneos-class free trader, I seem to recall. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen you in-system,
Goggles Do Something Unusual: Since medical technology has long since adapted to the point of being able to fix just about any eye problem imaginable, any time you see glasses on someone’s face – and there are periods of history where you will see this quite a lot – you might
Go for the Eye: As a tactic, it still generally works, but do remember that not everybody keeps their sensors in the same place.
God Guise: Subverted; arguably, this is what a lot of the Transcend’s archai are doing when they adopt the trappings and guises of the mythological eikones as a means to interact with regular sophonts, but in this case, it’s not like all parties don’t know perfectly well
God Emperor: Originally, the “Divine Majesty” in the style of the Imperial Couple was merely metaphorical; one step above the “Imperial Majesty” previously used by the lesser Emperorships of Cestia and Selenaria, and deemed appropriate by those who deal in the semiotics of such things for Alphas I and Seledië
For astronauts flying in space, spacesuits are a must-have accessory. But spacesuit technology has come a long way since the dawn of human spaceflight. Tonight, MIT professor Dava Newman will discuss her BioSuit spacesuit design and you can watch it live online. http://www.space.com/25885-biosuit-spacesuit-tech-design-webcast.html This may