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  • Commented on Do my Homework
    @7 When you factor in all the inefficiencies of transmitting power to earth, you don't really get all that much benefit from putting solar power stations in orbit instead of in sunny deserts on Earth. Since we understand how to...
  • Commented on Do my Homework
    I don't pretend to be able to think of stuff that nobody in the SF field has thought of, here's something that far too few writers have been thinking of: Various attempts have been made to imagine post-conflict, non-capitalist, non-coercive...
  • Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
    "The more I learn about him the less desire I have to read him." The advice I give anyone who has tried Heinlein and bounced off is to try again with his pre-war stuff (any of his story collections, plus...
  • Commented on Canned Monkeys Don't Ship Well, the Remix Version
    There's two separate sets of problems here. 1) How to build a space habitat that can be fully and completely self sufficient in the long term. and 2) How to send such a habitat across interstellar space in a semi-reasonable...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    "BSG is myth-making around the origin story of the Church of Latter-Day Saints; that is, it takes a distinctively Mormon view of the universe and its protagonists' embattled place in it." The original 1970's Galactica had a lot of Mormon...
  • Commented on The dog ate my homework
    Re: Word freezing. It's 2017, and Microsoft's flagship document creation software is still only marginally less frustrating than OCRing pages produced on a manual typewriter. Once again, I am so happy I adopted a policy, long ago, of never ever...
  • Commented on What else can you do with a Big Dumb Booster?
    "What are the other possible commercial applications of the ITS, besides sending a million optimists to Mars?" A booster capable of sending 500 tons into orbit would be a game changer -- its at least a 20x increase in the...
  • Commented on What else can you do with a Big Dumb Booster?
    What we don't know is how non-astronaut phenotypes... fare, and what the long term effects are (the record-holding astronauts and cosmonauts have still spent less than five years in orbit at this point). We also still have no idea of...
  • Commented on Follow the money: Apple vs. the FBI
    "A related question, then, is how much do you want to trust Apple with your data?" Wrong question. If you wish to have a smartphone that functions as intended, you will be giving your data to a corporate conglomerate. Which...
  • Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
    (assuming FTL is possible because it's not really space opera without it): -There's just one loophole in physics that permits FTL travel, -Which has just one method of implementation, so -All FTL enabled spacecraft have have the same kinds of...
  • Commented on What Goes Around...
    "Out of Tolkien came the clones." Don't forget the huge influence D&D had in kickstarting the market for Tolkien clones. Yes, nowadays it's a niche game for a small number of extremely nerdy players, but back in the late 70's...
  • Commented on A small research question
    I have a story in which brain-eating amoeba meet cold war politics meet environmental regulations. Mid 1980s, one of Reagan's pet projects for ramping the cold war back up again was to increase plutonium production even though the US had...
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