Mark Graves pointed this out: http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00721.html Scroll down to the bottom for mention of Robinson's First Law and John's Law, obviously ...
... Well, he put it to good use and did research, and didn't go from hip like some sci-fi movie directors tend to nowadays. I think it would be worthwhile...
... You also should factor in the length of the local day. It seems that the logic should be, divide the local year by the number of local days and always...
... European chain smokers and clueless computer users do not make for exciting story telling. :-) But, the social engineering aspects are interesting. -- ...
... Actually secure targets often do require physical penetration, though once inside it's typical to just steal hardware that's likely to contain the...
... years ... easy ... not ... that ... Yes. Y and C are in local days. Y is the unrounded year in local days, C is the rounded year in local days. ... of ... ...
... His original post does make the comparison to real-world hacking, but it's not properly paragraphed. You never realize how important paragraphs are until...
I remembered in Neuromancer et al how cyberspace was portrayed as a three dimensional area inhabited by brightly colored polygons. A cyber crook had to travel...
Yep, and you keep misspelling my name, to this day. :) It was one of those realizations that you look at fictional SuperScience (TM) drives, and discover that...
Huh? For the Bajorians to be the Palestinians the Cardassians would have to be the Israelites, and that does not seem to fit at all. I can certainly see the...
... Ah yes. I get that all the time. I think Winchell spelled my name correctly, but there are zillions of others who keep writing down "John." I guess that's...
... Previously... ... Big huh here too! I always thought that the Bajorians were the Israelis and the Cardassians were the Arabs? The Cardassians being all...
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Scott Palter
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Jun 3, 2007 2:38 pm
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I wish I could remember where I saw it, but I remember quite a few of the show's writers remarking that they saw quite a few paralels between the Israeli...
... Of course, it's also possible that they were making a generic point. It's also possible that a bunch of different conflicts resemble one another....
G'day, What level of light does the planet have? Photosynthesis is much more efficient than thermosynthesis so it is likely that it would take over if there...
... more ... over ... out. ... dependency ... enzyme ... photosynthetic the ... (which can ... what ... damped a ... Light level undefined. It's a cool idea...
... I'll kindly disagree, we travel, but with permission. For example, tracert (trace route) shows ten hops from where I am to the groups server that...
I've heard that water is a very efficient coolant. I have an idea (again): Why not design your spaceplane/rocketship so that during re-entry, use water to cool...
... You use coolant to keep something from getting too hot. It would take a lot of water to keep metal from melting. On the other tentacle, carbon fiber has...
... Your ship's frame perhaps? ... I was actually thinking of some kind of composite, perhaps involving tungsten. I've read something about "radiatively cooled...
... [space opera warning] Just to take that left turn at Albuquerque... I read the title and I thought of reentry and space elevators. Imagine that humanity...
... Its efficiency depends on what it's being used for. It's a good choice for a medium temperature (300-500K) coolant. It's not a particularly good choice for...
... Not to mainly handle re-entry, but to ease it. The hottest part of the re-entry is still handled by the material of the ship's outer hull. Water would be...
