Links for 09-07-2007
Unfamiliar life in space, Steorn’s perpetual motion bluff is blown, Gibson interviewed, new/old spacesuit design …
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1 – Looking for Life Unlike Our Own
“If life exists on Enceladus, or Ceres, or in some bizarre Kuiper Belt ecosystem, it’s not going to be operating on the same principles as life here on Earth.”
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2 – Perpetual motion goes into reverse
“You might remember an Irish company called Steorn: … it took out a full page advert in the Economist to announce that it had discovered a source of free energy, a perpetual motion machine no less …” Guess what – it didn’t work!
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3 – William Gibson interviewed by the College Crier
“I also started with the assumption that all fiction is speculative. That all fiction is an attempt to make a model of reality and any model of reality is necessarily speculative because it’s generated by an individual writer.”
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4 – Have Spacesuit, Will Travel
“Compared to present-day suits it is inherently lighter, safer, more flexible and comfortable. The proven principle of mechanical counter-pressure, rather than the tenuous pressure of air, protects wearers from the vacuum of Space.”
