Links for 10-01-2007
Top ten cybernetics upgrades, new SETI methods, scan your prose for cliches, Rudy Rucker interviewed…
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“Transhumanists are philosophers who believe that one day, cybernetic upgrades will be so powerful, elegant, and inexpensive that everyone will want them.” The hard sf fan’s ultimate wish-list!
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“Our goal is to bring clean energy to planet Earth using the abundant resources of space & encourage sustainable energy supplies like those available in space.” Interesting stuff.
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3 – Listening for ET“Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are proposing a new method that could detect Earth-like civilizations around the 1,000 nearest stars.”
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“…Bussard has spent well over a decade [...] working on devices that could be the most practical approach to fusion ever developed. They’re cheap, small and produce helium as their only waste product.” w00t!
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5 – Cliche FinderA handy writer’s tool – paste in your text, and it scans through for glaring cliches that you should be avoiding like the plague…
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“The pinion is a 1.8-nm-diameter molecule functioning as a six-toothed wheel interlocked at the edge of a self-assembled molecular island acting as a rack.” Whoa.
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“We are trying to get this technology into as many hands as possible,” Malone told New Scientist. “The kit is designed to be as simple as possible.” Is Fab@home opening a Pandora’s Box?
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“…some semi-recent numbers on sf magazine publishing. “Subs” means sales through subscription, “stands” means copies sold in stores…” Yipes – this really *is* a small scene!
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“TAD: (sniffles) I just feel vulnerable, you know? I think it’s because I’m a stand-alone. Ghost Brigades has Old Man’s War. I’ve got no one.” Scalzi reveals more of the rich inner life that fuels his writing career.
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“A basic principle of counterculture is that if most people believe something, it’s probably not true. The news is a snare and a delusion. Live your own life; find God in your backyard and in your loved ones.” Old hippies rule!
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