Links for 15-02-2007
Doctorow interviewed again, determinism and criminal justice, Dave Edelman on Mervyn Peake, put your name or logo on a satellite…
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1 – NASA – The Moon is a School for Exploration
“On the Moon, astronauts can develop and test techniques for building habitats, harvesting resources and operating machinery in low gravity, high vacuum, harsh radiation, pervasive dust and fantastic extremes of temperature…”
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2 – Janus Magazine interviews Cory Doctorow
“I think [blogging is] an instinctive thing to do for a lot of people; it’s something that is deeply human, it is deeply rooted in us.”
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3 – Tapping Brains for Future Crimes
“A team of neuroscientists announced a scientific breakthrough last week in the use of brain scans to discover what’s on someone’s mind.” Criminal justice, meet determinism. Ouch. This could get very nasty, as PKD realised.
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4 – Year’s Best SF 12 selections
“Here are the stories that David Hartwell and I selected for inclusion in the Year’s Best SF 12.” Looks like another good line up – I need to get some anthology action in my life, I think.
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5 – Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is A ‘Cosmic Graffiti Artist’
“Astronomers [...] have found that Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, is a “cosmic graffiti artist,” pelting the surfaces of at least 11 other moons of Saturn with ice particles sprayed from its spewing surface geysers.”
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6 – Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast and Titus Alone
David Louis Edelman takes a look at these unique classics of genre literature.
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7 – SCI FI DRIVE-IN
Good news! SciFi.com has made available free-to-watch streamed scifi movie classics, including Metropolis! The bad news? Damn things won’t play for a UK head using Firefox. Typical.
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Old pictures of 60s-era home-made personal hovercraft concepts. I want one!
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9 – The Ultimate Glide: PlanetSpace’s Suborbital Travel Plan
“Even as the private spaceflight firm PlanetSpace, Inc. aims for orbital space shots, the Chicago-based company is also drawing up plans for a suborbital Earth transit system.”
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10 – Charles in Space
Dr. Charles Simonyi (inventor of M’soft Word) is blogging his entire space tourist training and flight experience. I am *so* jealous.
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11 – Your Name Into Space
“We invite you to participate in this landmark mission by uploading content to be printed on our spacecraft.” That is just so cool – but not too cheap at $35 per square centimeter.
