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Category Archives: Sci-Fi
Is the game EVE online a genius player driven world or ‘spreadsheets in space’?
I actually enjoyed an EVE book once – a worthy space opera. But as I started to play (a year back) it looked like getting to the exciting battles at the end of this trailer was going to take months … Continue reading
How long to rebuild after the fall of civilisation?
How long for technological civilisation to recover after an all out nuclear war or high mortality pandemic? 1. I PREDICT AT LEAST REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS WITHIN A YEAR. After some unspeakably horrible months after the initial crisis, survivors will settle into some … Continue reading
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Lunar city to save us from climate change?
What about solving climate change by building an industrial city on the moon? A good lunar city could use solar power to launch PowerSats via maglev railgun into orbit around the Earth to power the world from abundant RELIABLE solar … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Geo-engineering, Industrial Ecosystems, Sci-Fi, Solar, Space
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MR ROBOT!
Calling all geeks: great review of MR ROBOT (without any significant spoilers). As always, there’s just so much more symbolism in these shows than I catch first time round!
Posted in Computers, Media, Movies and TV, Robots, Sci-Fi
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Compare Sci-Fi and reality
I love how close the Starhopper looks to 1950’s sci-fi dreams of the future. Pretty close really! I guess the 1950’s guys imagined their rocket landing a bit like a space-plane, and hence the larger wings. They probably couldn’t imagine … Continue reading
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