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12:57 pm
james_nicoll
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India Mars Probe articles
As reported at the Planetary Society Blog:
A couple of articles on India's Mars Orbiter Mission were published on the news website The Week yesterday, and they're much more in-depth and insightful than the norm.
Mars is an oddly difficult target, with about two-thirds of Mars probes failing before planned mission end, some before observations began. Break a leg, India.
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11:45 am
cleolinda
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ALERT ALERT ALERT
ANNOUNCING KINDLE WORLDS
Get ready for Kindle Worlds, a place for you to publish fan fiction inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. With Kindle Worlds, you can write new stories based on featured Worlds, engage an audience of readers, and earn royalties. Amazon Publishing has secured licenses from Warner Bros. for Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries, with licenses for more Worlds on the way.
Please note the Content Guidelines for Kindle Worlds:
@cleolinda: THEY'RE BASICALLY STAMPING OUT THE PORN YOU GUYS. Also not allowing crossovers.
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Tags: fandom, fanfic, numbered thoughts are organized thoughts, this is going to end well
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12:30 pm
james_nicoll
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What Harper knew and when he knew it curious left ambigious
Re Duffypocalpse and the Cheque of Doom
In the House of Commons yesterday, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, temporarily reverting to his former role as partisan fire extinguisher, said no, Harper knew nothing about the deal until, like other appalled Conservatives, he saw it on the evening news.
Strangely, Harper himself did not say that in his speech to his caucus, at least the portion of it that was public. Nor did Nigel Wright on Sunday, in his resignation letter. Nor did the PMO last week. In his remarks Harper ignored the payment entirely. In the other two cases the language was ever so carefully crafted to allow for some knowledge on his part, though not of “the means” or “the details.”
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12:23 pm
james_nicoll
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Gosh
Amazon announced Kindle Worlds today, describing it as “the first commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties for doing so.”
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11:13 am
james_nicoll
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Experience trumps youth
last night Fig learned that if he tosses the catnip sacket into air in a fit of exuberance, Groucho can snag it out of the air as he gallops past. Cut to sad looking kitten watching a growling cat hunched over the sachet, sitting back to Fig.
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10:38 am
woodwardiocom
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Star Trek Con
Are Creation Entertainment's Star Trek conventions any good? There's going to be one here in Boston in June...
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10:24 am
james_nicoll
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Yet another thing I didn't know about when I woke up
The National Personnel Records Center fire of 1973,[1] also referred to as the 1973 National Archives fire was a fire that occurred at the United States National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in Overland, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, on July 12, 1973, striking a severe blow to the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States.[...] NPRC, the custodian of military service records, lost approximately 16-18 million official military personnel records as a result of the fire.[...]
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The losses to Federal military records collection included:
80% loss to records of U.S. Army personnel discharged November 1, 1912, to January 1, 1960[2]
75% loss to records of U.S. Air Force personnel discharged September 25, 1947, to January 1, 1964, with names alphabetically after Hubbard, James E.[...]
Some U.S. Army Reserve personnel who performed their initial active duty for training in the late 1950s but who received final discharge as late as 1964.
None of the records that were destroyed in the fire had duplicate copies made, nor had they been copied to microfilm. No index of these records was made prior to the fire, and millions of records were on loan to the Veterans Administration at the time of the fire. This made it difficult to precisely determine which records were lost.
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10:23 am
james_nicoll
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Toronto's world-class mayor brings city fame it so desires
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's woes over crack cocaine allegations are providing plenty of late-night television fodder for Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and other comedians south of the border.
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07:23 am
joe_haldeman
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This space for rent?
The Starship Century Symposium proceeds apace. Aspace? Absolutely fascinating. More than a hundred space people gathered
Very concentrated work yesterday, more than twelve hours. Unwound with a glass of wine in the motel bar with a few of the participants. But only one glass, and then staggered up to bed. It's hard work, concentrating and taking notes (how'd I ever get through six years of college?)
Twenty-five pages in my 4X6 notebook, after fifteen pages the first day.
Greg Benford made an interesting comment from the audience yesterday. There are billions of dollars of "junk" in geosynchronous orbit – very high-tech junk – and it belongs to whoever goes up and claims it. Some American entrepreneur should be hatching plans now. (No other country yet has integrated public and private sectors in space flight, but that won't last long.) One thinks of a near-future story redolent of old pirate tales.
"Avast, Matey – can't get me space helmet on with this dagger between me teeth!"
One of my old MIT students, Peter Diamandis, came up in this regard. He's one of the founders of H.O.P.E. – Human Outer Planet Exploration. They want to prospect and claim the most valuable Near-Earth asteroid. There are about 1700 asteroids that are easier to get to than the Moon, which I didn't know, but it makes sense. (To use resources from the Moon, of course, you have to go down its gravity well and return; the asteroids are "nearer" in terms of energy.)
Well, I'm somewhat on stage today, a panel of sf writers. So I'd better do a little research.
Joe
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09:42 am
james_nicoll
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At the one minute fifty second mark
I spotted the first evidence I noticed that this particular future still includes non-caucasians.
[showing I should have looked closer: in LJ comments it is pointed out that "There's an Asian woman at 0:39, a black man at 1:08 and, judging by the accent, a Latino at 1:21.]
Brought to my attention by The Dragon's Tales
This sure looks like a white-washed version of this 1970s era novel.
Does Ben Bova know?
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