Bones: "The Bullet in the Brain"

Well, that was unusually graphic, even for Bones.

Did it bother anyone else that

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Bones: "The Bullet in the Brain"

Well, that was unusually graphic, even for Bones.

Did it bother anyone else that

SPOILER

( Read more... )

Bones: "The Bullet in the Brain"

Well, that was unusually graphic, even for Bones.

Did it bother anyone else that

SPOILER

( Read more... )

Joseph Nebus asks an interesting question

Over on rasfw, Nebus asks:

Hey, what's stylish in science-fictional apartment buildings and
apartment blocks these days? Has there been any substantial conceptual
development since the urbmon/arcology phase of a couple decades back?
Or are all apartments miserable places because they imply living in
cities rather than science fiction's preferred habitat, the remote
country house/asteroid/mad science island?

Joseph Nebus asks an interesting question

Over on rasfw, Nebus asks:

Hey, what's stylish in science-fictional apartment buildings and
apartment blocks these days? Has there been any substantial conceptual
development since the urbmon/arcology phase of a couple decades back?
Or are all apartments miserable places because they imply living in
cities rather than science fiction's preferred habitat, the remote
country house/asteroid/mad science island?

Joseph Nebus asks an interesting question

Over on rasfw, Nebus asks:

Hey, what's stylish in science-fictional apartment buildings and
apartment blocks these days? Has there been any substantial conceptual
development since the urbmon/arcology phase of a couple decades back?
Or are all apartments miserable places because they imply living in
cities rather than science fiction's preferred habitat, the remote
country house/asteroid/mad science island?

Something to use in a future history

Quoted with author Doug M.'s permission:

Assume _arguendo_ that money spent on space continues to grow at a bit less than
2% per year for the next 90 years or so. Come 2100, total annual space
spending would be ~5x what it is today, or about $150 billion per year.


I once did a BOTE calculation of the cost of a manned Mars mission and came up
with ~~$600 billion in 2010 dollars. (If that seems high, consider that
Curiosity -- an unmanned one-way probe that will weigh just under a metric ton
-- is about $3 billion, while Apollo cost a bit under $200 billion in 2010
dollars.)

Amortizing that over a decade, it starts to look plausible for someone to do it
sometime in the 2090s. (Whether it would be a good idea, then or ever, is
another question.)

Which of course reminded me of this bit from the beginning of Forbidden Planet:

In the final decade of the 21st century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. By 2200 AD they had reached the other planets of our solar system.

Something to use in a future history

Quoted with author Doug M.'s permission:

Assume _arguendo_ that money spent on space continues to grow at a bit less than
2% per year for the next 90 years or so. Come 2100, total annual space
spending would be ~5x what it is today, or about $150 billion per year.


I once did a BOTE calculation of the cost of a manned Mars mission and came up
with ~~$600 billion in 2010 dollars. (If that seems high, consider that
Curiosity -- an unmanned one-way probe that will weigh just under a metric ton
-- is about $3 billion, while Apollo cost a bit under $200 billion in 2010
dollars.)

Amortizing that over a decade, it starts to look plausible for someone to do it
sometime in the 2090s. (Whether it would be a good idea, then or ever, is
another question.)

Which of course reminded me of this bit from the beginning of Forbidden Planet:

In the final decade of the 21st century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. By 2200 AD they had reached the other planets of our solar system.

Something to use in a future history

Quoted with author Doug M.'s permission:

Assume _arguendo_ that money spent on space continues to grow at a bit less than
2% per year for the next 90 years or so. Come 2100, total annual space
spending would be ~5x what it is today, or about $150 billion per year.


I once did a BOTE calculation of the cost of a manned Mars mission and came up
with ~~$600 billion in 2010 dollars. (If that seems high, consider that
Curiosity -- an unmanned one-way probe that will weigh just under a metric ton
-- is about $3 billion, while Apollo cost a bit under $200 billion in 2010
dollars.)

Amortizing that over a decade, it starts to look plausible for someone to do it
sometime in the 2090s. (Whether it would be a good idea, then or ever, is
another question.)

Which of course reminded me of this bit from the beginning of Forbidden Planet:

In the final decade of the 21st century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. By 2200 AD they had reached the other planets of our solar system.