Two thoughts and a question about Toaru Kagaku no Rērugan

Given that all the esper powers are at their heart reality warping, teaching them all that effort can increase skill even though the evidence suggests there are hard personal limits may still work if there's a student whose personal reality includes effort increasing skill without hard personal limits. In fact, it probably works better the more espers believe it works.

If I've understood the rules correctly, ESP is something a person does on their own while magic is a collective effort. This should have interesting political ramifications in some nations.

Is it ever explained why people think having a Level Six would be a good idea or is this one of those Kwisatz Haderach dealies, where the researchers are so caught up in the work they've forgotten to wonder about consequences?

[added later]

I think it's really touching that Therestina has her grandfather's smile.

Didn't Conrad Hilton want to do this?

Back in 2009, Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte fired up the imaginations of would-be astronauts the world round when he paid an estimated $35 million dollars to spend 12 days aboard the International Space Station How many of us who are too large, too small or too out of physical shape to be a space traveller cheered when a rather “ordinary” human took place in space? Well, get in line for the next adventure… because just a mere $28,750,000 might buy you a ticket for a 30-day stay in Earth orbit.

Motivation

Hoaxer was angling for book deal.

Images of Vesta

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Not feeling the love for

"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made".

That's positively affectionate compared to this:

"Last month the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave a Nebula award to a piece that contained no science worth speaking of. There was very little fiction in it either, if fiction is the narrative of imagination; whatever images might have been in its author’s mind, what made it onto the page was determinedly unimaginative, and less narrated than vaguely gestured at. It put forward no fantasy, unless the fantasy that the world is an uncomplicated place populated chiefly by straw men and contrived examples is a fantasy. What writing was in it was mostly bad.

I suppose that as much as there was any of anywhere in it, there was some America. Maybe that’s something.

Judge for yourself!

From Subterranean Press

The Return of Master Li

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