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This is cute
Sep. 16th, 2012 11:17 amAnd yet it's probably only a couple of seconds at any given moment from having become Timothy Treadwell: the prequel.
Sep. 16th, 2012
For the record
Sep. 16th, 2012 12:16 pm
"This space science suggesting crewed space flight is challenging is ideologically unacceptable and therefore the researchers are acting from the most dishonest and self-serving of motives"
is just as bad coming from lefties as it is when it comes from right wingers.
POD: 260 million years ago, when most of the land on Earth was concentrated in one region. A supercomet does the unlikely and collides with Jupiter. This releases enough radiant energy to resurface the moons of Jupiter. It also is bright enough to blind anything within AU that happens to be looking in the direction Jupiter when the impact happens. By bad luck, Pangaea is on the Jupiterward side of the Earth at the moment of impact.
Would this leave any detectable evidence in the fossil record? After all, lots of animals won't have been looking up at the sky at just the wrong moment.
Would this leave any detectable evidence in the fossil record? After all, lots of animals won't have been looking up at the sky at just the wrong moment.
Affair With A Green Monkey
The thing about Theodore Sturgeon, the author who wrote this, is that I am sure the reason kindly doctor Fritz comes across as a pompous jackass is because Sturgeon fully intended him to come across as a pompous jackass.
I would have sworn I had never read this but there are bits in it, like wha tthe significance of the green monkey is or the IQ of a mob, that are very familiar. Either I read it or other authors swiped stuff for their stories.
Helen O'Loy
Del Rey may be better known for having made it possible for shelves to have been crowded with half-rate Tolkien knock-offs but at one time he was a reasonably respected author in his own right (I have a half-memory he got hammered by writer's block). This is one of his best known stories.
With any other authors I'd make a crack about him not dating much but actually del Rey was married four times and at least three ended in tragedy; two wives died in car crashes and one, editor Judy-Lynn del Rey, died some months after suffering a brain hemorrhage. This would have been written a few years after del Rey's first wife died in a car crash. So, no stranger to romance or bereavement.
It's still kind of a horrible, sentimental story. Well, the bar was lower back then.
There were two details that caught my ear: one is the bit near the beginning where we learn the technology exists to medically end infatuation and love with "counter-hormones" and in at least some cases people can order this carried out on other people and professional doctors will carry that out. That's pretty creepy and worth a story in itself.
(when he cures the kids does he say "collected on a line" or "on a lie"? It sounds like line)
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The thing about Theodore Sturgeon, the author who wrote this, is that I am sure the reason kindly doctor Fritz comes across as a pompous jackass is because Sturgeon fully intended him to come across as a pompous jackass.
I would have sworn I had never read this but there are bits in it, like wha tthe significance of the green monkey is or the IQ of a mob, that are very familiar. Either I read it or other authors swiped stuff for their stories.
Helen O'Loy
Del Rey may be better known for having made it possible for shelves to have been crowded with half-rate Tolkien knock-offs but at one time he was a reasonably respected author in his own right (I have a half-memory he got hammered by writer's block). This is one of his best known stories.
With any other authors I'd make a crack about him not dating much but actually del Rey was married four times and at least three ended in tragedy; two wives died in car crashes and one, editor Judy-Lynn del Rey, died some months after suffering a brain hemorrhage. This would have been written a few years after del Rey's first wife died in a car crash. So, no stranger to romance or bereavement.
It's still kind of a horrible, sentimental story. Well, the bar was lower back then.
There were two details that caught my ear: one is the bit near the beginning where we learn the technology exists to medically end infatuation and love with "counter-hormones" and in at least some cases people can order this carried out on other people and professional doctors will carry that out. That's pretty creepy and worth a story in itself.
(when he cures the kids does he say "collected on a line" or "on a lie"? It sounds like line)
However ( Read more... )