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Real and speculative aspects of SF science.
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Turning Phobos and Deimos into colonies
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Orbital habitats are easier to construct and support, and if done properly, a hell of a lot more pleasant, than planetary ones. As for terraforming, it's an order of magnitude less practical than orbital settlement. Considered practically, it seems reasonable that orbital colonies around Mars will in the short and medium term support many... more »
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IBM simulates cat brain
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I'm surprised this hasn't popped up in here yet: [link] ficantly-smarter-than-cat.ars? utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss& utm_campaign= rss Or, in short form: [link] In summary, IBM has built a simulator on a supercomputer that's capable... more »
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Odyssey Writing Workshop
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Hello, If you write science fiction, fantasy, or horror, you might be interested in the Odyssey Writing Workshop. The 2010 workshop will be held from June 7th to July 16th at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. Odyssey provides a great opportunity to improve your skills and receive feedback from editors and authors. More... more »
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Disease research I seem to recall...
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I'm looking for evidence of a breakthrough that I remember as occuring in the late 1990s. If I remember correctly, scientists in Australia were trying to make calicivirus more deadly to rabbits. In so doing, they added a protein to the virus coat that made it effectively invisible to immune cells, boosting its lethality to near 100%. Problem was, the 'cloak' protein... more »
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Excuse me!! Would you stop for a moment?!
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Excuse me!! Would you stop for a moment?! O...man...Haven't you thought-one day- about yourself ? Who has made it? Have you seen a design which hasn't a designer ?! Have you seen a wonderful,delicate work without a worker ?! It's you and the whole universe!.. Who has made them all ?!! You know who ?.. It's "ALLAH",prise be to him.... more »
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Looking for an ancient cilivization?
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A general form of this topic has been posted in this group in the past, but certain aspects never gained a consensus, and the current posters are not well represented in those threads, so I'll give it a go . . . An historian recently said that the troves found this year will, when properly analyzed, effectively double our knowledge of the Bronze Age.... more »
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2012 OT: Preview And Review Spoilers
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1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 In this movie, Earth suffers massive geological instabilities, resulting in LA and other cities collapsing into vast sinkholes. One review I have read (in the Spotlight section of the November 12 Davis Enterprise) says that solar flares are the cause of the geological instability. How... more »
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