Congrats to Jordin
Daniel R. Reitman
managed to win a prize in the bargain.
So, can we build the starway yet?
Dan, ad nauseam
Arthur T.
I guess they're building a stairway to the heavens.
--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" intergate "dot" com
Looking for a z/OS (IBM mainframe) systems programmer position
Joe Kesselman
Weber's _Ashes_Of_Victory_, which Jordin (or one of his distant
descendants who shares his name?) appears in. I've only encountered one
scene with him so far, but I was suitably amused.
Auction winner, I presume?
Mark Horning
wrote:
Presumably, Weber was auctioning off bit parts a while ago. Proceeds
went to the Con's charity auction. I Remember Mitchel Burnside-Clapp
winning a "glorious death" at CopperCon 19.
Mark
Paul Rubin
Power beams are sublime, so nobody will mind if they cook an
occasional goose.
msminlr
>
> According to the article, "They said their real goal is to develop a
> business based on the idea of beaming power."
>
> "The launch cannon thunders, the pilot beam burns..."
>
Michael Kube-McDowell DID call the laser/ice drive in THE QUIET POOLS
the "Kare-Kantrowicz drive"
Margaret
Joe Kesselman
(Sorry, hadn't yet put the preceding volume back on the bookshelf and
grabbed the wrong one to remind myself of the title.)
Joe Kesselman
> Presumably, Weber was auctioning off bit parts a while ago. Proceeds
> went to the Con's charity auction. I Remember Mitchel Burnside-Clapp
> winning a "glorious death" at CopperCon 19.
I've been amused, but not tempted, by those auctions when they've gone
by in the past. Seeing the results might just change my mind about
bidding at some point. It's more an in-joke than literary immortality,
but more amusing than I expected.
Joe Kesselman
(Jordin did a lecture on this project at the Worldcon, which was a nice
overview of the challenges involved. I don't know whether he has put a
version of that talk on line anywhere.)
John Davis
Look up one of our own (A filker) Dr. Jordan Kare
Dr. Kare is of course a Doctor of Science, Rocket Science as it turns
out, and has a plan to power rockets using ground based power stations
and beaming the power... Mr, Kube-McDowell's "Laser/Ice" drive, is I
suspect, Dr. Kare's design.
--
John from Detroit E-Dress is smoked, Replace INVALID with net
haro...@gmail.com
Wow! That's twice in this year that Dr. Kare has hit the news with
his lasers.. (Bug zapper in the spring.)
Leslie
wrote:
Hmm, problem with beamed power is that it's hard on anything that
happens to get in the way of the beam: clouds, birds, small
aircraft... How would you warn them off?
--Leslie <;)))><
www.lesliefish.com
Joe Kesselman
> Hmm, problem with beamed power is that it's hard on anything that
> happens to get in the way of the beam: clouds, birds, small
> aircraft... How would you warn them off?
My assumption would be beam stops, excluded airspace, and "we cook an
occasional goose" -- though actually, I'm not sure exactly what energy
levels we'd be talking about when spread over beam width.
Gary Ehrlich
double-take while reading the paper. 8-)
-- Gary
JaneG
wrote:
Jordin also participated (wonderfully) in the space concert that
FilKONtario presented at the world con, and came to the filk circle at
night.
Rafe Culpin
(Daniel R. Reitman) wrote:
> Jordin's team has demonstrated the feasibility of beaming power, and
> managed to win a prize in the bargain.
He even got on the BBC - see the last few seconds of the video here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8344670.stm
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