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3·2 days agoThe article doesn’t say it (it actually doesn’t explain anything very well), but the implication to me seems to be that Jupiter was much hotter in the past, shrinking (and becoming less magnetically active) as it cooled?
I imagine this has implications for aging gas giants. What will Jupiter be like in a billion years?
2·2 days agoI’ve been humming this tune for days. I haven’t been able to get it out of my head.
3·3 days agoData has scanned everywhere,
Searching for a sign.
And there within the warp core,
Is the answer to a never ending time loop!
2·3 days agoThey are aimed at like 10-12 year olds. But they also take 10-12 year olds seriously and assume they want to read good stories with interesting characters. They’re in a similar subgenre with Treasure Planet. I would absolutely devour an animated or CGI adaptation. Spacebread is fun and beautiful, but Born of Flame is amazingly good. The world building for the books is unique and deep.
Well, yeah, when white dudes do it, it’s just healthy sexual domination, helping the poor, traumatized white women heal from the experience of being assaulted by orcs / killer whales (happened!) / brown people. Also, wanting to have sex with 14 year old girls is just, you know, a dude being a dude right? It’s just natural! (Also discussed in the same book with the killer whales)
Yeah, they decisively defeated the Mohdri in book three. Then he wrote like 4 more books.
warning! spoiler!
The Mohdri is a good guy now. It turns out he was just lonely and misunderstood. Not kidding, kindly ignore and forget about all the mass murder and enslavement. All along, he just needed people to like him and give him a chance and teach him how to be decent and compassionate and how to act more like a Trill and less like a Goa’uld.
The new bad guys are Nazi horse furries. He literally describes them neighing and whinnying as they monologue about galactic domination. I just picture a My Little Pony with a Hitler mustache and a swastika cutie mark. Don’t even mention their species name, it’s like a popsicle stick level horse pun.
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Ooo, I loved those when I was 12, probably read them 6 times. I should read them again.
Spacebread and Born of Flame also stood the test of time.
I was reading some Heinlein a little while ago
Oh yes, the guy who gave us the line " A father and his daughter got onto a starship, a husband and his wife got off." I
Zahn has no defense as a modern author.
I mean, he has been writing sci-fi since the '80s. But if you go back and read some of his earlier stuff, he really hasn’t grown much as a writer. In fact, I think he kind of peaked in the '90s with the original Thrawn cycle (and the Icarus Hunt and the Conquerors trilogy). Most of what he’s written since then has been formulaic rehashes of his glory days (sequels to the Cobra books, sequels to the Icarus Hunt, prequels to the Thrawn books).
If an author constantly talked positively about the rape in the book
**Cough JohnRingo cough cough
That’s exactly how I’m feeling right now.
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3·5 days agoSomething very similar happens to me in some Windows games on Mint with Cinnamon, especially older games running using Proton. I’ve had it happen recently with Age of Mythology and Fallout New Vegas.
Unfortunately, I don’t have the answer for you, but I can tell you you’re not alone.
3·5 days agoYay, a time travel episode.
Also, thespec.com has some very obnoxious javascript going on.
2·13 days agoKnow people that worked with him, can confirm.
“Move fast and break things” Startup mindset is dangerous when taking your customers into potentially hostile environments. If only Michael Crichton had warned us about that decades ago.
Now Lt. Warf, Tasha and I jump out of the targ, taking them totally by surprise!
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