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Re: [info] The Extinction Oscillator

beth.fulton@... — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:49:45 GMT

G'day, ... The original land plants were miniature compared to what we're used to so while there was a pretty catastrophic loss worldwide enough species and

Re: Mine the asteroids, go bankrupt

Duane J. Oldsen — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:43:14 GMT

... Agreed. I would also be interested in reading a notional book called "Astropolitics, How Solar System Layouts and Delta-V Limitations Shape Political

Re: Starstrafing

Duane J. Oldsen — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:34:49 GMT

... Entirely plausible. A Megascale extension of this . Of course, you can also use reaction rockets or notional gravitational

Re: [info] The Extinction Oscillator

rmrobinson1227 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:57:24 GMT

... Yikes - sounds like the Perils of Pauline! But how did land plants survive triggering a snowball Earth? If the snowball was complete, I'd think that would

Re: [info] The Extinction Oscillator

beth.fulton@... — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:02:59 GMT

G'day guys, While this is a nice little piece for thought more broadly the jury is still out on definite causes for past major extinction events, the evidence

Re: [Fwd: listmind knows all ..]

Markus Baur — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:36:42 GMT

thank you both for giving away the secret .. 8-) servus markus ... -- markus baur SCA: markus von brixlegg schluesselgasse 3/5

Re: [Fwd: listmind knows all ..]

Nyrath the nearly wise — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:24:24 GMT

... I know. Where do you think I got the answer from? ;)

Re: Starstrafing

David McMillan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:41:25 GMT

... Heck, James Nicoll proposed something like this years ago on rasfw. The "Dyson-Nicoll Laser" was essentially a means to turn the outer surface of a Dyson

Re: [Fwd: listmind knows all ..]

David McMillan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:25:30 GMT

... I know it was published in Analog, probably during the early '90s. Actually, this is the kind of thing that rec.arts.sf.written excels at -- you should try

Re: SF and the "science doesn't know everything" dodge

Luke Campbell — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:48:55 GMT

... You probably shouldn't think of electrons as classical objects - they're not really like tiny billiard balls. For one thing, they can be very hard to

Re: SF and the "science doesn't know everything" dodge

Jonathan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:16:55 GMT

A bit of a thread necro, but I've been out of town since my last post, so I haven't been able to follow this thread. ... This seems weird, please elaborate.

Re: Superconducting Power Storage Question

Michael Simon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:34:40 GMT

Cool, thank you. Michael

Re: Superconducting Power Storage Question

Luke Campbell — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:43:02 GMT

... There is no doubt some angular momentum associated with an energized solenoid, it is just very low. For example, take a 10 cm radius solenoid made of the

Re: Mine the asteroids, go bankrupt

Anthony Jackson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:37:36 GMT

... Well, if you have a method of fuel purification a ten ton probe might be able to send back a thousand tons of cargo, but yeah, current costs to orbit are

Re: Mine the asteroids, go bankrupt

averymallcow — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:32:47 GMT

... I look forward to their book with interest now, as this conflicts with most of the statements I've read in other sources (eg Mining the Sky). However, I do