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Bridges are very often bottlenecks for traffic; there are generally at least three lanes of various sizes leading away from a bridge footing in a city, but the bridge is generall…
17 May 2011, 09:20
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"The storyline is again resumed after yet another break in the action. " Just a thought, has anyone ever suggested that the gaps are meant to represent missing volumes of Sev's a…
16 May 2011, 16:52
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This looks like part of the stuff I mentioned the last time we went around on Dollo, or maybe the time before. I am so glad that I didn't just imagine it.…
16 May 2011, 16:47
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The wormhole example is much simpler. The negative curvature makes a bridge between two portions of space-time, and time progresses identically as measured through the wormhole. …
15 May 2011, 01:09
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ahem. "You guys that already know this will see that I have abstracted numerous distracting features out of this account." This example is adapted from Richard Morris' TIME'S ARR…
14 May 2011, 21:22
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Let me try the train analogy. I'll number the steps for reference. You guys that already know this will see that I have abstracted numerous distracting features out of this accou…
14 May 2011, 05:33
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If and when that come to pass, there will be slightly fewer methods of time travel that don't violate known laws. This number may recover as further new discoveries are made.…
14 May 2011, 04:51
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Is it the same time everywhere on Mongo at once? :) Since the rate of time's progression is relative, you can't say travel is instantaneous without saying in which frame of refer…
13 May 2011, 18:05
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The animal statues in the atrium suggest a degree of ornamentation that might include curved reflectors that transform the various motions of the earth with regard to the sun int…
13 May 2011, 05:22
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http://www.harrietjames.sundials.co.uk/restoration.htm…
12 May 2011, 08:26
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If you agree that we as an actual society cannot practice abstention from exploitation, why are you maintaining that the irreducible minimum of exploitation can still be morally wr…
01 May 2011, 23:13
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I don't see how a such a democracy can obtain the means to enforce these ideals over all the world without corrupting them and rendering the enforcement moot.…
01 May 2011, 21:35
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Your suggested democracy under the rule of law does this: people outside the democracy's rule are not given equal protections to those within. This allows exploitation of those w…
01 May 2011, 17:19
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Sure, the war with aliens lets you isolate variables. Out actual wars have concerns about divided loyalties, inhumane treatment, atrocities and war crimes, etc. Oh, I got that y…
01 May 2011, 16:47
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We don't know that Omelas obliges people to put their kid in a hole, either. The hole has to be filled for Omelas to prosper more than it would otherwise, so a family that would …
01 May 2011, 16:46
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If your freedom to swing your arm doesn't end where my nose begins, obviously my nose is harmed for the benefit of you getting to swing your arm as you like. If we agree to limi…
01 May 2011, 16:31
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That's awfully kind of you; I would say it's a persuasive essay on the supremacy of patriotic duty dramatized as a war memoir. You're doing the bogus details as part of the dismi…
01 May 2011, 04:38
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Only if the S is for speculative. Plenty of other never-existed societies are written about without the benefit of an appeal to the authority of science for suspending disbelief …
01 May 2011, 04:27
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But there aren't any societies that are able to avoid harm to innocents for the benefit of others. How can it be morally wrong when it's impossible to do otherwise?…
01 May 2011, 03:42
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Can you tell me what page the lasers appear on?…
01 May 2011, 02:52
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But is "there's something wrong about the purposeful mistreatment and deprivation of an innocent" a useful or meaningful moral statement? Is the wrongness greater or lesser if the…
01 May 2011, 02:51
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Yeah, I know that feeling. I read, "Those Walk Away From Omelas," and thought, "This is supposed to be some kind of utopian/dystopian comment? Thhese people have this tremendousl…
30 Apr 2011, 21:08
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I've seen this part of the interview before, somehow...…
30 Apr 2011, 16:56
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More will, if only because the production part is getting cheaper, but plenty of films already fail in post, or never make it to post due to processing costs. One of the film cha…
29 Apr 2011, 22:45
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I believe all the principal photography is done, and I imagine they have HD closeups of their bodies in various positions sufficient to make meshes of them to cover any virtual r…
29 Apr 2011, 08:12
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Inferring from the producers' bios, I would say it's likely that the CGI is the whole reason for doing the film, like a star vehicle is for showing off the star. They thing in thei…
29 Apr 2011, 02:13
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Based on the last updates at the website, I believe that the postproduction was never completed partly because of the extreme expense of the CGI and other manipulations.…
28 Apr 2011, 23:02
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I think it would be more than demanding than that: Wolfe gives the reader a peek behind the veil, a glimpse both of how separate things are connected and of how connected things ca…
21 Apr 2011, 01:14
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While this sort of thing is possible, chatter in the spec-fic forums leads me to think it's often skipped or done with minimal amounts of underinformed entry-level labor, as it c…
20 Apr 2011, 15:47
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I think it might be part of his theme about how a single action can serve many purposes, variously good and evil, ultimately doing the will of the Increate. Even Nicky, who wears…
20 Apr 2011, 15:42
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And Wolfe is not the first to treat it thus: http://smithmeadows.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/American-Gothic.jpg…
19 Apr 2011, 08:44
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and Jonas, and Thecla, and Chelle, and Nicky De Vore....…
19 Apr 2011, 02:36
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It may very well have been, but I've slept since I wrote it.…
18 Apr 2011, 01:07
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Dude, he's the pope-king of the world and there's war on. Anything could come up at any time. Not that we know for sure this is his first draft, it could easily be one page among t…
17 Apr 2011, 22:21
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[...] We do know that various office functions are still being expected of Sev as he writes. Time passes, Dr Talos comes and goes. Sev could as easily gone a final weekend trip, m…
16 Apr 2011, 23:39
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He may be one of the Os if he's not a loa, or Os and Loas could be the same thing. I think any of the lower crew would be happy to take money in reutrn for gossiping about what …
07 Apr 2011, 18:06
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I'm sorry, that was unworthy of me. I'm resigned to people's disdain of expected behavior but I feel sorely provoked for someone allegedly in a hurry to spend extra time and effo…
10 Mar 2011, 05:58
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Not disagreeing with your message, just wanted to point out that he served in the Army's Seventh Infantry Division rather than the Marines.…
09 Mar 2011, 06:31
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Skipping bathroom trips and not bothering to dress might help you get back on schedule.…
09 Mar 2011, 06:20
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Paypal may be sent to the address below.…
03 Mar 2011, 03:28
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hmm, not spoilery, so I'll just say that aside from the inherent Forever War premise in the promotion, I can't think of anything that has to be SFnally justified for things to pr…
03 Mar 2011, 03:20
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It's boy meets girl overall, with pirates and spies and a whodunnit as the obstacles to overcome. There's also almost a total lack of technical detail of any kind, and the SFnal…
02 Mar 2011, 19:01
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I brought this up last year, particularly with Typhon failing to correct Sev on Autarch instead of Monarch. However, given the vast numbers of speaking and listening devices app…
20 Feb 2011, 04:47
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Could you give me a Portuguese example? En Espan~ol, "ahora" means now, and "presente" means here. This is also the case in literal English; "the present" is short for "the prese…
20 Feb 2011, 04:35
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That's what I mean; the Latin mottoes become traditional inscriptions for sundials and are copied (with errors creeping in) on new sundials in ages yet to come, like the Roman nu…
20 Feb 2011, 04:24
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Isn't it fairly likely that some of the sundial mottoes are actually Latin, though?…
20 Feb 2011, 02:40
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Is it necessarily a single dead language? Perhaps Sev recorded the translations rather than the originals.…
20 Feb 2011, 02:34
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An artist specializes in submerged sculpture; you may find the images of his work in place reminiscent of the Solar Cycle. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/23t7DA/24flinching.com/wo…
10 Feb 2011, 12:08
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I was thinking there might be some kind of doublethink to the undines. The JACOB'S LADDER movie riffs on Eckhart: "You ever read Meister Eckhardt? . . . Eckhardt saw hell, too. Y…
10 Feb 2011, 05:39
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That's fine, for that maze and that level of metafictionality. I was wanting the monster that goes with the panels - of course, there's a *lot* of monsters that can come through …
10 Feb 2011, 05:23
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