Posted from 2 addresses as Jeff Wilson, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com, Jeffery Wilson
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I don;t know about require; sensors can have ranges and their data may be used to infer details beyond those. An ancient but still functional satllite in orbit above the south po…
10 Oct 2011, 17:29
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If Typhon was a clone to begin with, and could transfer his consciousness at will, why bother with the head graft? Just possess another clone brother. Consequently, I believe t…
10 Oct 2011, 07:30
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If it did, it may be due to business falling off after Sev outlaws dueling.…
23 Sep 2011, 03:42
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or er write the new books I guess. sorry, still decompressing from a 5 week lit crit bootcamp…
11 Aug 2011, 15:45
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But who will spin the looms in the interim?…
11 Aug 2011, 15:36
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"it also seemed definitely non-benignly tyrannical at the top distribution level." Remember folks, top posting and bulk-quoting not only makes the baby Theoanthropos cry, it hel…
07 Aug 2011, 19:38
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Er, how is _Niven_ especially sexist? There was a story where a woman gets terribly experimented on and forcibly bred by a Kzin, but that was by Donald Kingsbury, not Niven.…
07 Aug 2011, 13:31
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RINGWORLD never really struck me as that great a book, but how is it especially sexist for its time?…
07 Aug 2011, 13:26
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This. Mohammed Vance in Daniel Keys Moran's THE LONG RUN and other Continuing Time Books is in fact a mostly decent, honorable person who sincerely believes in his democraticall…
06 Aug 2011, 19:35
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Could you say more about why Elric is repulsive? I mean, I know he's an antihero in the literal sense, intentionally being written to have opposite attributes to Conan, for insta…
06 Aug 2011, 19:14
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Excuse me; "on the final joint of the digit in question"…
20 Jun 2011, 16:02
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Zooming in with a photo editor shows a shiny nail on the final digit. Which makes it whole, or an intentional fake prosthetic, like James Doohan used on occasion.…
20 Jun 2011, 16:01
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But "on" the other hand.... http://www.treknicalities.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/scotty_sans_finger.jpg…
18 Jun 2011, 07:27
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Left hand was fully present: http://www.historycentral.com/bio/people/Tolkien.html Same for the right: http://curiouspresbyterian.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/j-r-r-tolkien-news-no…
18 Jun 2011, 00:58
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I'm not sure what you mean here. People educated in actual science from the first half of the 20th century later are aware that knowledge of the physical world is limited by the …
09 Jun 2011, 05:33
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There's a fifth set, the mirrored portion of Hall of Meaning at the House Absolute where Domnina and Thecla were playing. This may or may not be the first place Domnina saw the f…
09 Jun 2011, 04:54
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If you join the collective, instead of e-mailing you directly, the invites pile up in your inbox at LinkedIn instead of coming straight to your e-mail address. LinkedIn itself wi…
09 Jun 2011, 00:31
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"Dave's not here."…
08 Jun 2011, 01:57
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I'm assuming acceleration remains constant wrt internal Whorl time, on the entirely unfounded assumption that the Whorl's acceration is based on some internal principle. I suppos…
02 Jun 2011, 19:53
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Typhon says the sun began to dim during his reign and that the luminosity dropped by 7 parts in 1000 while he was on Urth. That and a lack of other changes discussed suggests tha…
02 Jun 2011, 19:43
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I think you are off by a factor of 5 or so. 300,000 km/sec is 300,000,000 m/sec /1 m/sec/sec is 300,000,000 sec /60 for 5,000,000 min /60 for 83,333 hr /24 for 3472 days /365…
02 Jun 2011, 19:29
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It really doesn't work that way; that is, the _speed_ of light doesn't particularly change in Vinge's book, but the radical speculative means of transcending it do. Literal obser…
01 Jun 2011, 19:54
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Is there anyone here who is still puzzled as to how Sev was able to withold the rising sun, then restore it? It wasn't obvious to me before, but it is obvious in retrospect, the …
31 May 2011, 21:44
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This is the reason why I asked about evidence that the Whorl was all Typhon's doing some time ago. If some salvageable stellar technology was involved, that could explain a lot a…
31 May 2011, 15:58
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And this description is to be found where?…
31 May 2011, 00:37
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Right on! Science fiction is so called because it appeals to the authority of science to suspend disbelief. However, appeals to authority aren't scientific, so science fiction in…
30 May 2011, 21:39
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I mean, where is the black hole described in BotNS? How is it characterized sufficiently to make those proceeding inferences? Something on the order of an earth-mass black hole w…
30 May 2011, 21:32
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Where is it described?…
30 May 2011, 02:56
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I'm also sure that Wolfe read Hakwing in the 70's, because Hawking discovered that small black holes evaporate in 1974, disappearing in a final burst of radiation. They could be …
29 May 2011, 22:50
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This is not obvious to me. Details of shadows' boundaries and of dawn and dusk (the same thing, since they are the boundaries of the earth's shadow) are much as they are today. T…
29 May 2011, 09:51
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It might be one or the other but not both; the Templars and the Hospitallers were rival orders.…
27 May 2011, 19:46
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Ahem. Let us not speak of our former "radical" list member.…
27 May 2011, 03:39
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Right on - "autarch" is understood to mean the ruler in charge of a nation - so it gets used for any number of nation rulers, who weren't necessarily THE Autarch, or called thems…
26 May 2011, 17:34
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We're like Voltaire's demons, if you are wedded to received wisdom then of course we're mocking bastards. But if you are willing to seek enlightenment, then we're really Socratic…
26 May 2011, 17:17
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Sev sees that the old fart has died before he got around to telling him.…
25 May 2011, 15:57
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Only in that he has to be superficially Christlike to fool the masses.…
25 May 2011, 15:53
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Unfortunately, they hide some pages, even pages they let you see earlier.…
24 May 2011, 18:11
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How do we know Casdoe is a Kazz, then? I thought it was Kass-Dough.…
24 May 2011, 15:50
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I was thinking Canadian FB rules with 12 man teams; Mt Typhon is practically synonymous with Montreal, after all. p.s. My last trip to the A&M campus was very disappointing in a…
23 May 2011, 03:06
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I first saw it in the original LEXICON URTHUS. I work with some former Soviet residence professors, I'll try to catch one and ask.…
22 May 2011, 18:18
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There has to be some sort of connection to account for the brilliant blue glow. It might be just the relic of blood on the thorn that was encased in the gem, but that doesn't exp…
22 May 2011, 17:12
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I'd pay good money to see that football game.…
22 May 2011, 17:00
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I read BOTNS with having read Wolfe before, but it was just after I had exhausted the last of the conventional Golden Age SF authors' works in the local library, including a lot …
22 May 2011, 00:20
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I am working from what seems to be the scenario best supported by the textev and criticism that says the general scheme of the BOTNS is a combination of older SF tropes "updated"…
21 May 2011, 12:29
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I'm not sure what you mean by undetectable gravitational radiation; the sun and the moon have gravitation, and they make very detectable tides upon the earth. The mass that ancho…
21 May 2011, 00:00
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b) The global cooling of Sev's time could have rendered Tibet/Nepal/etc an iced-over hinterland with too little oxygen even for genetic acclimation by "real" people. But I would …
20 May 2011, 02:37
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b) The global cooling of Sev's time could have rendered Tibet/Nepal/etc an iced-over hinterland with too little oxygen even for genetic acclimation by "real" people. But I would …
20 May 2011, 02:37
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Let me try to serve it up in your terms: Peter is the rock on which the Lord's house is built, right? All other ground is shifting sand? How then would those fare whose presume t…
20 May 2011, 02:36
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c) The selection of the Himalayas was just for illustration of the variety of environments technically on land. I don't have any reason to think that the oceans would slop up tha…
18 May 2011, 22:49
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No more so than a volcanic explosion or a hurricane eliminating land-bound monstrosities. Water has 200 times the density of air, so you need much less of a sustained change in t…
18 May 2011, 02:51
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