Notices by Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)

@cstross

Which is a polite and gentlemanly way of telling me "don't try to teach your grandmother how to suck eggs". I'll be quiet now.

@FredKiesche

I wonder if that was the inspiration for the Symbs in John Varley's The Ophiuchi Hotline?

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=2228

@cstross

I'm no expert, but it seems to me that libertarianism is severely at odds with what the main character of Piper's Space Viking was advocating. Especially the bit about the ruling class should be allowed to kill commoners to maintain public order.

More depressing prophetic scifi reading. From Space Viking by H. Beam Piper (1962)

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/origin-supernova-94-years/

@SFRuminations

Perhaps Disulfiram? (1930s)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfiram

Hard science fiction writers are annoyed that travel times in the solar system using realistic rocket propulsion are measured in years.

Hollister David points out that more exciting transit times can be found within the moon systems of Jupiter and Saturn. They are practically miniature solar systems.

http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2013/01/mini-solar-systems.html?m=1

Chinese satellite launch showers hapless Chinese town with hypergolic nitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine.

Such fun getting sprayed with explosive cancer.

https://spacenews.com/china-launches-sino-french-astrophysics-satellite-debris-falls-over-populated-area/

https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-starliner-stuck-space-station-more-leaks

@kaia

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/telecommunication.php#securemail

@johncarlosbaez

Somebody is going to use that plot twist in the next zombie movie.

Holy fucking shit...

I can see this from my back yard

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/baltimore-bridge-collapse-03-26-24-intl-hnk/h_1652f6b8572b04068c0408df86d22076

Don't mind me. I'm trying to support the artist on the left.

@jeffowski

I didn't see "(reminds me of West Side Story how they are lined up behind the leader)"

@jeffowski

Ah, I clicked the alt-text, and it just gave me the web address of the image

@jeffowski

This photo makes me hear the title sequence of "West Side Story". With snapping fingers.

@TomMarcinko @FredKiesche @CTD

The slide rule in the starship
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computing--Slide_Rules

#Blender art by CinnabarSeven

Weapon platform is carrying a rail gun

https://linktr.ee/cinnabarseven

Apple TV's production of Foundation takes major liberties with Asimov's original story.

Having said that, I personally feel that the title sequence does successfully capture the *feel* of the original trilogy.

#Foundation #IsaacAsimov

The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel

https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month