Notices by GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)

@ranjit @adapalmer @rdm

My visual memory for books, their covers, and their contents is sometimes a bit too good.

It's possible that I misremembered *when* I last had the book, and it ended up with my ex in the Great Division of the SF Collection when we divorced almost 30 years ago. That's happened sometimes.

But I *think* I kept this book and reread it more recently than that!

@adapalmer @rdm Nobody was better than Bester at his best. "The Demolished Man," "The Stars My Destination," "The Pi Man," and one whose title I can't remember wherein the protagonist gets his consciousness mixed up with that of a murderous robot he owns. Just wonderful stuff.

@ranjit @adapalmer @rdm

There are definitely books in that state, especially in the living room, and sections of our bookshelves which are completely unorganized.

However the SF & F & horror section in the back den/office area is alphabetized by author, and I think it's been remaining in a fairly consistent state.

(Obsessive? Obsessive about books? Me?)

@adapalmer @rdm

I love that story! The little bits of the math and physics folklore about the absent-mindedness of the great mathematicians and physicists really tie the whole thing together.

I was trying to find it to pass to one of my kids, only to find I no longer had the Bester collection which it appears in. Books just seem to evaporate sometimes.

@rdm For a classic and fabulous golden age short story on this same theme, see Alfred Bester’s “The Men Who Murdered Mohammed.”

Time travel is generally regarded as impossible.

This is wrong.

Time travel has been invented at least a hundred times since the discovery of electricity.

So why don't more people know about it?

Well, it is because there is a problem with it. And everyone who discovers it falls for the same trap.

In order to travel in time, you need to be able to detach yourself from your local frame of reference. This is easier to achieve than you might think.

Once detached, you can travel back and forth in time freely, safely contained in whatever life support system you have devised. You can even snatch small items from the static times, and collect air and water - all without reconnecting to a local frame.

And that is the problem.

Reconnecting.

This requires much, much more energy than disconnecting. And the amount is exponentially affected by the amount you have travelled from your local frame.

Not how far you currently are from your local frame, but how far you travelled from it in total.

If you travel a single minute, you will need approximately twice the energy it took to disconnect. Two minutes, four times. Even if you travelled one forward and one back, that is still two minutes, and takes four times the energy. And it is proportional to the mass of the object being returned.

Most time travellers try for at least ten years for their first trip.

Exponential growth is a bastard of a thing if you are at the pointy end of it.

On the positive side, those of us who have made this mistake can communicate and interact. There are lots of us, really, but none of us have the energy required to get home. Or anywhere but where we are. Outside of time.

We have learned that we do not age out here. And we keep meeting new people. Maybe at some point we will find the people who can undo our mistakes. But it will probably take all the energy of our universe to do it.

Delivering this message took nearly the effective output of two megatons of TNT. And it consists of a handful of electrons. I'm sure you can do the math.

Please, do not follow us.

#SF #SFF #SciFi #TimeTravel #microfiction #microfic #tootfic #IAmWriting

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@xgebi What holiday is tomorrow and what is in a month?

Gerade True Lies geschaut.

Früher konnte man seine Gegner noch mit nem Telefon k.o. schlagen, heute wird das schwierig.

Musste ne Amazonrücksendung bei Agip abgeben und es gab an der ganzen Tankstelle keinen freien Platz der nicht an einer Tanksäule war oder die Zufahrt zu einer Tanksäule blockiert hat.

Rache für all die Male, wo ein Verbrenner eine der nur vier Ladesäulen in der Innenstadt blockiert hat :-P

(Wobei die hätten auch 20m weiter ins Parkhaus hätten fahren können.)

Our two-panel balcony solar hit 250kWh since being installed in July 11 weeks ago. An average of 3.25kWh per day harvested.

Just a few days ago we had a very sunny autumn day with a record 5.2kWh in a single day.

I’m very impressed. We’re probably not using all of it (our energy meter is not smart yet), but it should help with some of our consumption.

#solarpunk

@yatil We got 81 kWH on our 2-panel west-facing balcony solar since July 26th so around 9 weeks

I swear to gods some people think that Roko's Basilisk is going to wake up tomorrow, even though most of what has been counted as "advancement" for spicy autocomplete lately is that they've inserted hundreds of recursive layers of prompts to try to get it to stop doing the weird shit it tends to do.

"AI" can't do shit on its own. It's not a gods damned threat.

The threat is the people who will use AI to cause destruction, some knowingly & some "unknowingly" (in the sense that if you plug your ears & close your eyes, it's very hard for someone to warn you).

It's not the "AI".

"AI" is going to start being blamed for everything with a "well, what are ya gonna do?" attitude as if the most obvious answer in the world isn't right there.

What are we gonna do? Not use this AI! How about that?