tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post2399328520212576852..comments2024-02-16T05:17:21.690-05:00Comments on No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Reloaded).: Family ValuesPeter Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06160557746794936786noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-81153538997926498282008-06-12T10:53:00.000-04:002008-06-12T10:53:00.000-04:00All those high energy cosmic rays, subatomic and a...All those high energy cosmic rays, subatomic and atomic particles start to hurt a helluva lot more too. Indeed, you'd need an enormous ship to stop that sort of thing from tearing you up inside.Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14154776123543786428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-15243150902835062092008-06-12T08:12:00.000-04:002008-06-12T08:12:00.000-04:00Interesting thought, if background rad can be blue...Interesting thought, if background rad can be blue shifted, what happens to the already bothersome energetic stuff like cosmic rays and those annoying electrons, protons, and occasional helium ion ???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-77767077866426776622008-06-11T15:04:00.000-04:002008-06-11T15:04:00.000-04:00Rifters in spaaaccceee!!!!!Sorry, couldn't resist....<I>Rifters</I> in spaaaccceee!!!!!<BR/><BR/>Sorry, couldn't resist.Strannikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16087783366276504178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-27925247773561841272008-06-11T12:34:00.000-04:002008-06-11T12:34:00.000-04:00PW is correct on the relativistic thing. Blue-shif...PW is correct on the relativistic thing. Blue-shifting turns soft background radio waves into roaring gamma radiation. It's like this: walking through a field of corn is irritating--all that corn in your face, but what about being dragged through it behind a 747? It'd hurt a lot more at 700 miles an hour. It's the same principle, all that nice background hiss dopplers up on itself and becomes a Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14154776123543786428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-11210374267947980322008-06-09T14:03:00.000-04:002008-06-09T14:03:00.000-04:00I like. You may also have hit on a strategy to be...I like. You may also have hit on a strategy to be more prolific as a writer. Limit most of the text to short dialogue and you can crank out a 400 page novel in weeks. Then get the publisher to print it on heavy stock paper and you have a thick hardcover than can be read in an afternoon.<BR/><BR/>It works for Robert B. Parker (the Spencer novels). His books are my only guilty pleasure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-34860287390673242932008-06-09T11:32:00.000-04:002008-06-09T11:32:00.000-04:00BTW, Razor... my understanding is that as you edge...BTW, Razor... my understanding is that as you edge up to relativistic speeds, simple blueshifting of cosmic background radiation is enough to melt anything known to man. Don't know how fast you'd have to be going for that to happen — 1g acceleration for a year or two is what I heard — but I figured mere lethality would be amped up way short of that point.<BR/><BR/>Haven't run any Peter Wattshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160557746794936786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-83461965032985222942008-06-09T11:24:00.000-04:002008-06-09T11:24:00.000-04:00"Squick?" "ಠ_ಠ"? "Literary"? Have you guys forgo..."Squick?" "ಠ_ಠ"? "<I>Literary</I>"? Have you guys forgotten who's writing this stuff?<BR/><BR/>Jeez. Give 'em a few paragraphs of flighty prose and they think you've turned into Ray Bradbury...Peter Wattshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160557746794936786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-85417776406626488252008-06-07T21:36:00.000-04:002008-06-07T21:36:00.000-04:00Hrmm.... getting somewhat literary in here....Hrmm.... getting somewhat literary in here....Nimishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02043225027933123525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-90445793906699106962008-06-06T16:00:00.000-04:002008-06-06T16:00:00.000-04:00"I'm sorry," I whisper, and lean forward, and lick...<I>"I'm sorry," I whisper, and lean forward, and lick the blood from his bruised and bloody lips.</I><BR/><BR/>ಠ_ಠARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09695255436104873832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740787063649889480.post-77188154806925023872008-06-05T22:47:00.000-04:002008-06-05T22:47:00.000-04:00Interesting. I will ask no more questions (the spi...Interesting. I will ask no more questions (the spice, after all, must flow) but it nonetheless comes as a surprise to me that they lack the medical facilities to handle radiation damage.<BR/><BR/>Also, in space, no one can hear you squick.razorsmilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17741327069258643030noreply@blogger.com