It is interesting that so many of the words we use now are derived from the science fiction of a time when space travel was rare or non-existent at all. I have often wondered where those ideas came from, how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I really do love the worlds we live in. There are so many, and all of them different from every other. Whenever I get bored with one, I jump in my ship and check out another one in a few[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everybody knows that Alpha Centauri A has three habitable worlds, assuming variable values for habitability. But each of them has a moon that we’ve placed small colonies on, and there are four gas giants in the system with a total[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. As a kid I spent the summers wearing swimming trunks. No shoes, no shirt, no problem as the old saying goes. And during winter, I wore enough furs to make an Eskimo jealous. They don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The defense grids of our warships have always been built of many systems. Devoted to keeping our ships alive against enemy attack, they include electronic warfare grids, active point defense grids, passive stealth grids, and more. When the Peloran gave[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of us are travelers of some kind. We do a lot of bounty hunting, bringing criminals to justice and the like. Some of us join the Marshal or Ranger programs, becoming official peace officers. Some even become local Sheriffs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With Contact, the Peloran gave us examples of many new technologies. Some made our warships better. But the Peloran have amazing knowledge of the life sciences and many of these have civilian applications. We engineered new plants for New Antarctica,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Science fiction had a profound impact on the many terms we use now. The hyperspace/subspace argument, which still goes on, is far from the only “debate” we had. When the Peloran gave us the basic secrets of gravitic tech, we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are so few of us. Amongst the many tens of billions of humanity, we are thousands. We could have stepped out of normal society and kept to ourselves. Let the rest of the worlds live or die on their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The world we named New Antarctica was the coldest nominally-habitable world in the Alpha Centauri binary system when we discovered them. We never placed anything more than scientific outposts in the early decades of our space exploration as interstellar colony[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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