Re: Power satellites was and the rest of you
At 12:04 Tuesday 04-03-14, Keith Henson wrote: [...] Time to displace fossil fuels is a bit over two decades from the start. Will probably take at least that long before second- and third-hand used electric vehicles get cheap enough for those who today cannot afford anything newer than that in a gasoline-powered vehicle to start being able to afford to replace their current vehicles that they have to have to get to work, school, the grocery store, the doctor, etc. It's also highly unlikely that things will change enough any sooner than that in most places in the US and elsewhere outside of a few densely-packed urban centers like NYC for most people to be able to do without individual powered transportation for those necessary trips: IOW, most places I've lived the bus or other public transportation is only good for going downtown in the morning and coming back in the evening after regular business hours, and not even that from many places where people live, and most people have too far to go or have disabilities or other health conditions which would prevent them from walking or riding a bicycle to/from work, even when it's not raining or other inclement weather, or their job requires them to arrive in a suit or other specified attire, looking and smelling fresh, and stay that way all day, and the business doesn't have and probably has no place to install locker rooms with showers. Then there are the ones who have to carry tools or samples or other bulky items with them, and pretty much everyone who has to bring groceries home or take kids to the doctor or multiple kids to multiple schools, music lessons, soccer practice, etc. . . . . . . ronn! :) An Active List Again? Maru ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
RE: Introducing Myself
AT LAST my messages from like 6 months ago when I joined the mailing list have materialized. Though I do wonder what took so long. I see references to messages that I know I have not gotten, so I think there's also something preventing my address from receiving some messages from this list. Who is the list manager? Hello. There are plenty of real names and plenty of ‘nyms here, so don’t be shy either way. “ES” or “zoon33” both seem reasonable enough - as long as you’re consistent or let the rest of us know your wishes who are we to argue? Hello! I hope my real name isn't showing! I cannot find any controls to make the email service stop doing that. I will go with E.S. for now. It’s been quiet recently but every now and again this place sputters into life… I doubt it’ll ever reach the volumes of The Old Days again (unless DB WRITES MORE UPLIFT BOOKS…) but there’s always room for discussion. Wouldn't that be nice! Heaven's Reach ended on gigantic cliffhangers, such as WILL HUMANITY GO EXTICT!? :p At one point, there was Between a Grok and a Hard Pace on the net. My fanfic set 100 years before Brightness Reef. A Qheuen challenges a G'Kek to a downhill race--and wins. Then for the sake of continued peace, it's all hushed up. Only worth being a fanfic when written. Vilyehm I think I read that once... the qheuen attached itself to a section of boo and used it as a giant wheel, right? ~E.S. ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
What are peeps reading lately?
Late last year when I wasn't feeling well and needed some lighter reading than The Lord of the Rings, I started the Dragonriders of Pern series. Now that I'm feeling better somehow I got sidetracked into very complicated math and trying to make the GURPS solar system simulator and GURPS Uplift alien generator even more complicated... by the way anyone know of a good source of free/public phase diagrams for compounds such as methane, ethane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, etc.? As in, a book that might be found at a library? ~E.S. Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:37:57 -0500 Subject: Re: I just picked up KSR's 2312 and Jack Campbell's The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knights (sequel series to the Lost Fleet series). Haven't started reading them. I was re-reading Sword of Shanarra as MTV is threatening a new series al a Game of Thrones. It's turning into a slog (seemed much better when I was a kid!) Damon. ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
RE: Uplift questions
Spoiler warning to anyone who hasn't read Heaven's Reach!! And that's Alvin, Mudfoot, and Huck on Harathrurptra. (Correct spelling anyone?) Mudfoot can become VERY important if Harathrumta (Sp?) has Rousit. In what way? By influencing Rousit in some way to be friendly to Clan Tymbrimi than their patrons are? I wouldn't hire Tytlal for my PR campaign, that's for sure. Does anybody remember the Rousit? Contacting Aliens didn't. (The above is subject, of course, to Dr. Brin actually making the Rousit clients of the Hoon. It wasn't that clear in Heaven's Reach.) Buh wait, that isn't canon? I assumed they were confirmed Hoon clients. 2. Did we ever find out why Gillian wanted a herd of Glavers? They speak to hydrogen breathers, IIRC. Reading Contacting Aliens cleared that one up for me. Though I don't recall any glavers sitting in on her interview with the Transcendent being... then again maybe a few were sitting in a corner wordlessly chewing their cud or whatever glavers do. (It would also have made it possible for Dwer to take a few back to Jijo, but I doubt David Brin would make things so narratively easy for Jijo.) Oops, that comment of mine was about red rings, not glavers. But seriously, you'd think Lark would remember Asx's request to take the original red ring to the Sages, and try to get somebody to take some. And Alvin could use the bio-life preservers in his sailing business. Ahah yeah! Hoon can't swim so they might find those traeki scuba-gear rings handy. But then traeki were basically written as biological Swiss-army-knives for nearly every need... to the extent of producing the enzymes that make it possible for humans and maybe others to exist on Jijo without dying of malnutrition. It makes me wonder how the Path of Redemption folks plan on replacing that function once traeki are mindless dirt-eaters. ~E.S. ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
RE: Introducing Myself
That would be me. Don't know why I didn't see any notices about the held mail until the other day. Odd. Nick "Ellen S." zoo...@hotmail.com wrote:AT LAST my messages from like 6 months ago when I joined the mailing list have materialized. Though I do wonder what took so long. I see references to messages that I know I have not gotten, so I think there's also something preventing my address from receiving some messages from this list. Who is the list manager? > Hello. There are plenty of real names and plenty of ‘nyms > here, so don’t be shy either way. “ES” or “zoon33” both > seem reasonable enough - as long as you’re consistent or > let the rest of us know your wishes who are we to argue? Hello! I hope my real name isn't showing! I cannot find any controls to make the email service stop doing that. I will go with E.S. for now. > It’s been quiet recently but every now and again this place > sputters into life… I doubt it’ll ever reach the volumes of > The Old Days again (unless DB WRITES MORE UPLIFT BOOKS…) but > there’s always room for discussion. Wouldn't that be nice! Heaven's Reach ended on gigantic cliffhangers, such as WILL HUMANITY GO EXTICT!? :p > At one point, there was "Between a Grok and a Hard Pace" on the net. > My fanfic set 100 years before Brightness Reef. A Qheuen challenges > a G'Kek to a downhill race--and wins. Then for the sake of continued > peace, it's all hushed up. > > Only worth being a fanfic when written. > > Vilyehm I think I read that once... the qheuen attached itself to a section of boo and used it as a giant wheel, right? ~E.S. ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
