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| There once was a place of cold forbidding, a place man was never welcome to. It belonged to another race, one inimical to all man valued. As a result, it was a doomed place
I suppose the Bugs liked it. With two moons I suppose it could have been pretty, but after the war, not so much. We named it Klendathu. I don't know what the Bugs called it. I hope we've exterminated them. God knows they came close to exterminating us.
We have pickets all around the star, looking for communications drones or supply ships from their colonies. Every time one is found, it's origin is traced and we mount another extermination campaign. It's been three years since the last one. We've become very good at it.
Klendathu still orbits it's blue star, a sterile and mute witness to the First Interstellar War. As I look upon it's ruins, the cratered and slagged surface, poisoned for millenia - a stark statement to the stars, I brood, wondering if our contacts with others will always end thus.
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| | I ran across this book online and ordered it, but I was curious if anyone here had read it already. The premise is that it's like Choose Your Own Adventure but set in the Twenty Universes of Heinlein's Glory Road. Thoughts? | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I'm curious about what Heinlein novel or story you'd most like to see on the big screen.
Who would you like to see as a director?
Any specific actors in mind?
I'm not the only one who thinks about this, am I? :) | | comments: 41 comments or Leave a comment |
| NASA Science Update to Discuss Mars Atmosphere Activity
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 15, to discuss analysis of the Martian atmosphere that raises the possibility of life or geologic activity. The briefing will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., S.W., Washington, and carried live on NASA Television.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jan/HQ_M09-005_Mars_Update.html | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Hey.
On Chuck tonight in the pre-credits sequence, Chuck intercepts a message to Jill that mentions an "Uncle Tobias"--that made me immediately remember the Epilogue from Number of the Beast in which Jubal begins writing/dictating a comedy novel with the sentence "Uncle Tobias we kept in a bucket."
Dunno if it was intentional on the part of Chuck's writers or just coincidental. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| There are several groups both on LJ and on the web in general that are devoted to the discussion of the Zombie apocalypse or (The End Of Life As We Know It). These groups attract much discussion about survival and behavior under stress and preparedness in general.
With that in mind do you think that Zombies are stobor?*
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_in_the_Sky
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| I live in Luna County, NM, which due to its bordering Mexico is fast becoming a police state. I'd love to fly the Luna Free State flag over my house... does anyone understand the design well enough to make a nice one? And how much would Betsy Ross Garcia O'Kelly charge to make me one? One person's (rather crude) mock-up is crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fic_mihm.html
Thanks, Loonies!
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| | Here's to a new member in the waternest ever attempting to Grok the mysteries of the universe. Glad to see I'm not the only one. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| I just came back from 7-Eleven via my neighborhood firehouse. Y'all might think of doing the same.
I went to the 7-Eleven because it happens to be across the street from the firehouse, but you could go to any grocery or convenience store nearby. I dropped about 26 bucks on one of every flavor of Gatorade in the store and took them across the street to give to the firefighters.
It's ninety-something degrees here in St. Louis today. Y'know how great a sweet, cold drink feels after a time in the sun on a day like this? Think how even more so it would be for those men and women after responding to a call, on a day like this.
For me it's personal. My dad's parents and my great-grandfather bought a house in this neighborhood in the 1940s. My dad and uncle grew up here. My brother and sister and I grew up here. I moved back to this neighborhood and am raising my own sons here. Firefighters from this station have been standing watch over members of my family through five generations and sixty-plus years.
I hope it can be personal for you, too. Where we run away from, they run toward. What we run out of, they run into. And here in St. Louis, they don't do it for much.
So I bought 'em a buncha bottles of Gatorade on a hot summer's day. Can I get you to do likewise for the men and women who stand watch over your home? | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Please let me know if I'm mixing up my references, but IIRC Mannie takes his data with him in solid-state chips that he stashes in his false limb (arm?).
The current state of computer storage seems to be propelling us in the logical direction of solid-state storage. Next time you're at a Best Buy immagine our hero sliding a spare SDHC or USB-key into the gaps between in his artifical limb's servos.
Another RAH technological prediction come true? It seems logical and rather obvious now, but in 1968 tape wheels were being phased out by huge hard disk platters and permanently programmable ROM was only 10 years old. It would be another 3 before programmable ROM chips could be erased, 10 years before the first RAM drive was made available, 23 years before the PCMCIA card provided some kind of portable memory expansion and 32 years before the USB-key made an EEPROM memory device the universal replacement for the mechanical floppy disk. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Does anyone know if there has been a study done of breakfasts in Heinlein's stories? He seems to have something of an obsession about breakfast. | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| I've started an LJ Community: milpagans for Pagan members of the military, their families, veterans and any other interested parties. Pagans of all peaceful paths and traditions, Pagan-Friendly, Pagan-Curious, and others are welcome.
I have no idea what I am doing with an LJ Community, so I expect a rocky start. Still, stop by, join the community, make a post, and provide me with some external validation. Thanks!
Clarification: Why post this here? Although RAH was likely not Pagan, he was definitely a supporter of the military. Further, Stranger in a Strange Land forms a basis for Church of All Worlds, a Pagan church and tradition. | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
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