C.J. Moseley's Blog, page 158
May 15, 2014
gameraboy:
chris foss – breaker’s yard by Myriac Acia on…
May 14, 2014
One AU – some explosion
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One Au-some explosion and infographic[/caption]The image comes from http://bit.ly/OneAu-someExplosion (click the image for a link there) and was created for the site that promotes itself at the bottom of the pic, but I won't hold that against them.
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Posted from my Phone so...
May 13, 2014
psychofactz:
More Facts on Psychofacts :)
OMG I’m a…
OMG I’m a procrastinating, bipolar, time-traveller prone to profound bouts of deeply disturbing, dark, suicidal and melodramatic thoughts, interspersed with cosmic joker events and a desire to enlarge my farming estate, while tear in the system in fighting trousers. Either that or I have eclectic tastes… and a VERY long iPhone playlist.
May 12, 2014
futurist-foresight:
A very innovative idea to turn salt water…
A very innovative idea to turn salt water into potable water.
The Disrupteneur of the day award goes to Gabriele Diamanti. This is beautiful story
GABRIELE DIAMANTI HOPES TO SEE LOCAL CRAFTSMEN ALL OVER THE WORLD ADAPT HIS DESIGN.
“Projects ‘for the 90%’ mostly fall somewhere between two extremes: charity and business,” designer Gabriele Diamanti tells Co.Design. “Neither was my inspiration!” Instead, spurred on by his own extensive travel and friends’ involvement in NGOs, he developed a fascination with global water scarcity as a graduate student at Milan Polytechnic in 2005; he recently decided to pursue his interest again and the result is Eliodomestico, an open-source variation on a solar still.
It functions by filling the black boiler with salty sea water in the morning, then tightening the cap. As the temperature and pressure grows, steam is forced downwards through a connection pipe and collects in the lid, which acts as a condenser, turning the steam into fresh water. Once Diamanti established the fundamentals were sound, he experimented with a series of concepts for the aesthetic of the object. “My goal was to design something friendly and recognizable for the users,” he explains. “The process developed quite naturally to determine the current shape; every detail is there for a reason, so the form, as well as production techniques, represent a compromise between technical and traditional.” Primary field studies in sub-Saharan Africa revealed the habit of carrying goods on the head—also a common practice in other areas around the world—and this was integrated into Eliodomestico’s plan. And while solar stills aren’t a totally new concept, Diamanti says it’s rare to find them in a domestic context rather than in missions or hospitals, or as large plants overseen by qualified personnel that serve entire communities. “I tried to make something for a real household that could be operated directly by the families,” he says.
The project recently won a Core77 Design Award for Social Impact; already, Diamanti has received international feedback, and hopes to see locals adapt and modify the design to take advantage of their own readily available materials and native environments. “The idea is that instructions for the project can be delivered to craftsmen” with the help of NGOs, he says, then a micro-credit program could be established to finance small-scale start-ups specializing in production. “So the NGO is the spark, micro-credit is the fuse, the local craftsmen are the bomb!”
About time too…
May 11, 2014
scificity:
Nerdgasmhttp://scificity.tumblr.com
Well it’s…
Nerdgasm
http://scificity.tumblr.com
Well it’s either that or an expensive light system and detachable license plate…
May 10, 2014
Introducing Fiona
Fiona is a Talbot, which means she's from an Alchemically created race of dog-headed people. She's a bit of a poster girl for The Theriocephalic League, a political group that fights for equal rights for the animal-headed humans, as she's the first Theriocephalic Detective Sergeant in the country.
So I went to Wikipedia and found a pic of a Gordon-Setter (you see, it's in her name) and got creative with an old stock photo that I honestly can't remember where it came from of a WPC (not from the eighties the tie is wrong and I don't think the rank insignia are even close) and mushed the two together with my phone, added a couple of filters and voilà:
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[/caption] Not bad as a first go I'd say. But I think I might have to pay for the right photo of a female DS in 1980s police uniform.
As for the dog head, well that might actually have to be staged to get it perfect...
Anyway let me know what you think.
Posted from my Phone so...
Ironmaster Session 9/5/14
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[/caption] Having perfected a limited form of cold fusion and having worked out how to get machines to replicate Trodding (with the Trod Train and Trod Drive for ships) the players have decided that they are going to form the Free Neptune Colonies, free from the Covenant and the Black-law, beyond the reach of the Crown.
To this end, and to make things nice and legal they decided that they needed one of the Luna Independent Colonies to sponsor their expedition. The Independent Luna Colonies are little more than some cave farmers who are behind on their taxes, but by a quirk in the Colonial laws are able to claim independence from the Crown in their Mining and Mineral rights.
It also represents an easy test run for the untested Trod drive. Annie arranges her case load so that she can take a week to go to the moon. And with Jack at the controls they set off. Jack used his Seer abilities to look along the flight path, and apart from a single Tesla ship ("The Aquilla") and the wireless beacon at the end of the shipping lane it all looked clear. So he engaged the Trod drive.
They were expecting instantaneous travel, and sorry of got it, but the time spent Trodding was actually felt on board the ship, with Jack having to negotiate the ship along the wormhole the drive created.
Mercurio took this opportunity to try and throw a wireless beacon overboard but it caught on the enhanced shields that they use to capture and hold the atmosphere around the ship.
Then Jack noticed the oncoming ship and had to throw the ship into a tight spiral to try and avoid a direct collision with the ghost of the ship on the lane.
The ships shields touched, ripping a hole in their shields for a moment and causing them to vent some atmosphere and that wireless beacon.
The lost mass causes Jack to have to attempt a retuning of the drive in flight, which he just managed, but it also threw the ship forward through Trodspace beyond the end of that particular Trod. Jack had to use his own Trodding ability to bring the ship through the moon as the drive tried to kick them out about the hundred yards from the surface on the dark side. They had passed completely through the moon.
Once they clear the moon's radio shadow they here the news from the stricken Aquilla, the Captain believes that they have been struck by space lightning as their shields seemed to unzip around the ship almost instantly.
Darby Interplanetary ships mounted a rescue mission from Earth while the Trod ship slunk into Luna dock a little sheepishly, and Jack vowed to leave the Trod and sail around any other ships in future. SMS Technologies on Earth though (in the form of Saint-Clare) took advantage to buy a load of Tesla Stock (and managed to stabilise the price of the same at the same time). Starting rumours that they had already developed a new shield design that was proud against Space lightning.
Now on the moon they held a meeting for the Independent farmers, explaining that they were willing to give the farmers quite a lot of money and legal help to get them fully recognised as an independent trading colony, in exchange for a few signatures on some paperwork. However, Annie uses her Doom-weaving to try and find the future "King of the moon", but it's not one of the farmers. Jack takes her to one of Luna cities many bars where she meets the hostess Tallulah. Tallulah knows every customer by name, and by business and asks them each how things are. Annie realises that this is the person she needs. She notes the lone star flag behind the bar. Tallulah is a Texan, they've tried to claim independence on no less than six times. So Annie had a long chat with Tallulah.
Tallulah is amenable, but points out that if some of the farmers form a truly independent colony, then the rest of the Loonies would sign up to it immediately, and the Crown would have to immediately intervene. She suggests that numbers be limited for the time being, but that sooner or later the Free Neptune Colonies that they're talking about creating will have to be relied on to provide ships and weapons to help defend the Luna Independents from the Crown and the Royal Navy.
Which the party agreed to. Tallulah also requested that SMS Technologies have them access to whatever technology they were planning on using to dig tunnels out on the moon's of Neptune as the biggest problem the Indie farmers had was that the only transport between farms was in the form of ships and they couldn't spare the people to dig hundreds of miles of tunnels across the moon. Mercurio had to admit that he didn't actually have a plan for that yet, but giant Mechanimal moles ought to do the trick.
Annie decided then that Tallulah, (an untrained Mercari) required some training to make her more effective as a leader, and set about teaching her what ever magic/Mercari Doom-trading she could learn. Tallulah was a very adept pupil, but they both realised that she was going to need a Doom-weaver to help run the show.
So Annie worked with Jack to weave a Web over the whole of Luna city to try and lure anyone with a Doom weaving talent. No sooner had she completed the web she began to perceive everything that was taking place in the multilayered tunneled city.
She saved.
The save was carried by her weaving to every part of the city. That attracted the attention of a few people.
The Loonies are tough folks and have a high number of Mercari. Who just felt a huge save across the city. Some of them started copying the effect and one or two began to play Wyrd-Tarot. The Governor, a Solo, also felt the save and immediately contacted the Crown asking whether it was her that had saved. She said no, it wasn't her.
This brought the Governor to a paranoid state. Knowing that no registerred Doom-weaver was on the moon, apart from himself, and unable to locate another Solo he came to the conclusion that it must be an Infernalist who was deliberately stirring up the Loonies into being Mercari.
Then he felt the card play. He thought the Infernalist had created a Mage on the moon and Doom-wove that a party of his guards would go out into the city and retrieve the new born mage. Since no such Infernalist or mage-child existed by weaving so he created them (at least in part).
Annie felt a strange presence on her web, who sought her out to communicate. Asking her who she was and why she spun there. Whoever this thing was he was able to use the web as well as Annie could.
He introduced himself by saying that he hasn't existed before the miners have him the name Knocker Tom and he was very eager to do anything that might encourage belief in him and his friends in the tunnels. When he saw that the Governor had given the order for all the babies in Luna city to be brought to him he asked Annie if he should kill the Governor.
After some consideration Annie decided that it would probably be best, and Knocker Tom twisted one of the threads of a guard carrying a baby so that when he was given the order to shoot the babies by the Governor he instead turned and shot the Governor.
Annie introduced Tallulah to Knocker Tom and then they filled the papers for the Independent Farmers Colony (and paid the arrears on the taxes.).
When they arrived back on Earth Mercurio, Steven Smith and Joffrey Oberwulf began work redesigning the ship so that it could drop mass in Trodspace and retune automatically. As we finished, they were ready to send the first team out to Triton, which would consist of a number of cold - adapted "Mechani-'me's" as Mercurio had taken to calling his Mechanimal bodies. Along with some giant Mechanimal moles. They would use the moment when the Moon and the Earth were exactly aligned to travel out to Neptune, having carefully calculated how much mad would need to be dropped in Trodspace.
Great fun was had by all... Although I do now have to include Tallulah and the Luna Independent Farming Combine in the novel somewhere, but after all that is the point of having a game to develop the world background after all.
May 9, 2014
Reblog if you think fanfiction is a legitimate form of creative writing.
I do, but can’t do it myself.
And welcome any fan-fictioneers to play with any of my world’s, or characters - except Desi - she belongs to herself.
