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December 14, 2015
December 13, 2015
real-life-x-files:
Bob Lazar claims all alien tech is being…
Bob Lazar claims all alien tech is being reverse engineered at the S4 base in Nevada (and NOT Area 51). He also claimed the aliens gave us a new element, and while being laughed at for years the element 115 was confirmed to be discovered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsU3A9SFen4
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/new-super-heavy-element-115-confirmed-8C11015299
I used some of Bob Lazar’s stuff in the Paradox War… Especially the Ununpentium… In fact it’s a plot point in “An0ma1y” and “Cu1ture B0mb”.
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December 12, 2015
Original Character Survey 2016
Want to develop your character and help science at the same time? I’ve created a questionnaire that will ask you a ton of things about your OC. Once I get enough responses, I will use the data to find trends in how people create characters, and then make some cool graphs with it.
The survey has over 500 questions, almost all of which are optional if you don’t want to answer that many. It touches on everything, from your character’s appearance to their personality to their favorite color, and much more. All kinds of characters are welcome, whether they’re human or non-human, fantastical or realistic, anything goes. Characters from stories, roleplay characters, and characters without any story are all accounted for.
Content warning for references to violence, sexual assault, death, abuse, and every other nasty thing you can think of. All of it is in text form and there is no in-depth discussion of any of these topics, just questions about whether these things have happened to your character. Aside from some barbie-style nudity and cartoon people in swimsuits, all images are tame. There is a nsfw section for those who want to develop their character’s saucier side, but it is easy to skip over without having to see any of it.
Please reblog this to spread the word! The 2015 survey got over 5,000 responses. Let’s see if we can beat that this year.
Take the survey here!
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December 11, 2015
spazio-sf:
spiggot:
Science-fiction weapons
Le pistole laser…
Science-fiction weapons
Le pistole laser di Spazio; 1999 con la loro forma decisamente strana e particolare mi sono rimaste indelebilmente nella testa e nel cuore!
I really need to do a science in science-fiction on ray guns…
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spiggot:
Science-fiction weapons
Le pistole laser… appeared first on CJMoseley.com.
December 10, 2015
martinlkennedy:
Great
space colonies. From top to bottom:Angus…
Great
space colonies.From top to bottom:
Angus McKie - The High Frontier from the book The
Flights of Icarus (1977) by Donald Lehmkuhl with Martyn and Roger Dean.
Painting by Don Davis from his Space Colony series, 1975
The Three Island Space Colony by Roy Coombes from Harry Harrison’s book ‘Mechanismo’ (1978).
Space station Illustration by Russian artist Andrei Sokolov, 1981.
Space colony painting by Don Davis (1975)
Stanford Torus colony - Gerard O'Neill 1974
Space Station Interior for National Georgraphic magazine by Syd Mead from the book The Guide to Fantasy Art Techniques (1984)
This is what the future looked like when I was a kid, well that or nuclear apocalypse…
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December 9, 2015
scificity:
My current Wallpaper (though I made it A3…
My current Wallpaper (though I made it A3 originally)
Had this as a wall poster years ago…
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And Now For Something Completely Different
At least in the way of excuses… Yesterday was Mary Parry’s beautifully moving funeral and now […]
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December 8, 2015
scificity:
“Search your…
December 7, 2015
My WIP “Cyberpixies” uses some imagery a little like…
My WIP “Cyberpixies” uses some imagery a little like this.
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December 5, 2015
How scientist trick themselves (and how they can prevent it)b
A smashing editorial in Nature catalogs the many ways in which scientists end up tricking themselves into seeing evidence that isn’t there, resulting in publishing false positive. Many of these are familiar to people who follow behavioral economics (and readers of Predictably Irrational). But, significantly, the article advocates a series of evidence-supported techniques (some very simple, others a little more mostly/tricky) to counter them.
The problems with reproducibility in scientific results are now understood to be grave, and the scientific establishment is on the lookout for ways to improve the quality of results. Insisting on some or all of these methods as a condition of publication would significantly advance the field.
http://boingboing.net/2015/11/16/how-scientist-trick-themselves.html
Universities have been actively training wannabe scientists into being bad scientists for years. The structure of teaching and a pass/fail mentality encourages conformism of the worst kinds.
I’ve always felt each science needs a freshman lab that forces the freshman into doing an experiment that cannot produce the results they are expecting. Rather like Star Fleet’s Kobayashi-Maru they cannot pass unless they fail.
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