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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/ ... ins-text/1]Someplace for the Pellucidarans to hide in "plain sight"
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=674]The classic Mad mindset
(Actually, the squirrel-girls in Sequential Art are intriguing Mads, too. Individually, they're not much more intelligent than ordinary squirrels; put all four together and they're at least as smart as The Professor...) -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
Aieee! Archive Dive! Save yourselves!
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.'' -- James Nicoll  Foxboy Wrote:Aieee! Archive Dive! Save yourselves!Dude, if you haven't encountered Jollyjack and his art already, you need to. Ebony the Black Dragon http://ebony14.livejournal.com "Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
I was referring to the "I can't do anything useful; the archive beckons me!" effect.
 Good as his stuff is, I really don't need to spend 16 hours poring over his DA site and spending money willy-nilly on lewts.  ''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.'' -- James Nicoll robkelk Wrote:The classic Mad mindset.It gets better. "STOP BUILDING THINGS THAT EXPLODE!" BWAAAA-HA-HAAA!
Sorry, I was wrong.
THAT is the classic Mad mindset. (At least, it is as far as Kohran is concerned...) -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=76743]No. Just... no. (Unless the story is about how the Convention stops someone from doing this, in which case it's all right.)
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
"All these worlds are yours, except Enceladus. Attempt no soft drinks there."
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011 ... anets.html]Five more possible Earth-like habitable planets found
These things are everywhere... -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 robkelk Wrote:http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011 ... anets.html]Five more possible Earth-like habitable planets foundThe only reason we have not found much more Earth sized planets is that most detection methods cannot detect planets that small. Lot's of places to visit. 
And http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110203.html]here's a comparison image of the system those five Earth-like planets are in and our own system. It's only four years away at 500c... Somebody tell the Browncoats that we've found their ideal system.
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Ouch! Those are gonna be some awfully warm rocks out there.
Good place for harvesting lots of solar energy.
And if solid-state Handwavium takes a charge as well as emits one, well, then...
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. blackaeronaut Wrote:Ouch! Those are gonna be some awfully warm rocks out there.Well, the Browncoats do seem to like the desert worlds. Bob Schroeck Wrote:And if solid-state Handwavium takes a charge as well as emits one, well, then...Good point. Maybe StellviaCorp should set up a small installation on Mercury to turn liquid handwavium into power-emitting Solids. (Belldandy knows Noah goes through enough of them...) -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 Bob Schroeck Wrote:"All these worlds are yours, except Enceladus. Attempt no soft drinks there."Yeah. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _1856.html]That is rather strong carbonation... -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
I'm... just going to leave this here.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information "I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!" 
The search for a possible gas giant far out in the Oort cloud . Similar to the disproved Nemesis, hence the proposed name Tyche.
So far out, there is no pale blue dot..... just a distant yellow spark against the darkness, among a million other yellow sparks. Remarkable only because a nav' program registers it as $home. ________________________________ --m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
While browsing for cases for my upcoming computer project, I came upon this which I think of for either a Pulper's "Diesel Punk"
setup, or one of the first 191-er wavejobs in The South is Rising... ''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.'' -- James Nicoll
Terminology Nitpick: I don't think Zeerust/Art Deco Future quite qualifies as Diesel Punk. That said, I agree completely.
Well, Diesel Punk and Zeerust/Art Deco overlap like Steampunk and Victoriana do.
The *look* is shared, if not the attitude. It's like the difference between Bonanza and The Wild Wild West. ''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.'' -- James Nicoll
I think we'll have to agree to disagree: I think Art Deco has more in common with the "Gleaming Brass" variety of Steampunk than with the Diesel aesthetic. (I'm obviously ignoring sartorial fashions.)
Basically, Art Deco demands simplicity and elegance in all elements of design, from the most structurally-critical members to the ornamental shapes of the doorknobs. I think of the Diesel aesthetic as saying "screw elegance, and screw ornaments while you're at it. Does it work? Will it keep working? Will it be easy to fix?". The Loveless Spider-tanks are definitely Diesel Punk, despite possibly being steam-powered (in which case they're both Diesel Punk and Steampunk).
I look at it as more of a progression, or a gradient even. Victorian gives way to Steam Punk, which gives way to Art Deco, which gives way to Diesel Punk, which gives way to Postmodernism, which gives way to Cyber Punk. Thoughts?
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