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Owlvark's Stump: Novel
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Monday, March 23, 2015. Interestingly, William Gibson's famous SciFi story Neuromancer. Was commissioned, and destined to be straight-to-paperback. It was his first novel and he says he was terrified while writing it, to the extent that he assumed it would be ignored on release. This attitude, however, gave him a kind a freedom and he decided to write for imagined readers in the future. Which could be the secret to how groundbreaking it would actually be. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Owlvark's Stump: May 2014
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Friday, May 2, 2014. The brains behind the greatest 3D games. Of all time have been assembled. The nebulous research phase has moved on to concrete engineering. The funding is backed by the richest of website companies. Finally, a mass-produced device for total immersion is in sight. Don't worry Mr Gibson. It will be alright this time. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Owlvark's Stump: March 2014
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Monday, March 31, 2014. As people are finally taking Space Elevators seriously, it looks like this company. Specializes in researching other crazy-until-we-build-them ideas. Highlights include: a 2001-alike space hotel, transparent pyramidal pod cities, a hexagonal robot-built moon base, 30km diameter artificial oases, and, most crazy of all, a ring of solar cells around the moon. That transmit power to the Earth. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Owlvark's Stump: Other ideas
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Monday, March 31, 2014. As people are finally taking Space Elevators seriously, it looks like this company. Specializes in researching other crazy-until-we-build-them ideas. Highlights include: a 2001-alike space hotel, transparent pyramidal pod cities, a hexagonal robot-built moon base, 30km diameter artificial oases, and, most crazy of all, a ring of solar cells around the moon. That transmit power to the Earth. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Owlvark's Stump: February 2014
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Monday, February 3, 2014. Six more weeks of winter it shall be.". Punxsutawney Phil, occasional meteorologist. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Owlvark's Stump: July 2014
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014. My favourite non-Boosh Zooniverse has relaunched: Asteroid Zoo. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Owlvark's Stump: February 2015
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Monday, February 2, 2015. Six More Weeks of Winter. Punxsutawney Phil, Weather Rodent. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Owlvark's Stump: Virtually Real
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Friday, May 2, 2014. The brains behind the greatest 3D games. Of all time have been assembled. The nebulous research phase has moved on to concrete engineering. The funding is backed by the richest of website companies. Finally, a mass-produced device for total immersion is in sight. Don't worry Mr Gibson. It will be alright this time. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Owlvark's Stump: December 2013
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Sunday, December 1, 2013. Years ago, I saw a documentary by artist David Hockney that argued that the Dutch Masters achieved their extraordinary photo-realism with aid from secret lens-based devices. Now a new film. Is being released with a similar theory, in which an American inventor with no art training attempts to recreate a Vermeer painting. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Owlvark's Stump: January 2014
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Monday, January 20, 2014. Recently I found a nice round-up of the state of building a tower into orbit. The only sane way to get stuff up there. Here are a few highlights:. A space elevator could be built on the Moon using existing materials. Has been resurrected and is working on this right now. Carbon nanotubes could be the "diamond thread" that A C Clarke described in his novels. International Academy of Astronautics. Says that a space elevator "seems feasible". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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