Space Time Stories » Announcements http://www.spacetimestories.com Space and Time Travel Stories. A Science Fiction Blog By Sean O'Brien Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:24:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 A Canticle for Leibowitz http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/a-canticle-for-leibowitz/ http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/a-canticle-for-leibowitz/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:34:58 +0000 Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=676 Found a free online set of mp3 recordings of a dramatization of Walter Miller’s “A Canticle for Leibowitz”.  I’m about 1/4 of the way into it, the dramatization is good although at a few points it’s difficult to hear what is being said.  The chant and hymns are excellent.

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Vernor Vinge is a professor at San Diego State University famous for his thoughts and fiction surrounding the upcoming singularity.

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I wonder if we will ever learn that there are billions of Matrioshka Brains in the Milky Way, most of them far from the galactic center.  We currently call them dark matter.

If I had my choice of where to live in the Milky Way I would want to be as far as possible from the monster black hole at its center.

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I predict 2 types of responses:  pathological rejection and people who equate this with sentient space faring beings.

Frankly I think panspermia is the only theory of evolution which makes much sense.  Integrate evolution over 10 billion planets and 10 billion years and you get believable statistics.

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After 10 year:  the return of Slippery Jim DiGriz.  Thanks very much to Harry Harrison.

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]]> http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/the-stainless-steel-rat-returns/feed/ 0 Buckyballs in Space http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/buckyballs-in-space/ http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/buckyballs-in-space/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:24:27 +0000 Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=604 Well it’s not scifi but it’s still great. As we predicted in 1985,

buckyballs have been found in outer space.

It’s not a big surprise, but it’s a great 25th anniversary present. Here are the data:

IR spectra of buckyballs in space

In 1986 Rick Smalley asked me if I thought that c60 could be the primordial nucleation site for planetary coalescence. He theorized that c60 could survive the extreme UV of the interstellar environment. No other molecule could survive to become a nucleation site.

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]]> http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/buckyballs-in-space/feed/ 0 Godspeed James P Hogan http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/godspeed-james-p-hogan/ http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/godspeed-james-p-hogan/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:06:47 +0000 Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=599 You meant a lot to me.  Inherit the Stars was one of the first serious scifi books I read as a teenager.  The discovery of a 50,000 year old dead astronaut on the moon was a powerful idea.  I also very much liked your book about prejudice in the scientific community: Kicking the Sacred Cow.

I hope you get a flyby of Ganymede.  You deserve it.

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From their announcement:   At our Celebrating Science 2010 Family Science Faire, you will have the opportunity to meet SETI Institute scientists and discover what the future holds for SETI and astrobiology. Learn about the SETI Institute’s pioneering exploration of life, our solar system, and beyond, including the search for signals from other civilizations.

Your opportunity for hands-on science! We will have fun, interactive activities for youth aged 8-15. They will be able to sign up on a first-come, first-serve basis for educational science-based activities. We will also have fun and creative activities for our younger up-and-coming scientists.

Meet the father of SETI and author of the Drake Equation, Dr. Frank Drake. Visit the gift shop for a Drake Equation t-shirt and ask Dr. Drake himself to sign it!

Hear Seth Shostak speak at 2:45 on “Why Your Grandkids Will Live in Space.” Dr. Shostak will be available to autograph his latest book, Confessions of an Alien Hunter.

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