Winchell Chung @nyrath@qoto.org
Star map and Atomic Rocket geek. The hard-science SF writer's tech support. The website is at
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
Refugee from the decline and fall of Google Plus.
In my long and misspent youth I did the artwork for various TTWG such as Ogre, WarpWar, GEV and such.
Joined Apr 2022
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Two weeks ago, Canadian #astronaut Dave Williams and I released our latest #book: "Why Am I Taller? What Happens to an Astronaut’s Body in Space."
It's a fun romp through #space and #spacemedicine with a literal space doctor (that would be Dave; I'm a space journalist.) I'd love to see our book appear in more #libraries, so do make a request at your local! Or, if you want a copy, do support your local bookstore. :)
https://ecwpress.com/products/why-am-i-taller-astronauts-body-in-space
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By the time Gaia DR4 is released in 2025 I expect that my virtual starship will have a full range of tools for exploring and presenting the data as a WebXR immersive experience.
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The galaxy orbits that we have computed and published in our "Action Dynamics of the Local Supercluster" paper are used in the amazing version 3 of the super popular "Star Size Comparison" video (the vortex version)... Another beautiful job by #morn1415 ! Check out also the featuring of Laniakea ;0)
video: https://youtu.be/KEHCCsFFIuY?t=393
research paper: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9525
press release by the University of Hawaii: http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=8967
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One thing I like about my new Instagram account is that you understand the subject at a glance.
I wish my Twitter (or Mastodon) homepage looked this nice.
@JVWest
I dunno, the name does suggest a gaming focus
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An interesting inclusion on the @RollsRoyce
stand was a graphic of their new gas cooled 1-5MWe microreactor, intended for land and marine applications, which is related to a BWXT-led prototype programme to deliver in 2024 1/2 https://bwxt.com/news/2022/06/09/BWXT-to-Build-First-Advanced-Microreactor-in-United-States
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RT @Rainmaker1973@twitter.com
Earth is the only planet in our Solar System where fire can exist. In fact, while we know about a lot of hot things existing in the universe, Earth is the only known celestial body that has enough oxygen to support a combustion
[read more: https://buff.ly/3pKKiMv]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1591748831405809664
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RT @TheSpaceshipper@twitter.com
For All Mankind (Season 2, 2021)
In case you don't know, I highly recommend this show. :)
#scifi #forallmankind #spaceships
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheSpaceshipper/status/1591340075022897154
In the 16th century some navys would take a ship, pack it to the scuppers with high explosives, then try to maneuver said ship into the enemy fleet and light the fuse. The hope was to destroy the entire fleet with one ship. A "hellburner".
It seems to me this would be an irresistible concept for a scifi space opera with interstellar battlefleets. I cannot recall any examples but I sure there must be some.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/hellburners-weapons-destruction.html
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3a/ I meant to write "GURPS Unnight" right up there.
I wrote GURPS Uplift, two editions, but it is out of print, alas.
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RT @arvalis@twitter.com
DeviantArt has decided your artwork there is fair game to be used in their new AI generator by default. You have to go to an obscure form to opt-out and requires 10 days to be reviewed. https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1591113199218487300
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A fast rising tidal disruption event from a candidate intermediate mass black hole: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00018 -> Death of a star reveals midsize black hole lurking in a dwarf galaxy: https://news.ucsc.edu/2022/11/dwarf-galaxy-tde.html
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@nyrath Oh, I wrote "Uplift" instead of "Unnight."
Alas, GURPS Uplift is unavailable, even as a PDF, due to licensing.
Many of the alien psychology and trait stuff ended up in later editions of GURPS Space!
@StefanEJones
The alien species psychology creation rules were particularly impressive.
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3/ GURPS Uplift is a very early science fiction adventure for the multi-setting role playing game system.
An early effort, for sure, but I have gotten nice comments about it through the years.
http://www.warehouse23.com/products/gurps-classic-space-unnight
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5/ GURPS Alphabet Arcane is another collection of 26 entries, with spells, artifacts, and such for fantasy RPG campaigns.
I'm really proud of some of these, particularly the Condor Boy items. CB was a legendary kid hero who walked to the edge of the earth with the help of special boons.
Zendo, game of inductive logic by Looney Labs
https://www.looneylabs.com/games/zendo
Design history of Zendo. A long read, but engrossing
https://www.koryheath.com/zendo/design-history/
Does the moon mean Mars is next?
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If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.
So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser
Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.
Star map and Atomic Rocket geek. The hard-science SF writer's tech support. The website is at
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
Refugee from the decline and fall of Google Plus.
In my long and misspent youth I did the artwork for various TTWG such as Ogre, WarpWar, GEV and such.
Joined Apr 2022
