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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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!
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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.
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4/ And just out today, a solitaire adventure set on Zimrala. It has a GM adventure section I helped write, and compact M!M! rules so you can jump right in.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/416362/Mission-for-a-Cat-Goddess?src=hottest_filtered
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Live views from the Kennedy Space Center this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN50Gj7zejY - at least the Artemis I stack is still standung. Alas ... "wind gusts exceeded its design specification": https://twitter.com/alexwitze/status/1590694425252200448
Explaining Laser Weapons in Space Combat (video)
https://youtu.be/DJWzvfnkwNQ
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The Puddle-jumper; a small electric plane the family uses to trade along Two-Sky River. Many parts were bought from traders across the Kiln, or made by Mother and other artisans out of local materials. #Birrin #scifi #sciencefiction #alien #illustration #art
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I'm Rob, an illustrator from the UK. I love to draw spaceships, robots, and imaginary places. I've worked on several books, including my own sci-fi project - Weird Field World. I'm available for private and commercial commissions.
You can find me here…
NASA delays Artemis 1 moon launch to Nov. 16 due to Tropical Storm Nicole
https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-launch-delay-november-16-tropical-storm-nicole
How many types of precipitation can a planet have?
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/types-of-precipitation-planet/
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Started painting in oils again recently in my spare time. Personal projects looking for looser style. Water soluble oil on panel.
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In honor of Carl Sagan, born #OTD in 1934: Here's the original Pale Blue Dot image, taken by Voyager 1 gazing back on the solar system in 1990, along with Carl's reflections on why it mattered. https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot #astronomy #SciComm
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
