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THE OBSERVATORY Science and Technology |
| The Universe is the biggest toy of them all. Alas, the designer
-- who evidently has a rather impish sense of fun -- neglected to include a user manual,
and didn't even put "some equipment required" on the outside of the box. So we get to figure those things out ourselves. Consider it an Educational Play Activity ... |
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It's Toy Time! (April 15, 2001) Available now! Newly updated version of my Spring Style battleship-specification simulator, Planet climate simulator, and Starship / Fusion / Spacewep package of space-oriented sims! Build that 90,000 ton superdreadnought you always dreamed of! Create a hellish world you can exile your enemies to! Find out why a carton of skim milk is a deadly space weapon, if it hits you at 90 kilometers per second! Fun for boys and girls of all ages!
Interstellar Trade: A Primer (February 20, 2001) I confess to being a sucker for a type of science fiction that is not always the most literary: space SF. At bottom this is surely the tourist impulse ...
No Cheap Orbiters? (February 20, 2000) An ever-popular theme among space enthusiasts is that space should be privatized. Not, that is, that the Solar System should be parceled out into subdivisions and sold off (well, maybe that too), but that access to space should be privatized ... (Also posted in Capitalism: The Great Game)
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