Notices by Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)

@foone @mdhughes @jeffzugale @cptbutton @DenOfEarth @swope @th

Though a wax cylinder probably does not have enough storage to save a copy of Doom...

@foone @mdhughes @jeffzugale @cptbutton @DenOfEarth @swope @th

My favorite example of scifi prediction failure is in "Into the Meteorite Orbit" by Frank K. Kelly (1933).

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/techlevel.php#predictfail

@foone

That is your superhero superpower: can make Doom run in any electronic device you touch.

https://jalopnik.com/ukrainian-forces-built-a-hydrogen-bomb-out-of-a-toyota-1851620854

@foone

But you can have a bit of both 1 & 0 if you have a hanging chad...

I built the goofy-light kit when I was a little boy

https://hackaday.com/2018/12/14/retrotechtacular-remembering-radio-shack-p-box-kits/

Here is a better image

@foone

Did you inadvertently let out the magic smoke?

This real-life boat looks like a painting by John Berkey

https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-largest-sportsfishing-boat-launched-superyacht-1866860

Plastic model of the dreaded Project Pluto nightmare missile

https://fantastic-plastic.com/project-pluto-slam---catalog.html

@MichaelPhillips

Sadly, no.

They used to have a plastic model of the Orion drive battleship, but it has been discontinued

https://fantastic-plastic.com/project-orion-battleship---retired.html

Notes on the dreaded nanotechnology "grey goo" scenario.
TL;DR it is not much of a threat due to limits of chemistry and thermodynamics

https://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/Ecophagy.htm

@foone

I used Graffiti all the time on my Handspring Prism (2000). About ten times as fast and more accurate than using the touch screen keyboard with my fat fingers.

To Build an Interstellar Radio Bridge

Use the Sun's and Alpha Centauri A's gravitational focus with a miserable 10-4 watt transmitter.

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2023/10/25/to-build-an-interstellar-radio-bridge/

https://petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/732160258206760960/pax-britannica-bugartist-1950sunlimited

Your scifi world building idea for the day: mega scrap town

Brain storming sessions like this are why I miss Google Plus

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/starshipowner.php#shipbreakers

#MegaScrapTown

Apple TV's production of Foundation takes major liberties with Asimov's original story.

Having said that, I personally feel that the title sequence does successfully capture the *feel* of the original trilogy.

#Foundation #IsaacAsimov