Author: Brian

I will let this speak for itself

For those of you who haven’t heard about spore yet, all I can say is wow.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-262774490184348066
I can’t say much about it, I will let the video speak for itself. Just remember this is will wright, the Midas of the computer gaming industry.

For those of you who haven’t heard about spore yet, all I can say is wow. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-262774490184348066 I can’t say much about it, I will let the video speak for itself. Just remember this is will wright, the Midas of the computer gaming industry.

Are we finally ready for space?

In the last 40 years Space Travel has grown more and more distant and less important to most of the human race. “Yes, it’s a great idea” most investors would claim, “But it’s too expensive” and the dreams of people like me, who have been reading SF and fantasy since they were kids, were dashed on the rocks of reality by the true mother of invention, profit.
However, despite the recent success of private enterprise in attaining orbits that, while not quite ‘in space’ are certainly landmarks on the way, the spectre of financial feasability has always been there, threatening to take it’s scythe to the whole concept of leaving the planet that we, as a race, are turning into a poisoned womb unliveable by any species.

In the last 40 years Space Travel has grown more and more distant and less important to most of the human race. “Yes, it’s a great idea” most investors would claim, “But it’s too expensive” and the dreams of people like me, who have been reading SF and fantasy since they were kids, were dashed on the rocks of reality by the true mother of invention, profit. However, despite the recent success of private enterprise in attaining orbits that, while not quite ‘in space’ are certainly landmarks on the way, the spectre of financial feasability has always been there, threatening to take it’s scythe to the whole concept of leaving the planet that we, as a race, are turning into a poisoned womb unliveable by any species. But recently, there was a flash of hope to combat the dream destroying reality of that huge sixty-two thousand mile gravity well we all live in, and it’s called the carbon nanotube. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/03/01/8370588/index.htm I am no physicist, but I do agree with the article’s assessment that the way they are talking about nanotubes could mean a beanstalk-style transit to orbit on par with anything Arthur C. Clarke could dream up, within the next 20 years. My 50th birthday party could be held in earth orbit! This could open up potential undreamt of for colonising other worlds, creating spacecraft that would never have to enter a gravity well, and all sorts of other ideas that until now were little more than the writings of creative futurists.

Well, it got me, I am excited 🙂

Hi

Hi again. welcome me back to barnson.org.
lost my password and matt gave me a new one, so I should be good to go for a while
Still painting miniatures and doing D&D stuff.
and I am trying to make my web page actually worth looking at, heaven knows I have enough creative content for 500 web pages
well, give it time.
when I get a page up and good I will post the link.
in the last 24 hours I have made http://home.comcast.net/~barnson.b/citymap2.jpg

Hi again. welcome me back to barnson.org. lost my password and matt gave me a new one, so I should be good to go for a while Still painting miniatures and doing D&D stuff. and I am trying to make my web page actually worth looking at, heaven knows I have enough creative content for 500 web pages well, give it time. when I get a page up and good I will post the link. in the last 24 hours I have made http://home.comcast.net/~barnson.b/citymap2.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~barnson.b/citymap3.jpg

and for those of you wishing to see my current game go to http://home.comcast.net/~barnson.b/cartoon_heroes.pdf please bear in mind that it is still incomplete and needs to be indexed.

and yes, I use a nom de guerre. -Brian