Month: February 2012
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One morning last week I opened my PC to the news that The Highest Frontier had made the Locus 2011 Recommended Reading List. Then I squinted and rubbed my aging eyes (time for my annual trip to the optometrist). My book had actually made the Young Adult list. This despite including an adult VPC and…
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In our last two threads on green energy, it was proposed that we seed the Moon with self-replicating solar factories. Is anyone seriously attempting to do this? There was the NASA study in 1981, and a more recent (very technical) study in 2004. Of course, Earth is full of self-replicating solar factories. They’re known as…
Joan Slonczewski 