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    A Thread for Writers to talk about Writing

    in KSP Fan Works

    Posted

    Mods: If the link in the following post is not permissible here, please remove it. I have no vested interest or financial consideration involved, just thinking this might be something that might appeal to writers

    I got this message today from a company with whom I've done business before. They released a new course called Science Fiction as Philosophy. It has a series of 24 lectures by a university professor touching on, well, philosophical discussions of popular science fiction, including Star Trek, The Matrix, Westworld, Dr. Who and a bunch more. Copying and pasting just a touch:

    ...throughout the lectures of Sci-Phi, you will ponder many questions that have concerned philosophers for centuries, including:

    • Do humans truly have free will?
    • Could machines one day be conscious? Or be sentient?
    • Could we actually be living in a simulated world?
    • How will humanity confront a future of diminished resources and advancing technology?
    • Are science and religion compatible?
    • When, if ever, is war justified?
    • How do we know what information to trust and what to dismiss?

     I know not everyone's in a position to be able to fork over cash for stuff like this, but I'm sharing it as possibly it may be of assistance to some aspiring writers.

    Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-CHAPTER 21 pg 18--He's a docking wizard! (there had to be a twist?)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    3 hours ago, KSK said:

    Does he hit one of the Kerbulans and save the day - but resorted to violence to do it?

    Or does he miss both Kerbulans, end up in a more perilous situation but refused to use violence?

    He used a tool to intimidate, if not injure or kill another creature. Like a monkey grabbing a bone and using it as a club on an animal it's going to eat, or on another monkey, this bridge has now been crossed and can't be uncrossed. Has he now become the monster from which he was trying to save his crewmates? Will they ever be able to look at him, or themselves, the same way again?

    KSP Weekly: A Private Space Race

    in KSP1 The Daily Kerbal

    Posted

    Would love to have seen a mention of the very first private space industry, started by my step-mom's first husband, Nick Piantanida, back in the 60s. 

    There's been a few books and a documentary of it. 

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    In 1965, a truck driver and exotic pet dealer from New Jersey decided that he could join an elite group of men who had been to the final frontier -- space. With no formal training, no college degree, and barely enough money to support his wife and three young children, he set out to take a balloon to the edge of space and jump out. If he succeeded, he'd set a world record in a free fall back to earth for nearly 17 minutes.

     

    The Saga of Emiko Station - Complete

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    9 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

    Platypi? 

    Gonna go all grammar cop here... Platypus is a word of Greek origin, not Latin. (from Greek platypous flat-footed, from platys broad, flat + pous foot) The correct pluralization is Platypodes. 

    However, being a fairly novel plural form, it is seldom used; the plurals platypuses, platypus, or, more rarely, platypi are more common. It should be noted that some use the plural form platypi under the impression that platypus is a masculine Latin second declension noun, which it is not. Thus, in English, the word "platypi" is incorrect. In scientific circles, platypoda is sometimes used as well.

    Another example is Octopus, from the Greek Octo (eight) + pous (foot). 

    But, most dictionaries have caved to pressure from the vast Platypuses conspiracy and list that as the most common usage.

    Now back to this most excellent adventure... Which, as we are being led to believe, is soon to contain a plurality of platypodes!

    The Saga of Emiko Station - Complete

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    Just now, Just Jim said:

    That would be so cool. I could pick his brain while we wait for the power to come back on.

    The sad reality is that he should be picking your brain to learn how to tell stories. Stories are more than car chases and explosions. Unless it's a story about car chases and explosions. Michael Bay has told that story way too many times in film. 

    Kerbfleet: A Jool Odyssey-CHAPTER 21 pg 18--He's a docking wizard! (there had to be a twist?)

    in KSP1 Mission Reports

    Posted

    Everyone is so focused on landing the Enterprise, but my guess is it's not meant to land again, at least intact. 

    We've seen how many characters fared on the Kerbiashi Maru simulator, but never Admiral Shirley. She also seems to think Val is the Next Generation and is ready for Val's own greatness. I can foresee a scenario where Admiral Shirley, when things are looking very bleak for our heroes, makes a heroic sacrifice that involves the destruction of the Enterprise to bring about an end to hostilities. The Kerbulans have taken out some Kerbfleet buildings. I bet the Enterprise can take out a few, too. 

    There seem to be enough Glidos around to take the rest of the crew home safely, at least for now. 

    Just my guess.

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