JoeSchmuckatelli

Sure - if you have the credits for it, Mr. Moneybags The rest of us have to wirejack

IIRC they said they won't be there.

I've flipped through Empire of the East... and I know I read several books by Saberhagen. Empire doesn't 'feel' right... nor do the Swords books (I know I read one or two)... but it might be. Timeline works out (recovered near-future calamity)... I just don't think it had magic and demons. The scene had a chamber or container adjacent to the 'box' the guy gets into; and the dust (cellular detrius) swirls in the chamber. I think he uses it a couple of times. I have the feeling that the guy thought he was getting into or hoped he was getting into a stasis generator/cryo-storage thing and was disappointed it did not work. The other part that is sticking in my head has the protagonist early on clambering over a vine covered hill - and then he falls into it. Turns out it was an old 'our world' or 'near future our world' house or building. (I know, another trope). Shanarra did that too, if I recall. Now that part may have been something directly from Empire... Anyway, 30 year old memories of a novel I read looong ago. I did that very thing! Cannot tell you how annoyed my wife is that I keep these old books - but frankly, I love them! Thing is - I cannot rule out Saberhagen - but it has a kind of Niven or Baer feel; but I think you're right on the timeframe! (Appreciate the continued brain-wrangling!)

Yeah - that wasn't the story I remember... Still thinking

I've been wracking my brain all day with Empire of the East - which I remember enjoying (as I enjoyed many of Saberhagen's works - including the Swords books and Berserker series way back when). The problem is the 'sense' I have of the protagonist; IIRC the protagonist in Empire is a kid with a knack for machines. The sense I have of the protagonist in the story I referenced seemed more mature; i.e. someone who would truly appreciate being rejuvenated. Still - it's likely Empire of the East... but then World out of Time. That character name rang a bell; but not the story synopsis you linked. Continuing to wrack my brain.

If you want to get a feel for just how ridiculously insane Webb is - read this: "Is Webb at its final temperature? The answer is: almost!" James Webb Space Telescope (nasa.gov)

I'm gonna walk here, around in a circle!

I've long referred to campfires (mostly to my children) as "Caveman TV" Turns out - I'm right! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/europe/prehistoric-art-fire-light-moving-images-scn/index.html (With a little help from carving and etching)

I forget the author - but there was a good Sci-Fi book I read years ago where a guy lived kind of in the remnants of an advanced civilization - and without knowing it used anti-aging tech. He got into something like a phone booth and pushed a button - something happened, but he did not know what; it cleared out all the 'dust' and aging stuff from his cells. Was pretty cool. Can't remember the name of the book or author. Empire something, maybe.

Yeah - that little shimmy there at the end; remarkable. Such control!

Yep

Dutch is interesting - I've found the same. Don't speak a word of the language but I have skimmed articles and been able to glean the gist (and whether I wanted to take the time to dump sections into Google translate) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wäinö_Aaltonen?

Me too! Also, the Cornish 'sows' is funny! Because that would be verrucht und nicht wichtig. ( Fer-rukt and vi(cat hissing sound)-tig) ... So difficult to write correct pronunciation sounds of German words in English... We don't have the cat-hiss, the gutteral rolling 'r' or the throat clearing vowel/consonant !

This is cool - Martian crater in 8k glory. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mars-crater-8k-footage_n_626104bce4b09c32edf8920f

That was cool!

Auf Deutsch, 'veh' comes after 'fau'. Never heard a German say 'doppel fau' or 'doppel veh'. Aber, Englisch? Ja, there is a double yew. But it's NOT a vowel in English... Even if the Celts use it as a vowel in their language

File this under "The Road to Hell is Paved With What???" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/04/solar-geo-engineering-global-warming-malaria/629604/ Climate panicking Geo - Engineering proponents want to mimic the Pinatubo effect by spraying sulfur dioxide indiscriminately throughout the atmosphere: ...calling this reckless, feckless plan an 'ethical necessity'. Thankfully, they're getting pushback from climate science: The article goes on to discuss a different and more immediate potential problem with the Geo-Engineers plan: raising rates for malaria across the world (malaria remains the 6th leading killer of people, globally). Lord, save us from well-intentioned fools.

I just got into this argument with my wife. Darn you to Heck for proving her right. https://imgur.com/gallery/9r8D5Gf

I suspect that's going to have to be one of the 'gamification' things we have to accept. SOI is SOOOO much easier (said the non-maths guy). I really do wonder, however, whether some limited n-body stuff might find its way in... like Rask & Rusk zone. Just one or two very small places where you want weird stuff to happen; that might be actually harder to do via the old SOI (i.e. what happens when you go between the two). Still - like you wrote: it will be cool to find out what they've done!

I would think that your likelihood of accident caused death increases with age. Example: 19 y.o. skaterdude beefs and gets up and walks away - but 90 y.o. skaterdude beefs and he's shattered. Mind you - the current modification to that is 90 y.o.'s don't typically skate. So to determine your actuarial lifespan you should take out lifestyle choices. Use the typical city dwelling non driving basement living milquetoast as your young person baseline to compare to the 90 yo

With all the SLS analogies - if applicable - Uranus won't get probed for a long time

@kerbiloid gives a solid answer. Absent carrying a nuke, it is an overly complicated and expensive solution for the vast majority of military use cases. This works out to - it's only real purpose is to kill cities with nukes... And as he writes, it has the presumed ability to evade current defensive measures. There is one other possible use for conventionally armed hypersonics - being a 'Carrier Killer'. Given that almost zero of the non American carriers have significant offensive capabilities - they're designed to be a shot across the bow of Pax Americana. Only problem is that the 'floating cities' are harder to hit than the terrestrial. https://news.usni.org/2021/06/14/mda-u-s-aircraft-carriers-now-at-risk-from-hypersonic-missiles

$50 million failure Wowsers.

I must have had a brain fart - because I don't have a clue what you guys are talking about

For a planet to catch a wanderer and turn it into a moon - does the moon have to enter the system as part of a pair of self-orbiting objects? (I've read capture can be obtained if one of the bodies is thrown away which allows the angular momentum shift necessary for a capture of the other body... but is there another way?)