Structural materials like regolith should be prioritized, followed by water from which both propellant and life support can be derived.
Reference Frames
An appropriate choice of reference frame will make things far simpler, while a poor choice of reference frame can make the situation dramatically more complicated.
An Interstellar Interloper
Any spacecraft wishing to rendezvous with 3I/ATLAS will need to match its velocity, and hyperbolic interstellar trajectories are fast. I did some quick, back-of-the-envelope calculations to find just how fast.
Some Thoughts Concerning Ziporyn’s “Minimally Discernible Position” of Daodejing
I do not recommend reading his essay before you’ve read Daodejing, for all he includes extensive excerpts from its key chapters to illustrate his points, but it is an interesting exploration to further your thinking after first exposing yourself to Daodejing’s insights.
Intimacy and the Unreliable Narrator
Just as real people are inevitably tinted by biases, experiences, backgrounds, opinions, and perspectives, the notional storytellers of our writing are bound by the same tendencies.
Real Fiction
If reflecting reality were the ultimate goal of art, I should sell all my mirrors at an art auction, make a few hundred million dollars off about fifty dollars in glass and metal foil, and retire as a world-famous artist.
Computational Engineering – Engineering from First Principles
At its core, computational engineering is engineering from first principles. Rather than the engineer's job being to develop geometry, in computational engineering the engineer's job is to determine the specifications and parameters which will drive geometry and provide them to the computer.
Progress and Revisions
I am now being deliberate about developing and implementing the rhetoric I want to see - rather than treating it like an unchanging operating system I can only affect indirectly, I am treating it like an application I can custom-code to my specifications.
Novel-ty
Studying these matters causally might be impossible, but a recent paper, “Sameness Entices, but Novelty Enchants in Fanfiction Online,” explores a correlational relationship between the enjoyment of a work and the work’s originality through a data analysis of an online fanfiction archive.
Systems, Morals, Rulers, and Rebels
When I shared that notion – that evil is a matter of mismatched expectations – with some colleagues in a conversation, they thought I was making a joke. It’s not intended as one. Indeed, it is a somewhat frightening, and certainly disconcerting, idea to countenance
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