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Leigh Brackett also wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973)

Technically, the ones with slides are called "perrygrafs" or "slide charts". https://sphere.bc.ca/test/perrygraf.html Nomograms have no moving slides, they are static printed scale…

"King David's Spaceship" aka "A Spaceship For The King" by Jerry Pournelle

There are some notes on warship classification here: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewarship.ph...

Agreed, but to be pedantic, it applies to all momentum machines which carry its own "propellant", not "fuel". For instance, in a NERVA rocket, the "fuel" is the uranium rods in the…

Solar Sail, Laser Sail, Electric Sail, Magnetic Sail, Mini-magnetospheric plasma sail, MagBeam, Plasma Magnet Sail, Photon Drive, Bussard Ramjet, Ram-Augmented Interstellar Rocket.…

I'm no expert but I think the answer is "No", due to other problems. Distances are closer in Globular Clusters. Alas, those are "metal poor", so the only planets are gas giants lik…

The saucer looks suspiciously like "Project Silver Bug" http://www.foia.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090218-169.... It appeared in many of the popular magazines of the time htt…

And about five minutes later, zillions of programmers would start writing similar apps, in hope of a big payday when Facebook shows up to buy them out.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/03/advanced-propulsion-physics...

I suggest that you look into PyQt / PySide On the surface it is a GUI engine, but it has much more inside.

Not much. The main difference between a missile and a robot controlled spacecraft is that the latter has more propellant. The spacecraft presumably is intended to return while the …

Well, that turns out not to be the case. I'm the author of the Project Rho site, and I did not write the essay on the Spacebattles forum. But I agree with all the points the poster…

Here is a scary thought http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/weirdastronomy.php#id--Elda...

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsN...

Things that need to be rethought? Well, pretty much the entirety of physics for starters. http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/fasterlight.php#id--Causali...

Well, you can avoid changing basic human motivations by using an alternative solution. Jay Gould is attributed to have said "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the ot…

I was under the impression that the extraction and purification of rare earth elements was such an ecological catastrophe that environmental protection laws in the US had made the …

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/fasterlight.php#id--Causali... "Causality, Relativity, FTL travel: chose any two. You cannot have all three." Physicists choose Relativity since it…

Raphaël Poss adapted Tenqwar to the artificial language Lojban http://vodka-pomme.net/projects/tengwar-for-lojban/

http://venturefizz.com/blog/ten-steps-build-basic-content-hu...