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I am fairly certain it is not legal to edit the URL to get to a page on a website. People have gone to jail for this. EDIT: To be clear, I am commenting as a way of venting over the ridiculous state of affairs, not because I agree or think that science.org will send the feds after you.
Have you got any sources of this?
Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
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Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#32This is from Derek Lowe's blog "In The Pipeline" on the pharmaceutical industry via chemistry, and it's the best. It's bounced around a couple hosts over the years, and sadly this latest incarnation on science.org doesn't preserve the tags from the original. Nevertheless, look up "Derek Lowe things I won't work with" for a great and hilarious series of posts on "fun" chemicals. For example: * Peroxide Peroxides: http…
This comment section full of plutonian chemistry and sketchy rocketry is the perfect place to mention Charles Stross' A Tall Tail [0], a short sci-fi story covering both. [0] https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
LOL, now that I've read it, I'm pretty sure Derek's blog inspired Charlie to write this story (that, or the common denominator of reading "Ignition!"). It's a great cstross "what-if" story :D
Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment section full of plutonian chemistry and sketchy rocketry is the perfect place to mention Charles Stross' A Tall Tail [0], a short sci-fi story covering both. [0] https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
LOL, now that I've read it, I'm pretty sure Derek's blog inspired Charlie to write this story (that, or the common denominator of reading "Ignition!"). It's a great cstross "what-if" story :D
I reread it myself earlier today, and intemperately page-down'd into the comments... where I found Derek himself!! He wrote
>Hah! Glad to see my “Things I Won’t Work With” series wrapped up with a nice conspiratorial bow on top. (I have to say, though, I never would have brought FOOF and dimethyl mercury together; you have a weird mind, which is a compliment you’ve probably heard before).
Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
LOL, now that I've read it, I'm pretty sure Derek's blog inspired Charlie to write this story (that, or the common denominator of reading "Ignition!"). It's a great cstross "what-if" story :D
I reread it myself earlier today, and intemperately page-down'd into the comments... where I found Derek himself!! He wrote >Hah! Glad to see my “Things I Won’t Work With” series wrapped up with a nice conspiratorial bow on top. (I have to say, though, I never would have brought FOOF and dimethyl mercury together; you have a weird mind, which is a compliment you’ve probably heard before).
It's useful to know that, before he was a successful writer, and before he was a programmer for proto-online-banking in the first Dot-Com Boom, Mr Stross was a pharmacist. I'm sure that comment from Derek Lowe was high praise to him!