Destination: Jupiter
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Destination: Jupiter
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#2It is always fascinating to see how much influence authors and scientists have had on each other throughout history.
You sometimes see clear examples of how fiction fuels technology, and sometimes technology inspires fiction.
As a writer who hasn’t been published yet, I find that most of my stories start by imagining where today’s science might take us next, though every now and then, I catch a glimpse of something that feels truly original.
I'm curious if others here feel the same. Is the future mostly written by visionaries in fiction, or by the engineers and scientists bringing it to life? Or maybe it’s a union, intended or not, between both sides.
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#3It is always fascinating to see how much influence authors and scientists have had on each other throughout history. You sometimes see clear examples of how fiction fuels technology, and sometimes technology inspires fiction. As a writer who hasn’t been published yet, I find that most of my stories start by imagining where today’s science might take us next, though every now and then, I catch a glimpse of something t…
I feel the same way, although I think technology's inspiration on fiction is stronger. Today's fiction, as you said, is simply tomorrow's science.
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#4It is always fascinating to see how much influence authors and scientists have had on each other throughout history. You sometimes see clear examples of how fiction fuels technology, and sometimes technology inspires fiction. As a writer who hasn’t been published yet, I find that most of my stories start by imagining where today’s science might take us next, though every now and then, I catch a glimpse of something t…
I feel the same way, although I think technology's inspiration on fiction is stronger. Today's fiction, as you said, is simply tomorrow's science.
Thanks for your comment, that’s exactly what I was wondering about.
For me, I actually tend to see things the other way around where authors often inspire tech. Example, engineers who watched Star Trek as kids and ended up designing the first flip phones. Sometimes we build things simply because technology finally makes them possible, and only later do we realize it’s straight out of a story we grew up with.
Especially when a whole generation grows up with the same sci-fi stories, certain ideas just start to seem “normal” or even become things people expect to see for real. A kind of relationship between our collective dreams and the inventions that follow, i guess.
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#5It is always fascinating to see how much influence authors and scientists have had on each other throughout history. You sometimes see clear examples of how fiction fuels technology, and sometimes technology inspires fiction. As a writer who hasn’t been published yet, I find that most of my stories start by imagining where today’s science might take us next, though every now and then, I catch a glimpse of something t…
as a high schooler I took a summer class in “reading & writing scifi” offered by MIT Junction. it was very influential on my intellectual development and after that I focused myself on learning software and electronics, the only crafts I saw that could give me the power to pull parts of the visions into the present.
a few weeks ago I started on a focused read of historical scifi, in chronological order, that had something to say about intelligent machines and AI. I feel like the best story for our moment might be “The Master Key,” where a boy wise beyond his years rejects powers too advanced for humanity to adapt.
all my interest in building https://rbg.systems came from wanting the sort of powerful, resilient, reflective software systems that show up in fiction all the time but are so far from the reality. it’s pretty boring stuff to try and reach something like the ship described in Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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#6Kind of hard for SF stories featuring organic life (i.e. humans) to be based around Jupiter because of the planet's incredibly strong magnetic field and hence killing radiation belts - like the Van Allen belts around Earth, but much worse. Probes to the Jovian system have to be heavily hardened.
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#7Reading this post reminded me of another book I read a few years ago: Curious Moon [0].
It is written as a novel that teaches PostgreSQL by exploring the dataset of the Cassini orbiter around Enceladus, Saturn's moon. Highly recommended and fun read.
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#8It is always fascinating to see how much influence authors and scientists have had on each other throughout history. You sometimes see clear examples of how fiction fuels technology, and sometimes technology inspires fiction. As a writer who hasn’t been published yet, I find that most of my stories start by imagining where today’s science might take us next, though every now and then, I catch a glimpse of something t…
as a high schooler I took a summer class in “reading & writing scifi” offered by MIT Junction. it was very influential on my intellectual development and after that I focused myself on learning software and electronics, the only crafts I saw that could give me the power to pull parts of the visions into the present. a few weeks ago I started on a focused read of historical scifi, in chronological order, that had some…
That is interesting. I might have to find some time to check out the book. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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#9>He observed a trio of lights near the planet
>He had discovered four of Jupiter’s moons
okay then..
edit: flagged?? refer to above
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#10>He observed a trio of lights near the planet >He had discovered four of Jupiter’s moons okay then.. edit: flagged?? refer to above
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