Recent content by Hylleddin

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is pretty good, if you want a more humorous bent.

There are a number of definitions of "hard" sci fi, and it's best considered a spectrum, not a category. They're trying to be as close as possible to the hard end as they can while retaining an interstellar setting with realistic tech-development timescales. They could be less smug on the...

Have to say I quite liked Martin's.

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Just had an idea for a map. We'll see if I can get it on time.

Lots of religions, maybe even the majority, have some kund of apocalyptic future. Ragnarok, Revelations, Last Judgement. You see it even in non-religous contexts, like some versions of the Singularity. This is deeper in human thought than just Christianity. People just seem to have trouble...

I don't think the US government could shut down Wikileaks, as I doubt Assange would use American servers to host his website in a set up like this. He is in Sweden, after all, and isn't too fond of the US government. The US could block americans' access to it, though. The idea of the internet...

That tends to disenfranchise specific voting groups, usually ones that don't have a lot of means to defend themselves politically anyway. And any test could easily become corrupted with ideological questions that would create the sort of extremist government it's designed to prevent. I think...

Feynmann Diagrams!

A proper electron shell configuration doesn't really fit on a flag. I suppose I could of used a radiation sign.

My suggestions for an Idaho state flag, in descending order of seriousness

Civilization series, definitely. Stargate dealt with alternate timelines more thoroughly then most TV shows except Sliders, Fringe, and maybe Star Trek. Star Wars doesn't have anything AH-y except for some obscure comic books, unless you want to count the various video games' multiple endings...

But there are wires hanging everywhere. Power Lines along most roads, electrical outlets every few feet, most basic appliances controlled by microchips. We're a very electric society compared to them. I think they'd see us as what we would call "teslapunk" with stuff like lightning cannons...

If they're North or South the climate will be different. Top and bottom are just a matter of map projections.

One way to get these is to take greek-latin hybrid words and make them pure greek or pure latin. For example, "automobile" becomes the much cooler sounding "autokiniton" (A few OTL greek companies use the word). Doesn't always work: "television" becomes "telescope" or "longvision". Many of...