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Archive for October, 2008

News on the war – here we go

In case you haven’t heard, looks like the war in the outer system is heating up. I have a friend that is stationed on the Ulysses and he just wrote me that his carrier group is moving out. It’s not classified or anything, trust me. When twelve military space vessels move somewhere, it’s not exactly [...]


Ride on a Bubble Yacht

What do people do when they are faced with some great tradgy like the one yesterday? They go on a yacht, that’s what. I have a friend at the University who has a friend, who knows a guy, who’s engaged to someone, who’s father’s partner own’s a Bubble Yacht. At least I think. Whoever it [...]


Immortal dies – System is in shock

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the Immortal that died today. I was in class giving a lecture on the Outer System war of 2210 when student’s starting getting up and leaving. After the 12th one I began to inquire what was going on. The news hit me like it hit them. Immortals weren’t supposed [...]


Freakiness of history telescopes

I attended a lecture today on history telescopes. This is quite the concept and for us historians a new field of research is opening up. When I first heard of this concept I was a bit skeptical. What would the clarity be? How much could you really see? After seeing the initial tests I must [...]


Went to an AI meetup in vSpace, never a dull moment

What can I say about AI’s. I love those guys. They are an example of human ingenuity and turned out to be our greatest allies. I read an old news report about fear mongering where everyone thought the AI’s would decide that they are superior to us and kills us off, how silly that is [...]


Moon Array finds yet another “earth” … yea

Well I’m sure you’ve all seen the news. The large moon telescope array has found yet another earth like planet. I was in between classes and heard the news. It was more like an update alert honestly. What does that make, over 3,000? Should I go ahead and say it? Who cares? Enough already with [...]


Yet another reason why I hate teenagers

Once again, teenagers smuggled weapons into a public virtual park. I was minding my own business on a net I found that seemed very quiet. It was patterned after a beautiful scenic park. It was also set to be non-violent. Of course, kids don’t care about those settings. Most have figured out how to smuggle [...]


Hard week at the university, traditional classes still worth it

Another week done, another crop of students to teach. I often am intrigued and happily surprised by the number of kids coming in for traditional learning. I, of course, am a big proponent of traditional learning. Why? Lets find out.
We all know that with the advancement of technologies, people are able to learn anything in [...]


Rise of the Neo-Humans

The Singularity event brought about great changes in Human society. One of those were the eventual birth of neo-humans. Neo-Humans, or Neo’s as they are commonly called, are those groups of humans that have altered their genetic code and have become a separate and distinct species from Home Sapiens Sapiens. Under the current Sentient Accords accepted [...]


Just got back from trip to New Luna

As the title says, I just got back from an actual, not virtual, trip to New Luna. I decided to take the week off and spoil myself to a little vacation. I debated going somewhere on Earth but after recently writing about New Luna I decided to head up there. It’s not that far really [...]