Activity for BMF For Monica
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Rapid-repeat re-entry vehicles In my current writing project, I'm working in a universe where mysterious alien beings travel not directly through space, but through planetary atmospheres via wormholes. These aliens shotgunned through our Solar System, networking our planets together among themselves and among other exoplanets arou... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Jupiter Leaks Into Earth A recent question here on SE:WB reminded me of a short story I wrote a long time ago, and has inspired me to revisit the idea. The premise: A race of massive alien creatures travel from planet to planet, solar system to solar system, via large wormholes embedded in planetary atmospheres (reason bei... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
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Dissipating sonic booms Alastair Reynolds is a contemporary sci-fi writer whose works often demonstrate a strong grip on science as it presently stands. Recently, I picked up his book On The Steel Breeze for a quick re-read of the first few chapters and stumbled across something interesting: Chiku barely glimpsed the fi... (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
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Snow on a low-gravity, high-pressure world Disclaimer: I am not a meteorologist. Snow forms when supercooled water droplets nucleate onto particles in the atmosphere. After forming, they grow further by both tumbling around within the cloud and by tumbling down through the atmosphere, colliding and mingling with other snowflakes throughout t... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Aliens englobed the Solar System: will we notice? Around 100 million years ago, the Solar System was instantaneously encased in a massless, magical sphere centered about the Sun. The boundary is about 10,000 AU (.158 ly) in radius and behaves abnormally: matter and energy from outside the boundary may enter into the Solar System unaffected, while ma... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |