RE: Stephen Hawking: "There are no black holes"

2014-03-02 Thread Ellen S .
So if this is correct, what is the difference between a black hole and a naked singularity? The article describes an event horizon shrinking or growing in relation to a black hole's apparent horizon, but isn't Hawking saying that the apparent horizon is real and the event horizon just doesn't e

RE: For David Brin and the rest of you

2014-03-02 Thread Ellen S .
Solar and wind energy on Earth certainly are economically viable, far more than the costs and damages we'll have to pay for massive climate change. Fossil fuels are "cheap" right now only because the costs (military action, increased pollution and disease and medical costs, climate change, wildf

RE: Introducing Myself

2014-03-05 Thread Ellen S .
AT LAST my messages from like 6 months ago when I joined the mailing list have materialized. Though I do wonder what took so long. I see references to messages that I know I have not gotten, so I think there's also something preventing my address from receiving some messages from this list. Who

What are peeps reading lately?

2014-03-05 Thread Ellen S .
Late last year when I wasn't feeling well and needed some lighter reading than The Lord of the Rings, I started the Dragonriders of Pern series. Now that I'm feeling better somehow I got sidetracked into very complicated math and trying to make the GURPS solar system simulator and GURPS Uplift ali

RE: Uplift questions

2014-03-05 Thread Ellen S .
> Spoiler warning to anyone who hasn't read Heaven's > Reach!! > And that's Alvin, Mudfoot, and Huck on Harathrurptra. > (Correct spelling anyone?) > Mudfoot can become VERY important if Harathrumta (Sp?) > has Rousit. In what way? By influencing Rousit in some way to be friendly to C

RE: Introducing Myself

2014-03-06 Thread Ellen S .
> From: albm...@centroin.com.br > William Taylor wrote: >> >> The 4th dimension is going to close down as the galaxy that Jijo is in >> breaks away from the other four galaxies. >> > It also mean that all the "magic" will go out from Jijo. Everything > that can't be explained by XX-cent technology

RE: Introducing Myself

2014-03-06 Thread Ellen S .
And then "Temptation" introduced a bunch more cliffhangers to the situation on Jijo, via the Buyur. I think the Buyur will prevent the Jophur from winning, but I doubt they have any incentive to prevent the destruction of any part of the Commons civilization. ~E.S.

Gravitational Waves

2014-03-31 Thread Ellen S .
A team with a telescope (BICEP2) at the South Pole announced March 17 that they have detected the imprint of primordial gravitational waves on the cosmic microwave background radiation. http://www.nature.com/news/telescope-captures-view- of-gravitational-waves-1.14876 http://www.nature.com/news

RE: Ad Astra article

2014-04-01 Thread Ellen S .
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5iotdmmTJQsSzVYQ2Q0YUtCMERRczdYSXMtUWphUl92aHFN/edit?usp=sharing > > Working on a similar article for much higher circulation outlet. > > Keith Alright, now I'm feeling pretty hopeful about what power satellites can do for us. Thanks for sharing! I'm less opti