Tag: science

Which Space Drive?

For my new novel Singularity’s Children, I am thinking about options for interplanetary propulsion (…for interstellar you will need to wait for my next book!)

My current favorite for early 21st Century Equiv-Tech is the Fusion Driven Rocket based around Magneto-Inertial Fusion (also here).

While researching I also came across this awesome site from  

 

Rise of the Vocaloids

Miku, the synthetic J-Pop Hologram Celebrity who packs thousands of frenzied fans into her venues. 

“Miku’s biggest fans show up with wands that can change color with the tap of a button or slider. Colors aren’t just generic red-green-yellow; they’re specifically tuned to the different characters’ shades.” 


“You can watch all of the Hatsune Miku videos on YouTube you want, but their 30 or 60 FPS refresh doesn’t come close to selling what it’s like to see this incredibly rendered vocaloid in the same room.”


“More than a few times, I felt like I had been transported to a terrifying, sci-fi dystopia in which citizens had gathered to pay respects to their robotic overlords.” 

Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.co.uk/the-multiverse/2016/04/hatsune-miku-review-japanese-hologram-show/

http://www.radiolab.org/story/kpoparazzi/

Triangles in the Sky

As the very early universe expanded, driving pairs of virtual particle apart, it left patterns in the distribution of matter.
Astronomers are looking for these ‘Non-Gaussianities’ of galaxies and galaxy clusters at opposite ends of the universe. They theorize that the distribution of structure at the largest scales will reveal the mechanisms and geometries of the big bang.