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[ K S R ] & Konny Kon:
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#[KSR] #KonnyKon
βΆοΈ πͺ Automagic π show π» playlist on Spotify
βΆοΈ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
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FWIW
Kim Stanley Robinson, of #MarsTrilogy fame, is another well known democratic socialist.
I just finished The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz and liked it a lot. The Kim Stanley Robinson acknowledgement was apt, as there are some pleasant similarities with the Mars books. World building, ideas carried forward, details (while sparing us a few pages about red and green, sorry Sax). But what I loved most was that one of the characters was a sentient earthworm train. Everybody could be any kind of body, a la The Culture but like less weird about it. A good read. #bookstodon #scifi #KSR
@stefani @sharponlooker
No, no. That's Coyote's boulder car driving downhill that slope. π
Image from here: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/12/26/part-7-senzeni-na/
More posts about #KSR's Mars Trilogy in that link above, as well as posts in an enjoyable "I know it all" self-confident style that makes them sound like SciFi, too π.
@PhilStooke
Canals existed on Mars not when people imagined seeing them in the early days of telescopes, but in the 22nd century.
In a strange perturbation of time, as it frequently happens when #SciFi is involved, one of #NASA's Human Exploration of Mars Science Analysis Group (HEM-SAG) proposed landings near crater Pendicton was just 365 km away from the exit of the Soletta Canal, which was burnt into the ground by a huge orbiting mirror made from reflective solar sails.
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@PhilStooke
Maybe #KSR had seen such maps; he had made friends with young scientists studying in Boulder, CO, and calls one of them, Chris McKay, who later went on to work for #NASA, "my Mars guy". That's where he got those areoforming ideas conceived.
The map shows some places in the general area around Ophir Chasma, like the Transverse Highway which becomes the North Ophir Road as it reaches higher ground outside of the chasma.
Maybe mixing reality with #fiction is good for geology? π π
"New results in biology indicate that the #SciFi idea of the multi-generational starship, which is already the only realistic way for humans to cross interstellar distances, will not work, because any closed biological life-support system will be too small to function over the centuries required.
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So at this point, itβs important to point out that the idea of humanity going to the stars is a fantasy and is not going to happen."
#KimStanleyRobinson interview: https://www.terrain.org/2016/interviews/kim-stanley-robinson/
Β«But, truth to tell, ever since the Reagan era, the conservative, or dominant, wing of the Republican party, had been coming to Washington explicitly to destroy the federal government. They had talked about "starving the beast", but flooding would be fine, if it came to that. They were flexible. It was results that counted.Β»
#KimStanleyRobinson in his π π’πππ² πππ π«πππ¬ πππ₯π¨π°, 2005, novel, part of the Science In the City trilogy.
@PhilStooke
In a parallel #SciFi universe, that first map is ~100km away from Libya Station, where residents of Borroughs escaped on foot after the dike built around it was breached by the Reds and the city flooded and submerged.
More about Borroughs:
https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/burroughs
Now less than an hour to summer solstice for #Perseverance, although it's going to be night in Jezero Crater when it happens.
However, for those celebrating the solstice on the peak sanctuary of Olympus Mons (an ancient Minoan custom that's now common on Mars, too π ), it will be a sunny morning, with temperatures ranging (checks NASA's Mars Meteo siteβ¦, nope, still dead) above 0Β°C, appropriate for Minoan dressing customs that want women bare-breasted and men almost naked.
Imagination, planetary romance, turbulent times, and governance.
Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson.
Kim Stanley Robinson on his Mars Trilogy:
@andrealuck
That place became a huge island after Mars got areoformed in #KimStanleyRobinson's #GreenMars .
The map shows a number of places from the #MarsTrilogy, the canal that filled Hellas Planitia with water from the north, and the trip that Sax and Coyote took together to see the making of the canal by the "soletta", the space lens that burnt rock.
The first colonization of Mars occurred, in #KSR's fiction, in 2026.
Royal Enfield gaat import in Duitsland zelf doen http://motornieu.ws/TK9L27 #Motorbranche #importeur #KSR
Hiroko said, βNet gain in beauty.β
Arkady said, βNet gain in freedom.β
And then they all stared at Ann. [...] and all she could do was point a shaking finger at them and say, βMars. Mars. Mars.β
#KimStanleyRobinson, Green Mars.
MCZ_LEFT, Sol: 416
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/@65dBnoise
#Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #Space #SciFi #KSR #GreenMars
@stim3on
I mean, if this sounds less scientific than our usual theme here, the movie could be #KSR's Red Mars. He's been accused of being too obsessed with science, so all those first geologists on Mars, Ann Clayborne, Simon Frazier, Phyllis Boyle and the rest, would make the movie an excellent Introduction to Planetary Geology 101. Geology can be fun too, I guess π π
#ministere_du_futur #ksr
Oxford ministry of the future c'est exactement ce dont j'ai besoin en ce moment. https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/and-more/hertford-2030/oxford-ministry-for-the-future
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