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“Society has to evolve in order for humankind to evolve…otherwise we’re just dependent on outliers, on the occasional outstanding person of genius or conscience, to bring us along. And even then, sometimes the occasional person of genius doesn’t have much conscience…or the occasional person of conscience doesn’t have much genius.”
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Nanotech web: Graphene optoelectronics goes flexible
Fuzzy Funk was one of the original Zonons that came together to form a defense against the ViPrey and the Power That Is Not within the Anii networml to protect the cyphron and zonon populace. Most cyphrons were defenseless against the ViPrey skinks because they knew not how to fight them. There seemed to be two types of ViPrey…. The regular ViPrey that had no enhanced powers (and they were the ones who are mostly helpful to cyphrons); and those that looked like monster skinks and different variations as well. The monster skinks had enhanced powers that would allow them to have outer body experiences, whereas they could transmit a shadowy likeness of themselves out into a geonetric location within a networml and steal cyphron souls. Their actual physical presence would create a stench of hydrogen sulfide gas when they gathered in mass…. A monster skink would also have the strength of a dimming star making it impossible for anyone to defeat them. All, but one…. Fuzzy Funk! The special power of a dimming star would be that of gravitational pull.
Fuzzy was the only Zonon who could fight hand to hand combat with any ViPrey beast and defeat them. He was the only one that they feared in addition to Diamond Blade. Diamond Blade is a teacher within the CyPhron Academy. She also moonlights as a renegade mercenary for CiPher Fire – the legendary stealth cypheron – led by Black Angus. Black Angus is also a Zonon and he is a material science engineer with specialization in dark matter and dark energy. He is secretly known to be a dark matter “blacksmith” for the Nano-Tera. His weaponry and defense gear are known for their tremendous success against the monster ViPrey beasts and the Power That is Not.
In addition to the core of CiPher Fire, there is Rahman. He is their primary networml navigator and secondary code runner. His aircraft of choice is the Veloraptor…. It may not be the fastest Realm class aircraft, but it is the swiftest, most powerful, maneuverable, and stealthy aircraft in existence within the Realm. Rahman has the moves that will make a monster skink pause and think…… if there is such a thing…
Fuzzy Funk had a long successful history with the Anii networml before he moved to the Reality. When he was removed from his position as lead defense minister within the Reality networml of CyPhron Defense, he placed himself into self-exile and created a new cypheron called Virtual-X. He has not been seen since, but Virtual-X is associated with him and this reconnaissance cypheron represents his thinking. The members of this cypheron are on the run, but are very popular within the Reality. They represent that which is good and great and pose a threat to the current players who are wreaking havoc within the Reality.
Fuzzy’s engineering genius and ability to be both mystical and practical was very important in the development of the Ghost Code…… The Ghost Code is central to powering the networml portals… Networml portals are the gateways to and from the infinite networmls of the Realm. Fuzzy is the ultimate leader – he will not lead where he has not followed, and he will always sacrifice himself before he risks the lives of others….. Most important of all, he will find a way to succeed!!!!! His war cry is widely known!!!!
E-e-e-Y-a-a-a-h! E-e-e-Y-a-a-a-h! E-e-e-Y-a-a-a-h! &n bsp; Encoda Moda!
Fuzzy is closely associated also with Betelhem, the current ranking CyPhron CyPher Guardian. There can only be one CiPher Guardian to reign at a time….. Betelhem is the only cyphron who can summon the Remnant… Betelhem is a former code runner who developed the Nano Tera code. It is the code that is protecting the Remnant along with CiPher Fire. No one has broken or come near to deciphering the Nano Tera. It is the hope of the Hordes of BoLoob and the Power That Is Not to capture Betelhem in order to steal the Remnant. Currently the Remnant location is not known to anyone for it became lost during the Zonon Lockdown.
One last thing…. There are two Fuzzy Funk characters….. When Fuzzy Funk became self-exiled, he became the Legend of Fuzzy Funk. Black Angus and then he then mentored a younger CyPhron to succeed him. That apprentice is now known as Fuzzy Funk. The saga continues……
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Altering the course of climate change is a task that will take decades. It will require innovative new technologies and overhauls of the world’s energy, agricultural, and transportation infrastructure. We don’t suggest that you can reverse the warming trend over the next four years, or even that you will be able to significantly decrease carbon dioxide emissions. But with the help of the world’s best economic, technical, and scientific minds, you can formulate a policy that will show the nation—and the world—how we can begin to make the changes necessary to ensure that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere stabilizes at a safe level. Indeed, it is critical that you do so.
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MIT Technology Review: Dear Mr. President: Time to Deal with Climate Change
Where are openings for Employment in Science Companies in Washington DC Metro area?
List your 7 favorite #scifi movies in any order, with the hashtag #scifitop7 and let’s see what happens! I’m making it 7 because 5 seems too short but 10 won’t fit under the character limit…
My #scifitop7:Alien; The Thing(1982); Blade Runner; Gattaca; Eternal Sunshine/Spotless Mind; 28 Days Later; 2001: A Space Odyssey
In a little while, we’ll continue the hashtag with another scifi category, like movies or books.
Tell us your favorites!
PW
...sadly, the effects of cosmic rays are not superpowers and spandex tights:
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For the future of manned spaceflight, we have yet another problem to solve...
Daily Mail:
Space travel under threat as scientists find cosmic radiation could cause Alzheimer's in astronauts
Hopefully the folks who run this page will turn it into a book! Its pretty awesome to see all these folks of color working in animaton though! LINK
(RRR) NoWhere Men issues 1 & 2
Writer: Eric Stephenson
Art: Nate Bellegarde & Jordie Bellaire
Publisher: Image Comics
"Science is the new rock and roll." Or what would happen if three of the four Beatles and Jim Hendrix decided to reshape the world with science instead of music. That is the impression I got from NoWhere men originally and with high hopes I picked up a copy of issue 1. Here we're introduced to the main characters Emerson Strange, Dade Ellis, Simon Grimshaw and Thomas Walker who got together and formed World Corps, which propelled them to rock star status on the world stage. I love the way Stephenson uses little articles in the back of the story to create the notion that these men could just as easily be on the cover of rolling stone as they could popular science. What I don't particularly like is the fact that I really am not sure where the story's going and maybe that is by design but it feels like there are things that we should know and don't. A perfect example of this is a scene in, which the group is talking about the morals and ethics of their scientific ventures and then we are introduced to a whole new group of characters almost out of nowhere. Which brings me to my next issue with the story, we are introduced to the characters in the space station we aren't given any real reason to care about. Sure there is a possible romance blooming somewhere in there, but other than that if these people died I couldn't see why that would matter and that is a key element of storytelling in my eyes. Maybe I have to keep reading to gain that sense of connection with the characters but I don't know if I'll be around long enough to get there. On the plus side I'm a sucker for superscience and I like Stephensons notion to turn into pop culture. The Art by the Bellegrade and Bellaire does a really good job at setting the feel for the comic, everything is clean and and the use of colors do a good job at maintaining a Sci-fi pop culture look. This is Comic gets 3 R's out of 5.
So, for some years I wrote STAR TREK fiction for POCKET BOOKS.
It was great fun and I learned, really, how to be a novelist in that time working with and getting advice from some of the best writers and editors in the business.
For various reasons I stopped writing STAR TREK stuff (though I don't rule out a return; there are lots of stories to tell in that universe) and, in fact, science fiction altogether.
I got into Urban Fantasy and Crime writing and, really, never looked back.
But, recently, I've been feeling the scifi bug biting me again. More and more of the stories that have come to me have been science fiction or, even better, some sort of mash-up of scifi and fantasy.
In looking over my work I realized I'd written a couple of stories for anthologies that were set in the same universe- the one where humanity is at war with brutal alien race we call the Mercanti.
This was my stab at so-called "SPACE OPERA", the genre that includes STAR TREK, ROBOTECH, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, STAR BLAZERS and lots more. One of the only drawbacks of writing tie-in fiction (and there aren't many) is that you ave to stick closely to what has been established by the original creators of whatever universe you're working in.
If you LOVE that universe, this is minor because, as a fan, you know it inside and out. But, SOMETIMES, there are stories you just can't tell.
FRINGE SPACE isn't exactly my version of STAR TREK. There is no Federation; there are no alien species (no intelligent ones anyway) except the Mercanti and they are trying to kill us.
But, if you like my STAR TREK work, you will find yourself very much at home in FRINGE SPACE.
The first two FRINGE SPACE stories are available in these anthologies for now if you can't wait (and want to read some other REALLY good stories).
SPACE GRUNTS - Truth Metric (Fringe Space #1)
WORDS TO MUSIC - Thanks to Captain Go (Fringe Space #2)
But I will be releasing them as individual yarns over the next few weeks.
You can read #3, FINA SILENTO, now with no problem because the stories do not connect directly.
Seller Text
Fringe Space is Geoffrey Thorne's galaxy-spanning tale of humanity's first contact with a REAL alien species, the MERCANTI, and the often brutal and bloody events that follow.
The Mercanti are truly alien and seem to have one goal: expand and kill anything that in any way blocks that expansion. Humanity's far-spanning civilization is in their way and we're not stepping aside for the Mercanti.
Told from various points of view, FRINGE SPACE is a space opera of galactic proportions that also manages to be personal and very very human.
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FINA SILENTO (FRINGE SPACE #3)
It's the long dark night of the soul for APEX's newly minted First Engineer. Can Cimarron Bell's genetically enhanced mind take the pressure or will the Construct crack?
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This blog is open to critique: you can list it, and I'll post it (anonymous, misspelled or otherwise). I really don't have to agree with you, but I do sensor abusive insults and advertisements. That is how we all learn: that is what a rational, thinking species does.
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were much longer and far more detailed than our current 90-minute infomercial reality shows by comparison. Sorry for the rant, but this massive, national "dumb down" cannot continue and we resemble a democratic republic for very much longer.
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One cubic centimeter of aerographite weighs just 0.2 milligrams, which is four times lighter than the previous record holder, 5,000 times less dense than water, and six times lighter than air. Aerographite is so light that it is difficult to work with it in a normal lab. Any small movement in the lab can create winds that blow the material around.
Euro News Sci-Tech: Lighter-than-air material discovered
There is a stunning review of The Switch featured in The Spelman Messenger! I'm so, so hyped! The reviews are right after an interview with none other than Oprah Winfrey. God is good.
The Switch was originally published by Mocha Memoirs Press, but I republished books I & II together as the Switch II: Clockwork. Here's sample and the link:
The Switch II: Clockwork
(Including “The Switch I”)
by Valjeanne Jeffers
(CreateSpace Independent
Publishing)
The future, according to
author Valjeanne Jeffers,
C’84, consists of a world
filled with futuristic transportation
pods that shoot across
town on compressed air and
are self-cleaning, as well as
mechanical hover crafts that
whisk you to your door...
Purchase The Switch and my other titles at my site
Eljay's Used Books Pittsburgh PA
The Wild Fig Lexington KY
The Nubian Bookstore Morrow GA
Cover art and design for The Switch II: Clockwork by Quinton Veal.
Author Jemir Johnson has been working on his crime fiction series
for a good while. He first did 5 shots in 2007 and his upcoming
collection is going to be even better.
I'm proud to be a part of this series and here's the logo
that we came up with to introduce the movement
of this genre to you.
Although shrouded in secret for now...
it will be well worth the wait, with
all the bells and whistles that one came muster.
As a brief flash back, here's a link to 5 shots.
Last night (other than fiscal cliff theatrics) was the 150th anniversary, or sesquicentennial, of that tradition; today the same for the Emancipation Proclamation.
It formed the world George Washington Carver would enter a year later: From 1915 to 1923, Carver concentrated on researching and experimenting with new uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans, pecans, and other crops, as well as having his assistants research and compile existing uses. This work, and especially his speaking to a national conference of the Peanut Growers Association in 1920 and in testimony before Congress in 1921 to support passage of a tariff on imported peanuts, brought him wide publicity and increasing renown. In these years, he became one of the most well-known African Americans of his time. (Wikipedia)
It enabled Edward Alexander Bouchet to enter Yale in 1870, complete his dissertation in geometrical optics in 1876 becoming the first African American to earn a PhD in physics and the sixth American at that time to do so (see link at Edward's name).
There are many more that I could name, many names of note since. They exist because of an innate curiosity of the world around them, and an opportunity courageously presented; a freedom of simply being counted as part of humanity extended: to learn about it.
It was, and is, a world worth creating.
Hmm: ...my 1,013th posting for this blog, on 01/01/2013. Interesting.
National Society of Black Physicists:
NSBP Member Stephon Alexander Wins 2013 Edward Bouchet Award
NSBP Member Hakeem Oluseyi selected to be a TED Global 2012 Fellow
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Emancipation Proclamation anniversary: Watch Night ceremony held at National Archives
National Archives: The Emancipation Proclamation