Curiosity Memory Issue, Possibly Caused By Cosmic Rays
I saw this over the weekend on Space.com: The computer problem is related to a glitch in flash memory on the A-side computer caused by corrupted memory files, Cook said. Scientists are still looking...
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NASA’s Proposed Z-2 Spacesuit
Tragically, I only just found out about this through Wired today but it’s still pretty interesting. Apparently, NASA has been redesigning the spacesuit, looking at making one that will function on...
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Alien Communication & More On The Fermi Paradox
I don’t know… maybe it’s because I’m a sci-fi nerd but the more I read about Enrico Fermi’s supposed “paradox” the more I want to call bullshit on it. When discussing the possibility of advanced...
View ArticleSome Rare Good News From the Supreme Court
We finally got some good news from the US Supreme Court today. Considering that the Court has more or less routinely punched enough exceptions into the 4th Amendment to almost make it feel like a...
View ArticleWelcome to the New Site Design
In case you haven’t noticed, we have a new site design to go along with our new podcast. It’s not a radical departure from what there was before, in fact, if you’re looking at it on a desktop browser,...
View ArticleSupplemental – Cheap Energy
Our first supplemental episode. Energy! Taking a break from the reading of A Short History of the Unified Republic of Stars to discuss something that hasn’t been covered much but is key to...
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Behind the Podcast Scenes
So… as I’m sure anyone reading this now knows, I’ve started the Unified Republic of Stars Podcast. Yeah, with a capital “P” because it’s that formal. And, you know what? It’s more awesome than even I...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement Decry Mobile Encryption, Imply Only Perverts Would Want It
In case you missed it, the government is pissing itself over Apple and Google’s announcement that they’re enabling encryption on their devices by default. I’m not going to go into the ins-and-outs of...
View ArticleSupplemental – Communications
The first of two asides to supplement this week’s material. With this supplemental, we discuss how you might go about communicating not just next door but to the next town over and, even, to different...
View ArticleSupplemental – Ship Terms & Navigation In Space
Welcome to part two of this week’s two asides. Unlike the last one that dealt with a topic that was directly related to the last episode, talking about how the former colonies would have communicated...
View ArticleAdding New Story Ideas To the Generator
In this week’s podcast, I mentioned ways in which people could submit new ideas to the Story Generator. Actually setting it up is a bit technical and complex but I’d love to add listener ideas to the...
View ArticlePeople Will Die For Space Tourism… And That’s Okay
I wanted to write about this last week (the week before?) when it originally happened because, between the Antares rocked explosion and the Virgin Galactic debacle, it was a rough week for private...
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My New Obsession: Kerbal Space Program
So here’s how obsessed I am about the game. The gallery below? I just spent thirty minutes selecting the right images, uploading them, adding descriptions, thinking of titles, and then altering the way...
View Article2.7 – Economics & Transportation
This week, we discuss the various methods of transportation around the Colonial Star Cluster. How would you get around? Well… this is a sci-fi world so you’d probably take an interstellar vessel...
View Article2.9 – Computing & Media
Welcome back to the Unified Republic of Stars! This week, we discuss computing and media in the Colonial Star Cluster, what it is how it got there, and what the intersection between the two were....
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Review: Hands On With the 9.7″ iPad Pro
Because I’m significantly more mobile than I used to be (read: I have an office now and travel more to client sites), I thought I’d get myself an iPad Pro on the theory that, when I don’t have my...
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A Follow Up To My iPad Review
Now that I’ve had things installed for a little longer and have actually been able to put it through its paces a little bit more, I thought I’d do a quick followup on my prior review, to let you know...
View ArticleNow With Better Baseball
Rather than talk about the concept of the world and all that blah blah blah… I thought I’d update with some site news! No big concepts today. Some may have noticed that some pages look like exports of...
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Mars Rover Curiosity Launches!
If you've ever seen a launch in Florida, you know how cool this is. The Mars Science Laboratory launched on Friday, and if your weren’t paying attention, you should’ve been. Nicknamed “Curiosity”, the...
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Why Open Source Is Amazing
I don’t talk about the code behind this site very often because, to me, it’s generally less interesting than what it’s used for, namely holding the data for this massive story world. Still, in setting...
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