![]() ![]() ![]() See also: the Greg Egan construct on Cantor Dust. The Alderson Disk does not satify the Gödel metric. The JVP construct cites the Wikipedia construct citing an alleged astronomer about a posthumous revelation by the Gödel construct, to write as follows. ![]() Dan Alderson was a friend, and would have been very happy to be in a Stross universe. I miss Carl Sagan, but he was (selfishly speaking) merely a co-worker, mentor of friends, and acquaintance. His body dragged him down, bureacrats cast him out of the garden, yet his mind ranged beyond the cosmos that we know. he lost his will to live when JPL wouldn't let him continue to work on missions and trajectories, with a friends reading to him what was on the computer screen. Our last hour together, we discussed the space program we had versus the one that we deserved, and favorite comic books.ĭiabetes notwithstanding, I believe that he died of a broken heart. He loved figuring out real spacecraft trajectories - in his head! - as well as Science Fiction (famously the origin of the Alderson drive in Niven and Pournelle's fiction, and the Alderson Disk, which grew out his high school science fair project). I spent time with him even as diabetes blinded him, then led to amputations. It was he who got me to stop merely visiting LASFS, but become a member. Dan and I were friends, both at JPL and beyond. ![]() I am especially touched by by the Dan Alderson references. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |