Oh yeah… the poet’s house was dope as fuck.
I would love a series about an “Interplanetary University” that had its campus setup across several dozen planets using Farcasters. That would be an interesting setting in the Hyperion universe.
It was a bit of “handwave-ium” and sentient AI. Here’s the Wiki for the series if you want to compare your concept…
Here’s an article about the Farcasters themselves and here’s the article about the World Web that AI and humanity ran with them.
I love the Farcaster network of the World Web from Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos (for anyone who hasnt read the books, they’re essentially frameless stargates that are always on). Such a cool concept of being able to build a series of them linking the main commercial streets of the biggest cities on different planets together; thus making one gigantic and near endless market across hundreds of worlds… and anyone can just walk from one planet to another across hundreds or thousands of light years.
What I really like about that book series though is that the Farcasters are not the only means of FTL… and that there are sound reasons to use another method over them OR even to oppose your planet getting connected to the Farcaster network. Just seriously good world building.
Computer, show me the warp core!
I’m sure Apple will let everyone know that we’re just holding the phone wrong.
(are they still clergy if they aren’t Catholic?)
Yep, it’s a catch-all term. You can also refer to an Imam or Rabbi as a member of that religion’s clergy.
You’re not my real dad, DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!
Ugh… just bought some new Bluetooth headphones and my god i wish they’d let these little chargers just die already.
Me too! Just replaced my eight year old (and beat to crap) Chromebook with a corporate hand-me-down laptop that I stole got when they ordered new laptops! Just played around with both Mint and Ubuntu for a couple weeks and I’ve seriously loved it.
Lol. Fixed.
I just got back to the states, we also went to that museum but didn’t get the amount of time I’d have liked for the visit. It was family vacation; I was negotiating with like seven other people for what we saw and for how long. Next year, I’ll be back in the UK for about a week (sadly, it’ll be mostly just London) and have already carved out plans for a day trip out to York just for the Railway Museum.
No body:
This Owl: “GLORY TO YOUR HOUSE! TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE!!!”
Oh god… and Floridians are just dumb enough to vote him into statewide office.
Well, you see, he was the governor… one of the priorities while being the governor of New York State is to hate New York City.
Green bean casserole.
A Buick Roadmaster Estate Master…thing cornered like an ocean liner… floor it and like in fifteen minutes we’d be doing 60 mph. Every ten minutes we’d have to get out and pledge the sides… because of the ‘wooden’ sides.
Just switched to Linux for my daily driver laptop!
To be fair… the bar is far more fun than the grocery store.
Hey everybody! Get a look at Money Bags over here being able to afford to go to the dentist!
(kidding, low key jealous… please marry me so I can have benefits/health coverage)
Funny thing is that, while a similar principle, they’re safer and more ethical than the Star Trek “suicide booth” transporters.