Most conversation at my job revolves around people arguing over opinions. Oh, you like this particular show? Allow me to explain how it's garbage and why you should feel bad about enjoying it. You like this kind of food? It's awful and you're a monster for eating it. You should eat the things I like. It's absolutely exhausting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt A gigawatt is one billion watt. Ugh, sounds like Twitter. >_> “How dare you like something I don’t. You are literally Hitler a toxic human being.”
Not really a fact, but more of a random concept, and I don't know where else on this forum to post it... I've had an idea that there exist these natural, spontaneous "rifts" in spacetime that connect different places and time periods. They'd be like the wormholes of science fiction and theoretical physics, but they'd be scattered around our planet rather than hovering in remote space. It would allow people to travel across time and place without needing magic or advanced technology. For instance, you could have pre-Columbian Maya traveling through one of these rifts to colonize the Late Cretaceous Period, or a 19th century Native American from the Great Plains falling through a rift and ending up in India. You could have so many fun mixtures of people from different time periods and places with those rifts. Anyone seen a story with that sort of premise?
Manifold: Origin by Stephen Baxter has a giant floating rift that scoops up people from Australopithecenes on and mixes them up. So-so book IMO.
The etymology of "etymology", per the Online Etymology Dictionary etymology (n.) late 14c., ethimolegia "facts of the origin and development of a word," from Old French etimologie, ethimologie (14c., Modern French étymologie), from Latin etymologia, from Greek etymologia "analysis of a word to find its true origin," properly "study of the true sense (of a word)," with -logia "study of, a speaking of" (see -logy) + etymon "true sense, original meaning," neuter of etymos "true, real, actual," related to eteos "true," which perhaps is cognate with Sanskrit satyah, Gothic sunjis, Old English soð "true," from a PIE *set- "be stable." Latinized by Cicero as veriloquium.
Not time rifts, but Philip Jose Farmer did this part with his Riverworld series, my favorite SF collection back in the day.
His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman. I was disappointed there was no second movie, but when looking up the spelling of Pullman's name, I saw there was a TV series. Was it any good?
I really liked the books and the movie was decent. I don't think I even knew there was a series. Do the portals open into different times and places though? I rembered there were portals (and a subtle knife), but not what they open onto.
The trailer for the series looks pretty good, maybe better than the movie. Lyra is played by Daphne Keen, who was the little girl in the movie Logan. She was amazing in that. And the show is free on Prime Video on Amazon. Let's see if the first episode grabs me. Nope! "Free with HBO Max membership". Screw you and your bait-and-switch, Amazon!
They opened into different worlds. Parallel worlds, maybe? Been a while since I read the books. I loved the movie. Too bad about the bait and switch tactics. I was looking forward to your report, Xoic.
So was I. I might break down and buy the first episode on YouTube, but then if I like it and want to get Season 1, I end up paying for the first episode twice. They should discount you for any episodes you bought when you get the season. Stupid system, designed to gouge us.
I linked, but a commercially unused means of getting riverboats over shallows and snags or some such. He never made an effort to market it, and it was apparently a little overcomplicated.
Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't notice the difference in color in the print of the original post. It's migraine Sunday and my visual perception isn't what it should be.
This is what is lacking in my life. The absolute concentration to complete a task. Beautiful in it's simplicity.
