Richard Penn, SciFi Author 🇨🇦 🇬🇧

Author of near future sci-fi set in the solar system. 🇨🇦30y 🇬🇧now. Cancer patient. Atheist, secularist, liberal, bloke.

[Richard Penn, SciFi Author 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 @RichardFPenn]

In my fiction, space is settled by enterprising engineers, without radical new science.
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@ProfBrianCox There's nothing political about these things, they're just guys who like to fight police officers. No placards, no demands. Just exploiting the situation.

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@mmealling It's the NASA culture of overtraining and over-rehearsal, designed to ensure every person in space supports a thousand jobs at home.

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@John_Gardi G7 or its variants was always conceived as the core group of civilized countries. It's right to exclude the USA from that.

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@SpaceMoh @unknownsymmetry @AliKhorshidi94 @fazadotir @NASA @timmermansr @spaceagenda @SpaceX @elonmusk @hamed_hamedian Wow! Nailed the landing. Practice makes perfect, I guess.

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@AwesomeAstroPod Also, there don't seem to be proper equal-volume joints on the suits. If they lose pressure, the people will be splayed out like starfish, unable to do anything. Suits just for show?

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@SkinnerPm Ed McBain forever!

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@unrocket Thanks Paul, that is great to hear. Please post anything you find controversial!

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@Nick_Stevens_Gr Usually, big ships have low thrust relative to the mass of the ship.

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@exploreplanets @astromonocyte There can be no sensation where there is no life. You'd be dead in milliseconds, feeling nothing.

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@SimeonKoning @nyrath Apart from Casimir, which is a myth, those are all anti-particle effects, i.e. opposite charge, not opposite mass.

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@ToughSf @nyrath Great painting! Zero to wicked in crazy seconds.

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@OkieSpaceQueen Seems to me that the test siren is also a test of the dog, which he's passing with flying colours. I hope someone gave him a toy.

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@_Ben_in_space A fool and his money are easily parted - P T Barnum

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@SimeonKoning @nyrath Since "negative energy" is entirely fictional, and no theory predicts it should exist, I can't see it's very important. Any unobtainium is a show-stopper; lots of unobtainium is no more so.

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@qikipedia Throughout the 1812 war, you get the impression that neither side really had their heart in it.

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@NASAHubble And yet the next big space telescope, if it ever flies, is deliberately being placed where no servicing mission can reach it. #JWST

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@virgingalactic @eventexco @UnderArmour In zero gravity, there is no "vertical."

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@shl That's like the gig economy, only there's no job.

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@rboyle31 deskjockeys

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@ebpetroff Swords at dawn