Sprog is the cat we all know and love
I've asked myself: 'will he make the move?'
Sprog's poems make life a little more fun
Hard to accept this joy might be done
Signs of life are a blessing from above!
This is an interesting fact, related to Titan, enclosure may not have been instantaneous because they were 90 minutes into the dive. Based on all the information I know it took at least several hours to reach Titanic death. So it's possible these folks didn't die instantaneously, and frankly speaking more information is not helpful at this point
Yeah I know about those Interdictor cruisers from the EU, that was my second idea I also mentioned: e.g. generating gravity wells so that you can't jump to hyperspace. But I believe that only ships of the size of an ISD could have such components. And as such only the militaristic empire in my setting would be able to get a hold on that.
This is an intrinsic functionality of an implausible science-like device that A) hyperspace is a 'speed' you can achieve and B) gravity wells affect their behavior.
I'm saying all that to say this: when it comes to scifi, your technology doesn't have to be 100% factual, logical, plausible. Engage w/ their emotions - make them feel something.
Ooh - workshopping a scifi story? My time to shine!
Check out how the Star Wars EU handled this in the Thrawn series (Hint: Interdictor cruisers)
Tractor beams - your friend and mine
Think of every way other people have done this and ask yourself - "how could it be different?"
Plausible is fun but pleasure is better - people need a story they can engage with and will forgive all kinds of logical fallacies if you've engaged with their emotions sufficiently.
Let’s understand that Reddit has spent over a decade enjoying its status as a world-leading platform while kicking the ‘we’ll figure out how to monetize later’ can down the road. Along the way, some important social questions have arrived and Reddit is still failing to show leadership in this matter. Let me explain:
So that’s what Reddit is supposed to do as a ‘platform.’ What about Reddit as a ‘company?’ Sadly, boardroom shenanigans have pursued Reddit throughout its entire lifecycle. Reddit lost the public-spirited people like Aaron Swartz, and gained trolls, hate groups, and the soap opera that was the Ellen Pao debacle. As Will Durant said: ‘A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within.’
Actions this year by Reddit have pushed it much farther down the path of ‘less user-oriented.’ Worse, public statements and private actions by the company leave nothing to doubt when it comes to their intentions. “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,” Steve Huffman the CEO of Reddit, wrote in a recent AMA.
Spez' decisions have ripped the guts out of Reddit's understood social identity and community intent. Those public statements and private actions by the company I mentioned earlier? They aren’t there to make Reddit a more human-centered place. Monetizing API use won’t increase Reddit’s stature as a ‘a safe space for all viewpoints.’ Like when managers decided to launch the Challenger space shuttle, “the concerns about the O-rings that ultimately led to the explosion were buried in a vast sea of thousands of other decisions … leading up to the ill-fated launch.”
Risks don’t rely on your perspective for existence. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away,” as Philip K. Dick famously said. This recent Reddit move to monetize APIs creates major cracks in its foundations of digital altruism and human-centered behavior. As I said last year with Twitter: “Twitter has every chance to prove to us that it can be a safe, responsible place for us to interact with our readers if they want to. In the meantime, it’s getting too weird around here. I’m mustering at the life boat station now, in case we must abandon ship.”