50 Watts. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Virginia Woolf - Words fail me - 29 April 1937 - BBC. Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris – review. Sometimes Virginia Woolf writes so exquisitely well.
In Between the Acts, Giles arrives home from work in the city and finds a car at the door, which tells him there are visitors to lunch. "The ghost of convention rose to the surface, as a blush or a tear rises to the surface at the pressure of emotion; so the car touched his training. He must change. " That's so characteristic in its delicate evanescence – there's not a solid word in there (except for the dread car). Everything floats, and yet in its floating is precise. And sometimes she writes so heavily, in such laboured sentences. Katherine Mansfield's "At the Bay" begins with dawn over the sea, too. Hermione Lee's marvellously rich 1996 biography records in detail Woolf's lifelong, crippling sensitivity to judgment of her work, the easy collapse of her writing authority, a pattern of breakdown around publication time.
The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. The International Virginia Woolf Society. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Virginia Woolf Monk's House photograph album (MH-2): Monk's House (MS Thr 559): Guide. New media. Narrative. Transhuman/futurism. To Singularity, or Not To Singularity? 3-D Starmaps:Actual Maps. In some cases distance data was tweaked when different catalogs assigned inconsistent distances to objects that are actually associated.
"Beacon” stars are bright stars with absolute magnitudes of zero or less. “Pre-supernova” stars are commonly believed by astronomers to be on the verge of exploding Real Soon Now (i.e., anytime from one million years from now to tomorrow). “Collider” is Gliese 710. There is a fair chance it will collide with our solar system in approximately 1.4 million years, or at least pass by close enough to initiate a deadly hail of comets. The “local bubble” is an area of reduced density in the interstellar medium, which is bad news for Bussard Ramjet spacecraft.
Only the Sunward half of the galaxy was plotted due to a lack of data for objects on the far side. Blue lines measure angles and distances from the galactic core. Distances are in light-years instead of parsecs, which will please science fiction writers and annoy astronomers. Atomic Rockets. Your imagination has been captured by the roaring rockets from Heinlein's SPACE CADET or the Polaris from TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET.
But are such rockets possible? How does one go about defining the performance of these atomic-powered cruisers? This document gives some hints and equations that will allow back-of-the-envelope calculations on such matters. Though horribly simplistic, they are far better than just making up your figures. This site was mainly intended for science fiction authors who wanted a little scientific accuracy so they can write SF "the way God and Heinlein intended" (Arlan Andrews's Law). The engine and the torchship pages explain how easily do some of the calculations using Nomograms. .
While this site originally focused on rocketry equations, as you can see it has grown to encompass other topics of interest to SF authors and game designers. Disruptive technology - подрывные технологии. MONSTER BRAINS.