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Woot,
Also: I GIVE YOU THIS!
Its one of the Soviet nuclear tests where they closed a burning well head with a underground test. Very cool (and relevant!)
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Looking at world building, Panthalassics struck me as really interesting. Either you have a lolheug ocean world or a world where you’d run into a supercritical layer of water before reaching *normal* water.
The later one would corrode any ship trying to pass it…well…metallic ship anyway.
Funny thing is, say we got a ocean depth of 100 km. There would be a HUGE zone devoid of any oxygen, or very little anyway, probably 80 kilometres of the 100 total. If there was life, it would be like huge gossamer sheets of whatever. The more surface area = moar oxygen. “Regular” life would hold to the top few kilometers, then it would basically be nothing or our jellyfish like friends until the bottom.
Now the bottom would be strange. Down there you’d have high pressure ice and maybe natural fission reactors or something. No sunlight so everything would be chemosynthetic. Say we have humans floating around on the surface, there would be no way of detecting a alien civilization on the bottom unless they were kicking around enough of the bottom to show up on sonar/radar…quarries would do that.
Cities of ice. How about that?
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- Along the shore the cloud waves break,
- The twin suns sink behind the lake,
- The shadows lengthen
- In Carcosa.
- Strange is the night where black stars rise,
- And strange moons circle through the skies,
- But stranger still is
- Lost Carcosa.
- Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
- Where flap the tatters of the King,
- Must die unheard in
- Dim Carcosa.
- Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
- Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
- Shall dry and die in
- Lost Carcosa.
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Don’t think I’ve tried this before but here we go anyway.
Z-Comm: Swastika.
Published in 1988 (Leisure Books – never heard of this outfit) by one Kyle Manning, I would say this is possibly one of the most awesome books to read on a long flight ever. I think this was meant to be the start of a series, but it doesn’t look like the author ever published again which is very unfortunate. What few reviews there are out there are negative, which is a total mischaracterization of this book by people who are apparently incapable of enjoying hilariously over the top blood soaked action novels about killing neo-Nazis.
Anyway.
Z-Commando is a mercenary outfit consisting of Vietnam veterans that specialize in black operations. Now, a county of Idaho (and a honest to god AFB and Minuteman silo complex) have been overrun by fanatical neo-Nazis lead by “Deacon Johncock” (who also tends to ejaculate in his pants when giving speeches; seriously, this is in the book). They threaten to unleash nuclear Armageddon unless the government grants them their “Aryan homeland”.
Oh and they’re funded by the KGB.
So yes. They take over, base themselves in the same town of Ketchum, commit several dozen atrocities and massacres (one near the midpoint of the book involves raping several women in the middle of the street with gun barrels..then pulling the trigger I mean what the fuck Kyle). For some reason the population remains ignorant of this until later. All the initial opposition (Sheriff, etc) is taken to a concentration camp in the mountains with a honest to god gas chamber.
Anyway, the government hires Z-Comm to go in and kill the fuck out of Nazis. They show up undercover blah blah blah, and then proceed to blow shit up (starting with a random pimped out M113 that has nothing to do with the plot what so ever). Eventually they free the prisoners in the concentration camp and lead an uprising against the Nazis. This involves copious amounts of the word ‘man-shredder’ and ‘maggot’; which isn’t something you see a lot in similar novels (I am after all, a sucker for these kinds of books which can be found at any thrift store) at least in the ones I have read.
On a side note, one of the main characters uses a Jati-matic. Now THAT is weird. It’s a pretty obscure Finnish submachine gun that failed trials and was basically a piece of shit. Mind you it looks interesting and I bet at the time there was a lot of interest in it. Also you cocked it with the folding handgrip, why the fuck did they come up with that?
So the Nazis and Johncock retreat to the AFB after escaping from a good old fashioned ass kicking in town. Z-Comm pursues and kills the fuck out of more Nazis. Johncock is chased into the silo complex and gets pwned by a random appearance of shuriken. Unfortunately he left his son in the control room. Said son is bugfuck crazy.
Suddenly Jesus Christ appears. Not shitting you. Jaysus shows up (it’s a very confusing sequence) and for no apparent reason the kid prompty eats his own gun. Also one of the protagonists turns invisible.
The book concludes with one of the Z-Comm members demonstrating how to dodge bullets with his amazing Kung-Fu powers.
Fin.
This book is fucking hysterical and it’s a real goddamn shame the author never published more. If by some freak chance Mr. Manning is alive and reading this, for the love of god get yourself a contract with Baen. I would seriously pay for more books like this.
If you find a copy, get it. Its brilliant.
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American Family Association Pins SeaWorld Death On Lack Of Christianity: ‘Bible Ignored, Trainer Died’
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God damn SaskTel has terrible ping right now.
Also I love how the media is portraying Tilikum is some kind of orca serial killer.
Also: “RT @JimNorton Turns out Tilikium the whale has been involved in two other human deaths. One was a guy who fucked his blowhole. No wonder he hates people.”
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Considering university…Simon Fraser has a really nice Cognitive Science program that I think would be very interesting.
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Use Austrian economists to solve the fuel crisis by pyrolysis.
