Shouldn't everybody responding to this thread say BB&B?
Shouldn't everybody responding to this thread say BB&B?
It's time to close the doors to the Temple of Janus.
There is nothing like it.
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- Finally! The moment Austin has been waiting for these last four years. #heisnotsafe
just got around to finishing it. i'll upgrade the writing from "mediocre" to "good", and the story from "cool" to "awesome". the chemistry is still bad, though. i had to double-check my numbers because he got a lot of really cool nerd stuff exactly right, and a lot more stuff that seems about right even though i don't know enough to say whether it is or not. but he was definitely wrong on his conversion of oxygen to water.
liters of O2 50 L density of O2 1.141 g/mL g of O2 57,050 g MW of O2 32 g/mol mol of O2 1,783 mol mol of O 3,566 mol mol of H2O 3,566 mol MW of H2O 18 g/mol g of H2O 64,181 g density of H2O 1.000 g/mL liters of H2O 64 L
Finished The Martian, and I concur. It was really good.
The trailer referenced in xkcd is here (it looks pretty good, too).
I'm in the middle of the Martian audiobook. Been listening to it going to and from work each day. The voice actor is outstanding. Great story too!
Got it on yalls recommendation. Thanks!
I am reading Under the Black Flag and Pirate Hunter of the Carribean by David Cordingly. If you like nautical history his books on the golden age of piracy are the best.
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I've been working my way through Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon spy novels. Overall, a very good series. Just finished #11 "Portrait of a Spy". Only 3 maybe 4 to go.
Any recommendations on another author in genre?
I've been enjoying Orson Scott Card's "Ender" novels. Classic scifi in the Asimov tradition. Incredible characters too.