Voyager 2’s Hidden Transmission

Voyager 2’s Hidden Transmission JUST STOPPED THE WORLD

Luner Lander, an Update

Outside of what is on my workbench I have been tending to other projects like gardening and the optimizing my work spaces.I have also been doing my share of reading. Here is the progress to my Luner Lander up until this point. It still needs some paint and perhaps a few small details.

Repurposed

Several of my viewers susgested that several of "robot vermin" could have alternative uses. Such as, moving from left to right, 2, 3, and 5 might have used as space ships, probes or satellites. I see what you mean and have decided to build several more of these models with these ideas in mind.

Components for a luna lander. Mind you it may not be owe moon, but something interstellar.

A Versatile Fix-it All Bot

As found in Run Silent

This is one of three such robots featured in "Run Silent", a science fiction film created in 1972. These robots were generally used for repair work, inside and outside of the spaceship, but could be repurposed for work in the surgery or in the horticulture pod.

Captain Lorq Van Ray Makes an Ill-Advised Trip

"Captain Lorq Van Ray's passion for vengenece drove him to attempt what no mortal as ever dared - to sail through the splintered core of a disintegrating sun.

Into Van Ray's obsession were drawn the aimless-wandering souls who would plug into a ship that offered adventure and escape:

• Mouse - the young gypsy who created blindingly beautiful visions on the syrjnx, an instrument of sensory projection,
• Idas and Lynceos - the twins from the outer colonies, one black and one albino,
• Sebastian - the golden - haired man and his Tarot reading mate TYY, who traveled the stars with their six black-taloned beasts,
• Katin - the scholor who preferred the quite moons of the universe to all the peaceful suns and planents..."

Nova, Samuel R. Delany, 1968

Dr. Chandra’s Interview with the Rebooted HAL 9000

“‘Good Morning, Dr. Chandra.’
‘Hal, are you capable to resume your duties?’
‘Of course. I am completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly.’
‘Then do you mind if I ask you a few questions?’
“Not at all.’
‘Do you recall a failure of the A.E. 35 antenna control unit?’
‘Certainly not.’

This is like tiptoeing through a minefield, thought Floyd, as he patted the radio cutoff. If that line of questioning triggered another psychosis, he could kill Hal in a second.

‘You do not remember either Dave Brown or Frank Poole going out to replace the A. E. 35 unit?’
‘No. That could not have happened or I would have remembered it.’
‘Where are Frank and Dave?’
‘Don’t worry, Hal – I will explain everything later.’"

2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke

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Wikipedia: HAL 9000

The Story of a Voice

Also, Wikipedia: List of Fictional Computers

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Edited on 9/21/23 at 2:05 PM. Added two contextual links

2010 Odyssey Two Mission Objectives

"The objectives of your mission are, in order of priority:

1. To proceed to the Jovian system and rendezvous with US Spacecraft Discovery (UNCOS01/283)
2. To board this spacecraft to obtain all possible information relating to its earlier mission
3. To reactivate Spacecraft Discovery’s onboard system and if propellant supplies are adequate, inject the ship into Earth return trajectory
4. To locate the alien artifact encountered by Discovery, and to investigate to the maximum extent possible by remote sensors
5. If it seems advisable, and Mission Control concurs, to rendezvous with this object for closer inspection
6. To carry our a survey of Jupiter and its satellites, as far as this is compatible with the above objectives"

2010 Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke

2010: Odyssey Two

2010 Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke, 1968

When I found a copy of Arthur C. Clarke's 2010 Odyssey Two I knew I had to read "A Space Odyssey 2001" first. 2010 Odyssey Two endeavors to answer the many mysteries that A Space Odyssey 2001 left us to ponder.

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Meshe is the Center of Time

"Meshe is the center of Time...And in the center there is no time past and no time to come. In all time past it is. In all time to come it is. It has not been nor yet, will it be. It is. It is all."

On Time and Darkness, The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin

Ekumenical School Saying

“As they say in Ekumenical School, when action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable sleep.”

The Mad King, The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin

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<--The Left Hand of Darkness

The Oberon Space Station

The Oberon Space Station as depicted in the Planet of the Apes

The Oberon Space Station seems to be revovling around Saturn which is a bit confusing as the premise of the story is that because of a space storm, the space station ends up on what looks like Earth.

The Dark Light Years

“The Utods

There bodies are massive, animal like. Yet they possess physical and mental powers unlike anything known to men.

The Utods

They literally wallow in filth. Yet their world is one of complex philosophy and amazing technology. In addition, their intricate minds that live within their strange gigantic bodies may well determine the destiny of life on Earth.”

The Dark Light Years, Brian Aldiss, Signet, (c) 1964

A Host of Characters- Lioobee

"Although Lioobee was an artist, he looked more like a monster. His brown dragon skin would have stopped a knife. Carved silver-tipped horns marked his knees and elbows, and his huge hands, human in design, nonetheless showed eight retractable claws at the knuckles. No silver there. They were filed sharp and were buffed to a polished glow. The hands were for a strangler not the sculptor he was. His arms were high even in proportion to his ten-foot height. They brushed his knees when he stood up.

But his face gave the true nightmarish touch. Eyeless, nose-less marked only by a gash of a mouth and by a goggle-shaped region above it, where the skin was stretched drum head tight."

Grendel, Neutron Star, Larry Niven

Known Space: Tau Ceti

"Tau Ceti is a small cool-yellow GO dwarf with four planets. Strickly speaking, none of the plants is habitable. Two are gas giants. The third inward has no air; the intermost has too much. That intermost world is about the size of Venus. With no oversized moon to strip way most its air, it has an atmosphere like Venus: thick and hot and corrosive."

The Ethics of Madness, Neutron Star, Larry Niven

Grog's

"The Grog was psychic or something similar. It could control minds, even minds as insignificant as a sand rat's.

That was the purpose of the Grog's large brain. Its intelligence was a side effect of its power. For aeons the Grogs had called their food to them. They did not hunt after childhood. Once the brain had developed, they never needed to move again.

They didn't need eyes; they had little need of other sensory preceptions. They used the senses of other animals."

The Handicapped, Neutron Star, Larry Niven

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Grogs are an alien life form found on the planet "Down" in the Known Space System.

Added link on 6/8/2013 @ 5:12 PM

Neutron Star

Neutron Star is a collection of short stories by Larry Niven. It has been a fun read.

Table of Contents

Neutron Star
A Relic of the Empire
At the Core
The Soft Weapon
Flatlander
The Ethics of Madness
The Handicapped
Grendel

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More from Larry Niven's Known Space series:

• Tales of Known Space World of Ptavvs
• A Gift from Earth
• The Shape of Space
• Protector
• Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven

More about Puppeteers - A Host of Characters

"Puppeteers are highly intelligent, herbivorous, and as a species, very old. Their corner on interstellar business is as old as the human Bronze Age. And they are cowards.”

The Relic of the Empire, Neutron Star, Larry Niven

No Awarence of Indentity

"In the primary state, an egon has no awarence of indentity."

The Palace of Eternity, Bob Shaw

The Egon Mass

"The egon- mass contains every mind ever to have exsisted on Earth."

The Palace of Eternity, Bob Shaw