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  • Book: Before the Big Bang

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Sun Dec 7 22:38:13 2025
    I re-read Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, impressed yet again by his
    research that went into his science fiction. Amazon thought I should
    read a book titled "Before the Big Bang: The prehistory of our
    Universe", by Brian Clegg.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6098430-before-the-big-bang

    I was expecting a read on cosmological theory, instead the first one
    third is a well-researched walk through the history of cosmology in
    ancient mythologies. Quite unexpected and very entertaining.

    I'll tell you how the rest of the book goes when I'm done.





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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Dec 8 10:04:00 2025
    Hello pF!

    ** On Sunday 07.12.25 - 22:38, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All:

    I re-read Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, impressed yet again by his research that went into his science fiction. [...]

    It's quite an epic at over 800p

    Have you seen the 1-season run of Moonhaven? Also.. quite an
    imagining following the aftermath "magic" [which isn't really
    explained] of some autoAI that can produce an earth-like
    environment on the moon. But the story kinda focuses on the discord/differences of moonies vs earthies.

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  • From Mortar M.@21:2/101 to Ogg on Tue Dec 9 14:13:00 2025
    Re: book: seveneves
    By: Ogg to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Dec 08 2025 10:04:00

    Have you seen the 1-season run of Moonhaven? Also.. quite an imagining following the aftermath "magic" [which isn't really explained] of some autoAI that can produce an earth-like environment on the moon.

    Probably the same unknown unobtainium substance used to create stuff in Tron: Ares.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ogg on Thu Dec 11 08:53:35 2025
    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Have you seen the 1-season run of Moonhaven? Also.. quite an
    imagining following the aftermath "magic" [which isn't really
    explained] of some autoAI that can produce an earth-like
    environment on the moon. But the story kinda focuses on the discord/differences of moonies vs earthies.

    No, but it looks interesting - and it's on Amazon Prime. I'll have to
    take a look. Thanks for the pointer!





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