/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2600692

And she was the only posthuman. A part of the story is how nostalgia for the future becomes nostalgia for the past, for the luddite morons ruin our perfect Diamond Age.

Everyone is left with a feeling that the second half of our century was the ceiling, a glittery lurid era that no-one would ever reach again, an asymptote touch by a hyperbola.

Same with her: She was the first posthuman, she turned a tennis ball inside out with no holes, cuts, incisions, or self-intersecting materials. How? Nobody really knew. All the posthumans that came later all tried and failed. She was, too, the "ceiling" for posthumanity, at least for a few million years, and nobody really knew how she was a posthuman.

>>2137915

It was the other way around:

Norstrilia:
>Fuck yeah we're richer than the motherfucking archailects

Instrumentality:
>Want to buy our stuff?

Norstrilia:
>HELL NO. *raise taxes by twenty million percent* that will prevent us good noble men from leading anything but a simple life ghurr durr!

Dearest,

Can you judge the scientific accuracy of this bit? You know what they say, "If the science doesn't click, the plot has to change".


Such were the Robert-Forward planets, circling Alpha Centauri Alpha with an uneasy stealth.
They were microjovian worlds, orbiting each other around a common barycenter, so close that the two had been bent out of shape, egg-shaped worlds tip to tip, so close that they exchanged gases, so close that upward-downward waterfalls of superfluid Helium rose in columns from one world and rained down on the pole of the other, entire oceans of methane shared between the two. Two worlds, a single atmosphere, storms forming in one and sliding into the other.
Such were the Robert-Forward planets, Robert and Forward, two blue microjovians, circling their sun undetected. They were too far away, too small, too lightweight: Therefore they reflected little to no light and imparted little pull on the star, but at the same time they were close enough not to get pulled out of orbit by Alpha Centauri B.