Advancements in maritime propulsion tech attempting to breach the cost/efficiency barrier and finally return to the age of sail

It’s the annual Retweet the Edgley Optica for no reason event you’ve all been waiting for!! This year’s impossible aim is 4K retweets. Let’s go!

bare minimum for holding a conversation: peter watts, alastair reynolds, iain m banks, bruce sterling, kim stanley robinson, ursula k le guin, adrian tchaikovsky, neal stephenson, greg bear, carl sagan

*explaining building industrial capacity to an american* okay, so imagine a suburb

cass smell check

There is a deep intellectual current in American politics to always insist that the protestors hurt their cause, even when the movement completely and totally wins the argument.

we NEED to bring back sanatoriums

Soviet spaceflight navigation computers were so cool. This is the Globus INK. Analog orbital gear is peak humanity.

If you want to destroy a city, the United States Air Force is faster, but the American Planning Association is far more effective.

rayne fisher-quann wants me to kill myself

there's no area ruling so this dog tops out at the high-transonic speed range but its performance in a low altitude turning fight would astound you

i really hope we get an industrial design renaissance because i'm sick of owning lifeless objects

man i love capitalism, i love the death of the consistent weekly schedule, i love having my time with my loved ones consist of two exhausted hours after work before they need to go to sleep in time for their next shift

the hunter's march experience #Silksong