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Want to read: The road not taken
“The Road Not Taken” is a science fiction short story by American writer Harry Turtledove, set in 2039, in which he presents a fictitious account of a first encounter between humanity and an alien race, the Roxolani.
Recommended by Ben
It’s a first contact story that suggests most species in the galaxy develop an anti-gravity/ftl technology incredibly early, and so they end up colonizing the stars without ever developing beyond 15th century tech
https://kottke.org/19/06/the-biggest-nonmilitary-effort-in-the-history-of-human-civilization
Weaving computer memory out of wire for the moon mission!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii
Spying with knitting!
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We Could Build a Skyhook Now
Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources. A more efficient way to get there is a Skyhook (or Spacetether), an ever rotating cable with a counter weight, that catapults spaceships from earth orbit into the depths of space.
Apparently we have the technical knowledge to build a skyhook today??? Can we get on that?
As a sci-fi writer I feel some distress that I was born too soon to see real space exploration. I hope to see advances in my lifetime.
I have to chuckle because of course I chose a space elevator (which is not currently technically feasible) for my (on hold) space opera. I needed it for plot reasons 🤷♀️