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February 15, 2007
More Josef6
Occasional Kesher Talk co-blogger Benjamin Kerstein is still posting his novel online. So far five six chapters are up. It's about a mass delusion. Or is it?
Judith | 02/15/07 at 08:18 AM | Categories: - Around the blogosphere
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now six chapters are up :)
benjamin | February 15, 2007 08:46 PM
In chapter five we learn that the waste products from the plutonium power supply are stored at minus 562 degress Celsius. If Josef6's guys can keep on cooling stuff for 289 degrees after they have removed all the energy from it (a little thing called absolute zero: try any high school physics text) they probably wouldn't need plutonium in the first place, but in any case it seems unnecessarily wasteful. That they apparently do this by means of liquid nitrogen cooling is even more astounding, as nitrogen freezes at -210 degrees Celsius. Clearly their universe is much more than 0.0005 % different from ours even before J6 starts toggling back and forth.
Hint: if you want to write science fiction, try at least to avoid the errors a smart twelve-year-old could spot. Up to then it was merely, well, a bit boring actually, but OK as a first effort I suppose.
In chapter one Benjamin states: "People will never lack the capacity to waste their time". How true. But while I still have the capacity, at this point i have lost the incentive.
WWJ6D? WGAF.
Rob | February 15, 2007 11:02 PM
