Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific

http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8144

In 1928, the late Francis Wayland Thurston published a scandalous manuscript in purport of warning the world of a global conspiracy of occultists. Among the documents he gathered to support his thesis was the personal account of a sailor by the name of Gustaf Johansen, describing an encounter with an extraordinary island. Johansen`s descriptions of his adventures upon the island are fantastic, and are often considered the most enigmatic (and therefore the highlight) of Thurston`s collection of documents.
We contend that all of the credible phenomena which Johansen described may be explained as being the observable consequences of a localized bubble of spacetime curvature. Many of his most incomprehensible statements (involving the geometry of the architecture, and variability of the location of the horizon) can therefore be said to have a unified underlying cause.
We propose a simplified example of such a geometry, and show using numerical computation that Johansen`s descriptions were, for the most part, not simply the ravings of a lunatic. Rather, they are the nontechnical observations of an intelligent man who did not understand how to describe what he was seeing. Conversely, it seems to us improbable that Johansen should have unwittingly given such a precise description of the consequences of spacetime curvature, if the details of this story were merely the dregs of some half remembered fever dream.
We calculate the type of matter which would be required to generate such exotic spacetime curvature. Unfortunately, we determine that the required matter is quite unphysical, and possess a nature which is entirely alien to all of the experiences of human science. Indeed, any civilization with mastery over such matter would be able to construct warp drives, cloaking devices, and other exotic geometries required to conveniently travel through the cosmos.
 

stephenk

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i want to call my neo-balearic new age synthscape album 'possible bubbles of spacetime curvature in the south pacific'
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Nice one, HMG! Where did you find this? I saw it last week on the H.P.Podcraft forums, was gonna post it here but didn't get round to it. It's a pretty neat bit of work.
 
Nice one, HMG! Where did you find this? I saw it last week on the H.P.Podcraft forums, was gonna post it here but didn't get round to it. It's a pretty neat bit of work.

On the Stross blog http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/10/context-is-everything.html

The eco thread on there has some interesting contributions in the comments if you can be bothered to trawl through - Dark Mountain, I'd never come across that before
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/10/context-is-everything.html

which led me to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Domination

and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impalement

Stross does sometime annoy me though, with this kind of thing
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which was over Christopher Priest dissing him thus ""Stross writes like an internet puppy: energetically, egotistically, sometimes amusingly, sometimes affectingly, but always irritatingly, and goes on being energetic and egotistical and amusing for far too long," he continued. "You wait nervously for the unattractive exhaustion which will lead to a piss-soaked carpet.""

I cannot abide all that has lolcats in ur shit shit, Christopher Priest is right.
 
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droid

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Still can't fault Accelerando though. The greatest bit of singularity sci-fi from the last decade...
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Haha, that photo makes him look Neil Stephenson might look if he spent all his time stuffing himself with Pringles while surfing 4chan. Which is pretty much exactly how he (Stross) comes across in his writing (well, as far as I can tell from the book droid recommended me, which was kind of terrible and awesome in equal measure).

I guess the Cthulhu/Lolcats x-over was bound to happen eventually: http://lolthulhu.com/ - have to confess to a guilty fondness for some of these gags. "O R'lyeh? Ya R'lyeh" etc. etc.

Droid, you seen this btw:
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It purports to be a short silent animation of 'The Other Gods' made in the '20s and recently 'discovered' and 'restored' by a modern animation studio (who of course actually made it a few years ago). Pretty cool though. There's a wicked b/w psychedelic sequence that I think would make a brilliant basis for some visuals to accompany, I dunno, some really twisted darkside d'n'b or summat like that.
 
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36 Billion Megaton Natural Fission Explosion may have rocked Mars 1 billion years ago

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/02/wow.html

Evidence exists that a large natural nuclear reactor formed and operated on Mars in the northern Mare Acidalium region of Mars. However, unlike its terrestrial analogs this natural nuclear reactor was apparently much larger, bred 233U off of thorium, and apparently underwent explosive disassembly, ejecting large amounts of radioactive material over Mars' surface.

Mr Tea to thread - it's like the puny Earthling Oklo reactor, but MARTIAN
 
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