Tag: science
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Crush Depth 11: New Chapters 1-17
As I mentioned in the last blog update (they all can be found at the bottom of the page here) I went back and rewrote all 40,000+ words in the last few weeks. Here’s the new version: As you can see it’s a very different book based on the same concept. I’m leaning into some…
Ryan Patrick
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The Black Knight
Post on on one of my favorite conspiracy theories, the Black Knight satellite! It’ll play a huge role in the sequel to The Martian Incident, The Saturn Anomaly. For the uninitiated, the Black Knight is supposedly a 13,000-year-old spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin in a nondecaying polar orbit that emits a repeating signal. The existence of…
Ryan Patrick
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Types of Rockets
Like my posts in May and June about orbits and remote sensing respectively, this is a 100-level overview on the different kinds of rockets and how they can be used in sci-fi writing. Note that I’m only going to go through the four primary methods for a rocket to get out of a gravity well,…
Ryan Patrick
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