This Writing Life

Sublime: High-definition transfer of the 16mm film that captured the launch of Apollo 11. This camera is turning so fast that eight minutes here represents 30 seconds of real time. There are so many engineering tricks and insightful solutions on display and this is just a piece of the launch pad. Someone remind me – [...]

Philip Palmer on Faster-Than-Light travel in science fiction. For at this very fast speed, one’s mass will be infinite (i.e. even greater, so the equations prove, than my mass and the dimensions of my arse on Boxing Day) and this makes travel of any kind difficult. ► Faster Than the Speed of Light | Orbit Books