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Creator’s Blog – Eccentricity

Date: 07-19-2010 13:13     Logged by: steve01

I’ve always liked the strange, the out-there, the differently-motivated characters in stories. And originally, I’d populated Hard Drive 13 with an assortment of weirdoes out of my imagination and bizarre experience. But there were always three. Three crazy crusaders diving into the nuttiness of a world gone mad. And the world of science, politics and conspiracy is definitely crazy, eccentric and humorous. For instance, one possibility for dark matter is “weakly interacting massive particles” or WIMPs. But there’s another possibility. So of course scientists tortured acronyms to come up with MACHOs (massive astrophysical compact halo objects). In Hard Drive 13,…

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Creator’s Blog – Concentricity

Date: 07-16-2010 13:13     Logged by: steve01

I went to New York City, to the Museum of Natural History, and my favorite exhibit was the Rose Center for Earth and Space. As you walk round it, you see the orders of magnitude of scale, from protons to superclusters, and you get this idea of how everything fits inside something bigger, which in turn, fits inside something still bigger. And they were beginning to talk seriously about a multiverse, something outside our entire universe that contained everything we can possibly know, plus innumerable other universes. At the other end of the spectrum, science keeps on discovering smaller “indivisible”…

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Creator’s Blog – Transit

Date: 07-12-2010 13:13     Logged by: steve01

It was the early days of the Internet, and surfing involved maintaining a list of dial-up BBS (bulletin boards), some of which had access to functions like Archie, WAIS, and Gopher. And then there was the early Mosaic browser. Clumsy and slow, sometimes frustrating, but it allowed you access to very early websites, most of which contained very little of interest. However, I managed to come across a document about something called a Stellar Drive, and it has fascinated me ever since. It’s basically two electromagnets, switched on and off very rapidly, so that the first sends out a magnetic…

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Creator’s Blog – Genesis

Date: 07-09-2010 01:22     Logged by: steve01

It begins… I got the original idea years ago while working graveyard shift in a hotel in Prince George, BC. A drearier job I cannot imagine; alone in a hotel through the wee hours, cross-checking the phone messages and room charges, with the occasional relief of kicking someone out of the pool. There was a lot of time to think, read, and, to be honest, watch movies on the television in the back office. I suppose it’s not unusual that my mind began to run to thoughts of other worlds; what they were like, who lived there, and how you…

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