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Atomic Rockets at Project Rho is
Winchell Chung’s tongue-in-cheek approach to the
very serious topics of spacecraft design, space
travel, and interplanetary civilization. There
is plenty of useful scientific and technical
information here for the interested layman. “So
you wanna build a rocket?”
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Baen Books publishes pulpy
science-fiction and fantasy novels. To
demonstrate that electronic piracy is at worst a
nuisance, Baen has set up a free, on-line
library for a number of its most popular titles.
Read, enjoy, and maybe buy a book.
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Maddox is rude, crude, and often
funny as hell, but I doubt he has “The Best Page
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It
is easy to forget that our innocent little
planet is still under bombardment by
interplanetary debris. The University of New
Brunswick’s Earth Impact
Database catalogs the confirmed impact sites
discovered around the globe.
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EXOSOLAR provides an excellent
interactive, Flash-powered star map that
displays graphical and textual information about
nearby stars and their accompanying planets.
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The Maine Solar House teaches us
that many of our energy needs can be met with
little more than sunlight.
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The Space Studies Institute
carries on the dream of opening the energy and
material resources of space for human benefit. |
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I used to spend a lot of time at
Sword Forum International. Though limited time
and changing priorities have diverted my
attention, SFI is still a great place for
information and lively discussion about swords. |
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Since linking to on-line comics
seems to be fashionable, here is Unshelved,
a strip about a library. |
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Information
from Wikipedia must be studied critically due to
its vulnerability to inaccuracy and vandalism,
but it is still a convenient starting point for
research. At the very least, this on-line
encyclopedia can suggest logical avenues of
exploration.
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