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IMPROBABLE

15 Jul 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Namsu

Published: 2006 Author: Adam Fawer Genres: Espionage, Espionage Thrillers, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Suspense Thriller, Science Fiction, Action, Adventure   This is the first book by Mr. Adam Fawer but it doesn't feel like...

Book Review: The Plant by Paul Sating (free e-book link inside)

7 Jul 2021 1 minute read 1 comment b_eleven

Book Review: The Plant by Paul Sating To be fair, The Plant is more like a short story teaser written by the author to lure you into a post-apocalyptic world of monsters, government conspiracies and experiments, and mystery and intrigue. In a post W...

Book Review: Ready Player Two

5 Jul 2021 3 minute read 1 comment b_eleven

Book Review: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline   Like many readers, I was veritably excited to hear that sequel to Ready Player One was in the works six years ago. The first book had been a nostalgic adventure through the memory lane of the 1980s and...

Interplanetary Sunsets (Chapter 4)

22 Jun 2021 6 minute read 0 comments newb0Xsir

***Before you start reading!*** Check out the first 3 chapters here: Interplanetary Sunsets (Chapter 1?) | by James Crawford | Medium Interplanetary Sunsets (Chapter 2) | by James Crawford | Medium Interplanetary Sunsets (Chapter 3) | by James Crawfo...

How Bitcoin (Cash) gets our ass to Mars

19 Jun 2021 7 minute read 3 comments Powell Quesne

The columnar view slides about fifty places to the right until it's centred on the scroll of robotics, as requested, and then the human anchormen take centre screen. They look like classic, old-school robots -- two of them, clad in riveted metal cyli...

Bitcoin Mars, the node, as described by the eponymous novel

18 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Powell Quesne

(snoopset) "--dictated pointlessly by a blockchain's consensus rules, a group running a splinter node fired back by implementing a competing consensus rule, rejecting the first rule, and demanding the pronunciation 'doagcoin' instead, and that is act...

Key excerpt from "Bitcoin Mars" on Bitcoin mining's response energy utilisation (REU)

15 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Powell Quesne

"Quit showing off, Brent," says Leon, bounding wider of the crater to avoid the dust billowing. (snoopset) "Look who's talkin'... Neil!"Leon says, "Hippity hoppity!" Terrain can get tricky this close to the rim, but he is well-practised enough to han...

Seeking Truth

14 Jun 2021 6 minute read 3 comments The Archivist

When you dream, can you tell you are dreaming? How do you tell what is true and what is not? Do you honestly listen to the opposite view and suspend your disbelief in order to see things differently? How do you tell if the opposite view you've found...

Introducing... "Bitcoin Mars"

13 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Powell Quesne

"CHAINSPLIT!" It's a rim howler, alright. It's not just a distant, ghostly, undifferentiated whine anymore. He can hear the regular scooping of the thing's initial roar through his space helmet. The wall has to be right in front of him now, just beyo...

Passenger Drone Bus & Taxi Services

12 Jun 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk

Passenger Drone Bus & Taxi Services   Anyone with any sense realized that everything moving forward after the global shutdown will be different and for good reason. Airlines had no passengers. There was no need for their services; period. People were...