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Volume 14, Issue 1 February/March ConNotations 2004 The Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society April Kicks Off with Ursula K Le Featured Inside Guin, Timothy Zahn, Phoenix SF Tube Talk Special Features ComicCon and World Horror All the latest news about Ursala K LeGuin by Lee Whiteside Scienc Fiction TV shows and other April Events by Lee Whiteside By Lee Whiteside The Arizona Book Festival on Saturday, outreach/scifisymp.html and http:// April 3rd, will feature authors Ursula K. Le www.asu.edu/english/events/outreach/ 24 Frames Jinxed, Hexed, or Cursed: Guin, Alan Dean Foster, and Diana leguin.html All the latest Movie News How I Ruined Harlan Ellison’s Gabaldon on the main stage with CASFS The next day is the Seventh Annual by Lee Whiteside Return to Arizona, Part 2 bringing in Timothy Zahn and other local Arizona Book Festival being held from 10 By Shane Shellenbarger authors for autographing and a special am to 5 pm at the Carnegie Center at 1100 Pro Notes block of programming. LeGuin will also be W. Washingtion in central Phoenix. The Waldorf Conference: appearing at ASU on Friday, April 2nd. Featured authors at the book festival are News about locl genre authors and fans Microphones, scripts, and actors The ASU Department of English Ron Carlson, Nancy Farmer, Alan Dean By Shane Shellenbarger Outreach will be hosting two events on Foster, Diana Gabaldon, Ursula K. Le Musical Notes Friday, April 2nd with Ursula K. LeGuin. Guin, Tom McGuane, and U.S. Supreme In Memorium First will be a daylong Symposium on the Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. -
Premiere Props • Hollyw Ood a Uction Extra Vaganza VII • Sep Tember 1 5
Premiere Props • Hollywood Auction Extravaganza VII • September 15-16, 2012 • Hollywood Live Auctions Welcome to the Hollywood Live Auction Extravaganza weekend. We have assembled a vast collection of incredible movie props and costumes from Hollywood classics to contemporary favorites. From an exclusive Elvis Presley museum collection featured at the Mississippi Music Hall Of Fame, an amazing Harry Potter prop collection featuring Harry Potter’s training broom and Golden Snitch, to a entire Michael Jackson collection featuring his stage worn black shoes, fedoras and personally signed items. Plus costumes and props from Back To The Future, a life size custom Robby The Robot, Jim Carrey’s iconic mask from The Mask, plus hundreds of the most detailed props and costumes from the Underworld franchise! We are very excited to bring you over 1,000 items of some of the most rare and valuable memorabilia to add to your collection. Be sure to see the original WOPR computer from MGM’s War Games, a collection of Star Wars life size figures from Lucas Film and Master Replicas and custom designed costumes from Bette Midler, Kate Winslet, Lily Tomlin, and Billy Joel. If you are new to our live auction events and would like to participate, please register online at HollywoodLiveAuctions.com to watch and bid live. If you would prefer to be a phone bidder and be assisted by one of our staff members, please call us to register at (866) 761-7767. We hope you enjoy the Hollywood Live Auction Extravaganza V II live event and we look forward to seeing you on October 13-14 for Fangoria’s Annual Horror Movie Prop Live Auction. -
To Sunday 31St August 2003
The World Science Fiction Society Minutes of the Business Meeting at Torcon 3 th Friday 29 to Sunday 31st August 2003 Introduction………………………………………………………………….… 3 Preliminary Business Meeting, Friday……………………………………… 4 Main Business Meeting, Saturday…………………………………………… 11 Main Business Meeting, Sunday……………………………………………… 16 Preliminary Business Meeting Agenda, Friday………………………………. 21 Report of the WSFS Nitpicking and Flyspecking Committee 27 FOLLE Report 33 LA con III Financial Report 48 LoneStarCon II Financial Report 50 BucConeer Financial Report 51 Chicon 2000 Financial Report 52 The Millennium Philcon Financial Report 53 ConJosé Financial Report 54 Torcon 3 Financial Report 59 Noreascon 4 Financial Report 62 Interaction Financial Report 63 WSFS Business Meeting Procedures 65 Main Business Meeting Agenda, Saturday…………………………………...... 69 Report of the Mark Protection Committee 73 ConAdian Financial Report 77 Aussiecon Three Financial Report 78 Main Business Meeting Agenda, Sunday………………………….................... 79 Time Travel Worldcon Report………………………………………………… 81 Response to the Time Travel Worldcon Report, from the 1939 World Science Fiction Convention…………………………… 82 WSFS Constitution, with amendments ratified at Torcon 3……...……………. 83 Standing Rules ……………………………………………………………….. 96 Proposed Agenda for Noreascon 4, including Business Passed On from Torcon 3…….……………………………………… 100 Site Selection Report………………………………………………………… 106 Attendance List ………………………………………………………………. 109 Resolutions and Rulings of Continuing Effect………………………………… 111 Mark Protection Committee Members………………………………………… 121 Introduction All three meetings were held in the Ontario Room of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel. The head table officers were: Chair: Kevin Standlee Deputy Chair / P.O: Donald Eastlake III Secretary: Pat McMurray Timekeeper: Clint Budd Tech Support: William J Keaton, Glenn Glazer [Secretary: The debates in these minutes are not word for word accurate, but every attempt has been made to represent the sense of the arguments made. -
Rethinking the Fourth Amendment in the Age of Supercomputers, Artificial Intelligence, and Robots
Volume 119 Issue 3 Article 4 April 2017 Rethinking the Fourth Amendment in the Age of Supercomputers, Artificial Intelligence, and Robots Melanie Reid Lincoln Memorial University School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, Fourth Amendment Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons, and the Science and Technology Law Commons Recommended Citation Melanie Reid, Rethinking the Fourth Amendment in the Age of Supercomputers, Artificial Intelligence, and Robots, 119 W. Va. L. Rev. (2017). Available at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr/vol119/iss3/4 This 2017 Evolving Investigative Technologies and the Law Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by the WVU College of Law at The Research Repository @ WVU. It has been accepted for inclusion in West Virginia Law Review by an authorized editor of The Research Repository @ WVU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Reid: Rethinking the Fourth Amendment in the Age of Supercomputers, Art RETHINKING THE FOURTH AMENDMENT IN THE AGE OF SUPERCOMPUTERS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND ROBOTS by Melanie Reid* I. IN TRODU CTION ............................................................................. 864 II. M EET OFFICER "JOE ROBOTO". ................................................... 868 A. Issue #1: Officer Joe Roboto Will Be Smarter, Faster,and More Efficient than Its Human Counterparts....................... 871 B. Issue #2: Officer Joe Roboto Signifies a GreaterIntrusion into Our P rivate L ives .................................................................. 872 C. Issue #3: Officer Joe Roboto's Easy Access to an Endless DatabaseRequires a Complete Rethinking of CurrentFourth A m endment D octrine ............................................................ 873 III. A TYPICAL DAY IN THE LIFE OF OFFICER JOE ROBOTO .............. -
The Space Launch System for Exploration and Science. K
45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2014) 2234.pdf THE SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM FOR EXPLORATION AND SCIENCE. K. Klaus1, M. S. Elsperman1, B. B. Donahue1, K. E. Post1, M. L. Raftery1, and D. B. Smith1, 1The Boeing Company, 13100 Space Center Blvd, Houston TX 77059, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], mi- [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. Introduction: The Space Launch System (SLS) is same time which will simplify mission design and re- the most powerful rocket ever built and provides a duce launch costs. One of the key features of the SLS critical heavy-lift launch capability enabling diverse in cislunar space is performance to provide “dual-use”, deep space missions. This exploration class vehicle i.e. Orion plus 15t of any other payload. launches larger payloads farther in our solar system An opportunity exists to deliver payload to the lu- and faster than ever before. Available fairing diameters nar surface or lunar orbit on the unmanned 2017 range from 5 m to 10 m; these allow utilization of ex- MPCV/ SLS test flight (~4.5t of mass margin exists for isting systems which reduces development risks, size this flight). Concepts of this nature can be done for limitations and cost. SLS injection capacity shortens less than Discovery class mission budgets (~$450M) mission travel time. Enhanced capabilities enable a and may be done as a joint venture by the NASA Sci- variety of missions including human exploration, plan- ence Mission Directorate and Human Exploration Op- etary science, astrophysics, heliophysics, planetary erations Mission Directorate using the successful Lu- defense, Earth observaton and commercial space en- nar Reconnaissance Orbiter as a program model. -
ISCON II a Final Report on the 32Nd World Science Fiction Convention Llashi Ngton I D • C ■ El Aug - 2 Sep ITYU
FINAL PROGRESS REPORT 5 □ ISCON II A Final Report on the 32nd World Science Fiction Convention llashi ngton i D • C ■ El Aug - 2 Sep ITYU GUEST OF HONOR: Roger Zelazny FAN GOH : Jay Kay Klein TOASTMASTER: andy offutt I COMMITTEE Co-Cha irpeople........................................................ JaySAlice Haldeman Vi ce Cha i rman........................................................ Ron Bounds Treasurer .................................................................. Bill Evans Secretary .................................................................. Ted Pauls Art Show.......................................................................Bob Pavlat Irene Redd ick Ray Ridenour Auctions ...................................................................... Jack Chalker Babysitting............................................................. Pat Potts Banquet...................................................................... Bill Evans Bookkeeper .................................................................... Jim Thomas Communications........................................................ Bill Berg Computer Services ................................................. Jim Landau Film Program............................................................. Kim Weston Chariie Ellis Hotel Liaison........................................................ Bob Pavlat Huckster Room........................................................ Bob Madle Masquerade .................................................................. Jack Chalker -
July 15, 2000 SEEING EAR THEATRE JMS' First Audio Drama for The
July 15, 2000 SEEING EAR THEATRE JMS' first audio drama for the Seeing Ear Theatre premiered on Monday night. "The Damned Are Playing at Godzilla's Tonight" - featuring Steve Buscemi launched a 13-week series by JMS of 30 minute dramas at the Sci-Fi Channel’s website. "Rolling Thunder" - featuring Andre Braugher will be available next week.at http://www.scifi.com/set. The dramas are very much like the original radio format and I think you will enjoy the story. You'll need Real Audio loaded to listen. KEEPING UP WITH CAST AND CREW In the latest issue of TV Zone, we get our first glimpse of Marjean Holden in her new role as Atrina on "Beastmaster". We won't be seeing her episodes for a while, but she says "My character is a bit of a bad girl." Quite a change from her role as Dr. Chambers in Crusade. Ranger Bridgitte reports that: Goran Gajic (married to Mira Furlan and director of episodes like "All My Dreams Torn Asunder") recently directed an episode of "OZ", the awarding-winning prison drama produced by Levinson/Fontana. Goran's episode titled, "The Bill Of Wrongs" premieres on Wednesday July 26 on HBO. The episode will be shown several times throughout the week. A schedule of times is posted at: http://mirafurlan.simplenet.com/ozschedule.html GROUP PROJECT As Babylon 5 approaches it's premiere date on the Sci-Fi Channel of September 25, I wonder what resources we could make available to NEW Babylon 5 fans! When the show was on the air, there was a very active on-line community, the Official B5 magazine came out to provide us with information to digest and enjoy, the series would turn up in publications so that we could read about our favorite characters/actors. -
Breakthrough Propulsion Study Assessing Interstellar Flight Challenges and Prospects
Breakthrough Propulsion Study Assessing Interstellar Flight Challenges and Prospects NASA Grant No. NNX17AE81G First Year Report Prepared by: Marc G. Millis, Jeff Greason, Rhonda Stevenson Tau Zero Foundation Business Office: 1053 East Third Avenue Broomfield, CO 80020 Prepared for: NASA Headquarters, Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) and NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Washington, DC 20546 June 2018 Millis 2018 Grant NNX17AE81G_for_CR.docx pg 1 of 69 ABSTRACT Progress toward developing an evaluation process for interstellar propulsion and power options is described. The goal is to contrast the challenges, mission choices, and emerging prospects for propulsion and power, to identify which prospects might be more advantageous and under what circumstances, and to identify which technology details might have greater impacts. Unlike prior studies, the infrastructure expenses and prospects for breakthrough advances are included. This first year's focus is on determining the key questions to enable the analysis. Accordingly, a work breakdown structure to organize the information and associated list of variables is offered. A flow diagram of the basic analysis is presented, as well as more detailed methods to convert the performance measures of disparate propulsion methods into common measures of energy, mass, time, and power. Other methods for equitable comparisons include evaluating the prospects under the same assumptions of payload, mission trajectory, and available energy. Missions are divided into three eras of readiness (precursors, era of infrastructure, and era of breakthroughs) as a first step before proceeding to include comparisons of technology advancement rates. Final evaluation "figures of merit" are offered. Preliminary lists of mission architectures and propulsion prospects are provided. -
Fudge Space Opera
Fudge Space Opera Version 0.3.0 2006-August-11 by Omar http://www.pobox.com/~rknop/Omar/fudge/spop Coprights, Trademarks, and Licences Fudge Space Opera is licenced under the Open Gaming Licence, version 1.0a; see Appendex A. Open Game License v 1.0 Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Fudge System Reference Document Copyright 2005, Grey Ghost Press, Inc.; Authors Steffan O’Sullivan, Ann Dupuis, with additional material by other authors as indicated within the text. Available for use under the Open Game License (see Appendix I) Fudge Space Opera Copyright 2005, Robert A. Knop Jr. Open Gaming Content Designation of Product Identity: Nothing herein is designated as Product Identity as outlined in section 1(e) of the Open Gaming License. Designation of Open Gaming Content: Everything herein is designated as Open Game Content as outlined in seciton 1(d) of the Open Gaming License. Fudge Space Opera -ii- Fudge Space Opera CONTENTS Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Why “Space Opera”? . ......... 1 1.2 WhatisHere ........................................ .......... 2 1.3 TheMostImportantThing .............................. ............ 2 2 Character Creation 3 2.1 GeneralNotes........................................ .......... 3 2.2 5-PointFudge....................................... ........... 3 3 Combat 7 3.1 Default Combat Options . .......... 7 3.2 Basic Armor and Weapon Mechanics . ........... 7 3.3 Cross-WeaponScaleAttacks. .............. 8 3.4 Suggested Weapon Scales . ........ 9 3.5 DamagetoPassengers ................................. ............ 9 3.6 GiantSpaceBeasts.................................... ........... 9 3.7 When To Use Fudge Scale .......................................... 10 3.8 RangedWeapons....................................... ......... 11 3.9 Explosions........................................ ............ 12 3.10 Missiles and Point Defense . .............. 12 -iii- Fudge Space Opera CONTENTS 3.11 Doing Too Many Things at Once . -
Available Online Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, 2019, 6(11):202-215 Research Article Theoretical
Available online www.jsaer.com Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, 2019, 6(11):202-215 ISSN: 2394-2630 Research Article CODEN(USA): JSERBR Theoretical Consideration of Star Trek's Space Navigation Yoshinari Minami Advanced Space Propulsion Investigation Laboratory (ASPIL), (Formerly NEC Space Development Division), Japan, E-Mail: [email protected] Abstract As is well known, Star Trek is a masterpiece that has been known worldwide since 1966 as a science fiction set in the famous galaxy universe. A starship (Enterprise) arrives at a star system in a short period of time to a star system that is tens, hundreds and thousands of light years away from the Earth. This method of making a starship reach a distant star system is skillfully expressed in the movie using images. Unfortunately, however, there is no concrete explanation from the physical point of view of the propulsion method of the starship and the principle of warp navigation, that is, the space propulsion theory and the space navigation theory. This paper is an attempt to explain Star Trek's space navigation by applying the hyper-space navigation theory to the field propulsion theory that the author has published in international conferences and peer-reviewed journals since 1993 [1]. Since this paper mainly describes the concept of the principle, most of the mathematical expressions are reduced. See the references for theoretical formulas [1- 6]. Keywords Star Trek; starship; galaxy; space-time; interstellar travel; star flight; navigation; field propulsion; space drive; imaginary time; hyperspace; wormhole; time hole; astrophysics 1. Introduction Space development in the 21st century, unless there is a groundbreaking advance in the space transportation system, the area of activity of human beings will be restricted to the vicinity of the Earth forever and new knowledge cannot be obtained. -
Living in the Matrix: Virtual Reality Systems and Hyperspatial Representation in Architecture
Living in The Matrix: Virtual Reality Systems and Hyperspatial Representation in Architecture Kacmaz Erk, G. (2016). Living in The Matrix: Virtual Reality Systems and Hyperspatial Representation in Architecture. The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts, 13-25. Published in: The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts Document Version: Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Queen's University Belfast - Research Portal: Link to publication record in Queen's University Belfast Research Portal Publisher rights © 2016 Gul Kacmaz Erk. Available under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The use of this material is permitted for non-commercial use provided the creator(s) and publisher receive attribution. No derivatives of this version are permitted. Official terms of this public license apply as indicated here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The Research Portal is Queen's institutional repository that provides access to Queen's research output. Every effort has been made to ensure that content in the Research Portal does not infringe any person's rights, or applicable UK laws. If you discover content in the Research Portal that you believe breaches copyright or violates any law, please contact [email protected]. -
Star Trek" Mary Jo Deegan University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected]
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by UNL | Libraries University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Sociology Department, Faculty Publications Sociology, Department of 1986 Sexism in Space: The rF eudian Formula in "Star Trek" Mary Jo Deegan University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub Part of the Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, and the Social Psychology and Interaction Commons Deegan, Mary Jo, "Sexism in Space: The rF eudian Formula in "Star Trek"" (1986). Sociology Department, Faculty Publications. 368. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub/368 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sociology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology Department, Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. THIS FILE CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING MATERIALS: Deegan, Mary Jo. 1986. “Sexism in Space: The Freudian Formula in ‘Star Trek.’” Pp. 209-224 in Eros in the Mind’s Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film, edited by Donald Palumbo. (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, No. 21). New York: Greenwood Press. 17 Sexism in Space: The Freudian Formula in IIStar Trek" MARY JO DEEGAN Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, its five year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. These words, spoken at the beginning of each televised "Star Trek" episode, set the stage for the fan tastic future.