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    Teenage Girls Are Writing Harder Science Fiction Than You Are
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    12/19/08

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/19/08

    In reply to Teenage Girls Are Writing Harder Science Fiction Than You Are
    Wow. You just mashed the best and worst things in the written language together.


    I assume you can't read this since where you are has just been sucked into a rapidly expanding void of darkness and insanity. And Sam Neill.

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    Image of Liz Weinbloom Liz Weinbloom
    12/19/08

    In reply to Teenage Girls Are Writing Harder Science Fiction Than You Are
    For my current project, I emailed questions (ie, "what would happen if someone was inside an operating particle accelerator?") to a couple physics majors and told them to put on their best Science-Literate Person Making Shit Up hats. Does that count?
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    12/19/08

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Actually, we know exactly what would happen. In 1978 Russian scientist Anatoli Bugorski was checking out a malfunctioning accelerator when he stuck his head into the particle path. The near-light-speed proton beam entered through his left nostril, passed through his brain, and exited above and behind his left ear. (A diagram of the beam's path can be found here. Amazingly, he survived and continued his career in science.
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    12/19/08

    @uglyMood: Jesus. Thank you!
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    12/19/08

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    Wait. Is the space duck vote counting for Franken also?
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    12/19/08

    @Sillius: Twice. Also the late Space Duck, Sr. cast a couple of ballots.
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    12/19/08

    In reply to Teenage Girls Are Writing Harder Science Fiction Than You Are
    "Teenage Girls Are Writing Harder Science Fiction Than You Are" -- if I were a teenage girl reading this post, I might be mildly offended by that. I'm not a teenage girl, you'll be happy to know, but I wouldn't assume that there aren't any reading this.
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    12/19/08

    @kukkurovaca: We assume that teenage girls are reading the site, which is totally awesome. But I'm betting they'd still find that headline amusing.
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    12/19/08

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    I would like to read the story about the space duck now, please.
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    12/19/08

    @Rasselas: Opening sentence from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Transhuman:


    "One fine day, and a very fine day it was, aerobraking in from orbit came a space duck."

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    12/19/08

    @Grey_Area: "Stately, plump Duck Mulligan...."
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    12/19/08

    @Rasselas: Here ya go!

    [marvel.com]
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    12/19/08

    @Rasselas: "...I was a Flower of the habitat yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Venusian girls used or shall I wear a infrared yes and how he kissed me under the Martian wall and I grokked well as well him as another and then I asked him with my forward sensory array to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my orbital flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my norks all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. "
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    12/19/08

    @Grey_Area: Ha!
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