> // Space-ship stuff:
> hull, body ( I doubt fuselage applies)
> radiator
> air-lock
> pressure seals ( I know, IK, IK, you could use "Pressure Walruses", but
> your
> average reader isn't in on the joke ;)
> thrust
> rocket
> solid fuel
> liquid fuel
> oxidizer
> liquified oxygen ( a.k.a. LOX)
> space drive
> ionic drive
> plasma drive
> reactor core
> pressure hull
> orbit
> radiation sickness
> radiation pressure
> ionizing radiation
> x-radiation
> gamma radiation
> cosmic rays
> escape velocity
> re-entry
> thermal blanket
> braking thrust
> ablation
> plasma
> laser
> maser
> graser
> ionosphere
> stratosphere
> van allen belts
> magnetic fields
> solar wind
> radiation shielding
> solar sails
> // stars
> red giants (eg, Betelgeuse)
> blue giants
> main sequence
> white giants (eg, Vega)
> orange dwarfs ( eg, the Sun)
> red dwarfs (eg, Proxima Centauri)
> brown dwarfs
> white dwarfs
> neutron stars
> black holes
> // non-stellar bodies
> asteroids
> kuiper objects
> gas giants
>
> You could probably also pop along to nasa.gov and have a look there for
> a
> glossary. I'm sure they've got one, though I've never looked for it.
>
> Dobre chut!
>
> Wesley Parish
> On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:18, you wrote:
> > I am going to write a story about insane auxlangers. Well, it's not
> JUST
> > about the auxlangers, but the auxlangers and their legacy are
> featured
> > prominently. I need to come up with two things: first, a
> more-or-less
> > universal alphabet that can represent more or less all of the sounds
> in
> > English, Chinese, Arabic, Hindu, and Russian (as well as 12 other
> alien
> > languages I haven't had time to really think through) and will be
> extremely
> > easy to read. Second, two lists of absolutely vital words (one for
> > emergencies and really critical operations in an interstellar
> commercial
> > transportation environment, the other for really common words that
> won't
> > make it to the first list but will still be useful). I thought about
> going
> > to that auxlang list, but it sounds like a frightening place. Anyway,
> I'm
> > pretty sure that I can use the Basic English and universal concepts
> word
> > lists that have been talked about here and elsewhere, but I need some
> kind
> > of information about how to interpret th! ose crazy sound charts
> > (X-SAMPA???) and what kinds of sounds exist, made by living beings,
> that
> > aren't quantifiable using those charts. I'm hoping that I'll need
> less
> > than 200 symbols for that part -- anyone care to dash my hopes early
> enough
> > in this game that I can come up with some other key plot point? Also,
> for
> > those who are into either space stuff or sci-fi stuff, is there a list
> out
> > there of the kinds of terms and parts-of-a-ship that are necessary for
> a
> > sci-fi author to know? I'm thinking "pitch," "yaw," "power core,"
> and
> > "hull integrity" type terms...
> >
> > Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
> > lloannna@surfside.net
> >
http://lloannna.blogspot.com
> >
http://www.geocities.com/lloannna.geo
> >
> > "The very young do not always do as they're told." --
> > 'Anteaus', Stargate SG-1
> >
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