Re: I need advice

// 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
>
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