Re: I need advice

graser - gamma ray amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

a weapon we - thankfully - do not have at present.

And thanks for coming up with all the terms that _slipped_ my mind - I
should've remembered more.  Eg, gravity well, metallicity - I knew I had
forgotten something!

Wesley Parish

On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 23:23, you wrote:
> How annoying it is to see a list like this, and find that there is exactly
> _one_ term one does not understand! Aak! What is a "graser"?
>
> My bookshelf sports a book I figure Sarah Marie might like for this - the
> McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Astronomy, which despite the name also covers
> avionics and astronautics. If you can find it, it shouldn't be particularly
> expensive - it says $12.95 on it (I go my ex for ~$6 at a special offer).
>
>                                                            Andreas
>
> PS I could, of course, supply more terms. Some that strikes me at the
> moment are:
>
> comet
> galaxy
> quasar
> magnetar
> quark star
> meteor
> meteorite
> meteoroid
> planet
> gravity well
> black dwarf (cooled former red or brown dwarf, also used of cooled white
> dwarfs; there's also black (=cooled) neutron stars.)
> binary star
> pulsar
> occlusive variable
> cosmic background radiations
> spiral arm (of spiral galaxy)
> Seyfert galaxy
> dark matter (comes in hot and cold varieties)
> dark energy
> nova
> supernova
> hypernova
> recurrent nova
> metallicity (percentage of non-hydrogen non-helium stuff in an object)
>
> Quoting Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>:
> > // 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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> >
> > --
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> > You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
> > Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
> > I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
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Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."