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ering a degree of service that the new light rail system isn t planned to rival until decades from now yet its monorail dreams were dashed by the harsh light of reality and what was built in 1962 is still all there is in 2012 my own belief is that it s disney s fault the fault of the amusement parks when the monorail was installed at disneyland in 1959 it was an emblem of progress of the future a piece of the new world that people in the immediate postwar years were still eager to seize however with the seattle monorail remaining locked in its original scale and other monorail projects failing to get off the ground the idea of monorails became more and more associated with amusement parks and tourism riding it today the seattle center monorail seems almost emblematic of lost promise after all there s no reason monorails couldn t be a vital part of the rapid transit mosaic as they are in places like japan the seattle center monorail is like an old murky window that looks into another time in some way it s the barest fragment of what could have been previous tunnel visions bay area rapid transit san francisco s muni metro phoenix s metro light rail the kenosha electric railway vancouver s skytrain the toronto subway and rt the los angeles county metro rail the chicago l the montreal metro posted by phoebe barton at 09 23 1 comment labels monorail seattle transit tunnel visions saturday june 16 2012 photo the train to excitement canada line trains are no stranger to wrap ads but most of them are only around for a limited time an exception to this are the trains i believe there are two wearing the river rock wrap ad which has been consistently out there since at least the summer of 2010 and possibly since the line opened for service this shot was taken from one of the turboprop departure lounges at vancouver international airport given the way the line s built there aren t that many opportunities to catch a train from a perspective like this i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it under the creative commons attribution non commercial share alike 3 0 unported license this means that you are free to share to copy distribute and transmit the work and to remix to adapt the work under the following conditions attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work noncommercial you may not use this work for commercial purposes and share alike if you alter transform or build upon this work you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one posted by phoebe barton at 09 08 no comments labels creative commons photo skytrain vancouver friday june 15 2012 journey to the center of disbelief when you re creating something set in a world other than our own be it the future or a wholly fictional place there s always a temptation to throw in something big something stunning something utterly foreign to underline that the audience isn t in kansas anymore it can be the way the starships look the in your face unreality of magic spells being tossed around or just landscapes of such epic scales that it seems impossible you d be able to find them in reality like in the lord of the rings movies yet it s also possible to get carried away with this sort of thing to take hold of an idea and charge toward the end zone without stopping to think about it to allow the ooh ah majesty of your chosen big dumb object to take a prime role in whatever you re putting together regardless of whether or not it actually makes sense that unfortunately is one of the impressions i m getting from the preliminary reports i ve seen about the new total recall movie and i can only hope that those reports are in some way incomplete or misrepresenting the movie s big dumb object the 1990 film had the martian reactor but since nobody will be getting their asses to mars in 2012 something new had to be brought in to replace it something that for me goes beyond god damn that is awesome to god damn what were they thinking something like this the lynchpin of wiseman s action movie wrote meredith woerner on io9 is the china fall a massive elevator that takes thousands of people from one side of the earth to the other through the center of the earth this was pretty much my reaction this idea isn t original to the movie it s called a gravity train and the idea as many ideas are in a vacuum is simple you dig a straight tunnel through a planet and drop in a capsule gravity will accelerate the capsule until the midpoint and as it climbs out the other side gravity will work against it until it arrives at the other end with zero velocity in this regard it works just like a constant thrust spaceflight except with no thrust at all on paper it s a hell of a transportation system the only fuel that would be required would be for whatever has to catch the cab on the other end though you d need systems in place to take care of atmospheric friction otherwise you d run the risk of a bad catch resulting in a capsule trapped in the center of the shaft however as anyone who s seen the core may know the innards of earth aren t that simple in particular there s a certain thing called pressure even the core didn t ignore this which is why the craft s unobtanium hull was so vital there in the inner core of earth a section that you d need to pass through in order to make a functioning gravity train the pressure is more than three million times what it is at sea level and so hot that even an arwing might not be able to take it over nine thousand degrees fahrenheit there s something else you might be familiar with that has the same kind of temperature the surface of the sun i ll admit the concept is not impossible just horrendously difficult and hideously expensive if you re going to bring something like this in though you can t just do it piecemeal the techniques and materials needed to build a tunnel through the world would of necessity find far wider applications in general society if you ve got enough unobtainium to build a twelve thousand kilometer long tunnel through the planet in any kind of believable time frame you ve by necessity also got enough unobtanium to do whatever the hell you want with it buildings should be made out of this imagine active volcanoes plugged with unobtanium tubes that upon eruptions feed the ash and lava and what have you into huge storage tanks rather than have it spat into the sky i have difficulty suspending my disbelief in regard to the notion that the people behind the new total recall seriously considered these issues and consequently i don t think i m going to have an easy time accepting this movie an ancient alien reactor on mars it s out there but i can get behind it a tunnel through the world let me get back to you on that posted by phoebe barton at 13 19 no comments labels film science fiction tech thursday june 14 2012 photo the duck under the bridge these ducks are everywhere in seattle amphibious buses like the hippo buses in toronto and soon vancouver which cart tourists around hither and yon for ordinary directed tours they can do sitting down in the area around downtown it seems like you can t get away from them and even when i made my way up to fremont this one still showed up passing under the aurora bridge the guide is probably pointing out the fremont troll while heading toward something the last thousand groups of tourists saw as well i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it under the creative commons attribution non commercial share alike 3 0 unported license this means that you are free to share to copy distribute and transmit the work and to remix to adapt the work under the following conditions attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work noncommercial you may not use this work for commercial purposes and share alike if you alter transform or build upon this work you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one posted by phoebe barton at 12 24 no comments labels creative commons photo seattle wednesday june 13 2012 the new and the grey oh neat the chapters cashier said when i handed over the lastest issues of asimov s and analog i didn t even know we had these if you re looking for the genre short story magazines things like analog or fantasy science fiction or ellery queen s mystery magazine it s a real crapshoot as to where or whether you ll find them in the robson square chapters which is my usual haunt now they re kept on a top floor magazine rack practically as far from the escalator as it s possible to be in the metrotown chapters they re hidden behind digests and literary magazines near the outside entrance and it s possible to spend ages searching for them even if you already know exactly where they re supposed to be the barnes noble in downtown seattle doesn t seem to carry f sf at all these story magazines are to be blunt difficult commodities to get hold of depending on where you are recently i was reading the october 1995 asimov s a last minute rescue from a portland used bookstore cover story the death of captain future by allen steele robert silverberg s column for that issue the audience grows older struck me in it he raises concerns over an f sf survey indicating that only seven percent of its readers were below the age of 25 and fifty five percent were older than 35 and that while many readers remain loyal they re not being replaced the greying of science fiction is a concern that s been batted around for decades now and there is some truth to it at the world science fiction convention in 2009 one of the things that stuck with me was the age distribution there were a lot of folks there of my parents generation for this year s worldcon as of the end of last month they d sold fifty six young adult that is under 21 one hundred and twenty five child and seventeen kid in tow memberships next to more than three thousand attending memberships anecdotal data sure but anecdotes can add up it s easy to understand why this is happening back in the original boom era of science fiction when a lot of those now aging readers first got into the genre there was a wealth of magazines to read through although asimov s didn t get its start until 1977 magazines like analog amazing if galaxy and so on had already set down roots what was also the case before the late 1970s was that there was only limited competition for science fiction from any other media then of course star wars came out and the world began to change it changed and new readers who would have gone to the magazines in a different era now didn t as someone who was one of those potential new readers in 1995 i think i can shed at least a flickering light on this my introduction to science fiction was through star trek not a newsstand magazine star trek v is the first movie i can remember seeing in a theatre at home we had all of the original star trek episodes on vhs and a bookshelf of star trek tie in novels when it comes down to it though the main reason i wasn t following the threads of science fiction devouring the magazines and so on was that i didn t know they existed there s just so much on the shelves it wasn t until i was almost out of my teenage years that i stumbled across them as far as i can remember my first encounter with a science fiction magazine came at some point after january 2001 when i found and read that month s issue of asimov s a fact i only remember because allen steele s stealing alabama was the lead story and because the opening chapters of coyote were inexplicably familiar when i read it last year and that only because both times i thought alabama was a really strange choice for earth s first starship i don t know if i ever owned it i certainly don t have it any more it wasn t until i reached university that i found these things for sale in the student bookstore but then because i was a broke ass student i bought them only occasionally i d missed the window for them to sink their jaws into me it wasn t until 2007 that i really started in on them and that because i d resolved to start writing short stories and needed to get more experience with how they worked i certainly find it as cause for regret today i can t help but wonder what sort of person i might have been what sort of ideas i might have grappled with what sort of writing challenges i might have tackled if the solution to the problem of the aging audience is exposure introduction of these magazines to people who would be interested in them but who are wholly unaware of them the modern ebook revolution can i think change that there are plenty of magazines out there that publish electronically like andromeda spaceways or lightspeed the audience is there the audience has always been there the people in the audience just need to know that they can be an audience posted by phoebe barton at 13 17 1 comment labels culture science fiction sf tuesday june 12 2012 photo a south lake union streetcar in the rain seattle has something that makes it practically unique in north america and it s not the space needle every major city has its tourist trap no i mean its embryonic streetcar system which is one of the few modern streetcars on the continent rather than a heritage trolley or prewar survival like toronto s system there s nothing heritage about these while i was in seattle i caught one of its three streetcars about to depart from the westlake terminus to south lake union during a hard but thankfully brief downpour i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it under the creative commons attribution non commercial share alike 3 0 unported license this means that you are free to share to copy distribute and transmit the work and to remix to adapt the work under the following conditions attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work noncommercial you may not use this work for commercial purposes and share alike if you alter transform or build upon this work you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one posted by phoebe barton at 12 22 no comments labels creative commons photo seattle streetcars monday june 11 2012 quaff review 24 voodoo doughnut bacon maple ale there have been some strange match ups when it comes to beer mustard beer oyster stouts pizza beer the list goes on but it isn t very long because beers such as that are effectively special editions experiments by breweries that have made their names and founded their profitability on more traditional pedestrian offerings but there s something to be said for letting loose and creativity is just as acceptable in 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