yeah that was a manic fun one... and still very compatible with being a screenplay as essentially saving a damsel in distress and the whole planet. perhaps like Men In Black

it still started snappy and ran, just noticeably slower as I added elements. its a pixel 10 pro but running graphene and vanadium browser...a rare client for sure but shouldn't be different than chrome on Android

Scalzi writes like it's for a Hollywood screenplay... it's dialogue heavy with a lot of action. But he still puts a lot of intelligence and knowledge into his books. It can be too superficial sometimes but in a lot of his work it's the perfect balance of concept and execution...it's hit or miss but with the misses they are still fun like an action flick.

My favorite series of his would be The Last Emperoux.

very cool. it was immediately educational.

a couple notes:

• it barely runs on my new phone so perhaps some compromises for mobile would be best.
• still working on absorptive materials besides PEC plane? where are the things that would cast a radiation shadow?

thanks for the suggestion, i picked to the latest from bookshop.org and am already enjoying it!

I enjoyed that a lot, thanks!

I rechecked my math on that and you're right, it's about the same per capita.

it can only keep 43 cores total and there are less than 10 slots left. Maybe after the abrasion and dust analysis they decided it wasn't interesting enough.

well if you want hard numbers China produces about 1100GW of energy from coal yearly and the US is sitting at 260GW. so a 7% increase on 260 still deserves what the article says about not coming anywhere near China, even per capita. We would love to see US numbers trending the other direction but the current administration can't be bothered to interrupt its money grab. China has been holding steady in recent years, which is an accomplishment, but China still uses more coal than the rest of the world combined.

holy crap... im in TN and hate cutting down trees but I recently had enough of a grove of them on my property. I only knew their name from a plant app, not how bad they were. My first thought was "Im going to have fun with a chainsaw" but it turns out that's how you get a grove of them... it causes root suckering when you cut them... they're like Hydra. It's ne of the few cases where experts recommend poisoning. Glad I saw this post!