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pantryslut ([personal profile] pantryslut) wrote2008-05-02 08:46 am

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1. Reading an SF book this week, I was struck by this question: why is there no dust in the future? I am talking about shiny post-industrial futures, of course, not post-apocalyptic futures, where there is plenty of dust. Thanks to G. for pointing out the distinction. G. has also already pointed up the handwave solution of self-replicating nanobots who feed themselves on dust particles. But still.

2. In regards to Deborah Jeane Palfrey, I am choosing the path of total denial and telling myself the Thelma and Louise version of her story. That is, clearly she faked her own death and has now run off to Mexico.

[identity profile] genderfur.livejournal.com 2008-05-03 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Heinlein did it way back in the 50's, in some short story about a couple who live on the moon, and she comments that her white dress never gets dirty because of the wonderful air filtering.

Me, I'm always wondering who maintains the systems that run those giant cities or whathaveyou.

[identity profile] pantryslut.livejournal.com 2008-05-06 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Me, I'm always wondering who maintains the systems that run those giant cities or whathaveyou.

Bingo!