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The Salvage Arithmetic — The Drift
Black Box Case #001: A dead ship that won't cool down.
Jul 17
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The Salvage Arithmetic - What the comments turned up.
Black Box Case #001: A dead ship that won't cool down.
Jul 10
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The Salvage Arithmetic
Black Box Case #001: A dead ship that won't cool down.
Jul 3
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June 2026
Scenarios that physics permits but human intuition refuses.
I'm collecting them. Introducing 'The Black Box'.
Jun 26
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Why Humans Dream About Mars But Fear the Sea
The future we romanticize says more about us than the environments we’re trying to survive.
Jun 19
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Clausewitz Never Had to Invade Another Star System
The speed of light may make interstellar war fundamentally irrational
Jun 13
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The Speed of Light Is Killing the Space Empire
Deep space will resurrect the sovereign ship captain
Jun 6
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May 2026
We Might Not Recognize Alien Life Even If We Saw It
Why evolution did not prepare us for the true scale of the universe
May 29
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Spacecraft Are Thermos Bottles With Reactors Inside
Why the primary threat of deep space isn’t freezing to death, but getting rid of heat
May 23
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The Real Problem With Generation Ships
It’s entropy, recycling, and the mathematics of permanent isolation
May 17
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Space Is Too Empty for Many Sci-Fi Stories
Why realistic interstellar travel breaks many familiar storytelling conventions
May 11
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Is the "Overtake" the most soul-crushing trope in hard sci-fi?
For my next book I’m working on a generation ship backstory that is based on the “Wait Calculation”, the idea that propulsion tech evolves faster than a…
May 2
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