Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• The mysterious X-37B has returned to Earth after 468 days in space, evidently without a scratch. One of the comenters on the many space hobby sites I read suggested something interesting: The spacecraft might be considered a "retrievable satellite" that can stay in orbit for years at a time, then shimmy down the gravity well for a refurb when

Comments

[daisy_knotwise]

But, Trojans are supposed to keep you from having anything to deliver.

And I'm a little dyslexic and have found that, when reading quickly, I interpret Neanderthals as Netherlanders.
Why is he picking on the Dutch?

GHR

[biguglymandoll]

I'm increasingly wanting to read The Gathering Ice! I remember the Younger Dryas - well, I remember it from college, I suppose I don't recall living through it. Neat premise - please keep us posted!

[jeff_duntemann]

The big temptation I must avoid is to throw too much climate esoterica into the story; strange attractors etc. make people's eyes glaze over I've been researching paleoclimate along with paleo everything else (humans and animals) and have a clever (if maybe bogus) explanation for the Dryas. Oh, and the Plugs/Uglies have frozen embryos stashed (mammoths, mastodons, glyptodonts, and giant beavers) in a carefully guarded ice cave in northern Canada. Should be fun.

[kevinnickerson]

You'll both owe Asimov's Ugly Little Boy.