That age-old question… September 10, 2006
Posted by samwyse in Editorials.1 comment so far
Over at Wired News, there’s an article about WIPP (or, as they call it, the “Nuclear Dump of the Future” Someone visiting the site asks that age-old question:
Instead of spending so many millions of tax payer dollars on this facility, why not shoot this stuff to the sun? 10,000 years is a lot of time, and too much can happen in such a long time.These nuclear substances should have no place on our planet.
SkyPlane issues September 4, 2006
Posted by samwyse in Interactive Fiction.1 comment so far
I can hear most of you asking already, “What’s a skyplane?” It is one of the three common ways to draw the sky in a computer image. The problem is that the sky is a hemisphere, which is round, while computer images are rectangular, and flat. Placing a flat rectangular picture on a round sphere requires streching the picture, and there are several ways to do that.
