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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 12:41:45 -0500
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On 05/08/2024 13.51, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 05/08/2024 11.09, James Nicoll wrote:
>>> Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?

>> When I say "Hard SF", I mean "a story in which the science, be it right or
>> wrong, is important to the story. Thus, the Lensmen novels are hard SF, since 
>> inertialess travel, the sunbeam, and passage of Lundmark's Nebula through
>> the Milky Way having formed the planets of said galaxies, are all important
>> to the stories. This is so even though we know that none of those are
>> valid.
> 
> Smith just got the name of the nebula incorrect, it was really the
> Sagittarious galaxy.
> 
> https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Five_fascinating_Gaia_revelations_about_the_Milky_Way
  
Interesting article, but if it says that the formation of planets in the
Milky Way was caused by the Sagittarius Galaxy passing through, I can't
find it.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Deuteronomy 10:18-19