Sanjay Prasad
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Sartes on a Train
Riding a camel across the Sahel to manage cocaine routes was a piece of cake. Learning rudimentary Quechua to negotiate coca harvesting and cocaine production in the Andes was challenging. This was impossible. Joe spent the last 10 minutes asking the Conductor how he got on the train, and the only response he kept getting was, "you boarded appropriately." His head hurt, and he was thoroughly confused and slightly nauseous; about 10 minutes ago, he figured out that he was aboard the Zephyr a half hour from Denver. Now, he was annoyed.
By Sanjay Prasad3 years ago in Humans
Interplanetary Transport
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Sound needs a medium to propagate. Ultrasonic transducers need gel to transmit sound waves to and from a body. Air is a much less efficient medium, but it works just fine for most sentients. In the vacuum of free space, however, there is no medium, but the "temperature" of space has been measured to be ~2.7 Kelvin. Though heat can radiate, for something to have a measurable temperature requires that thing to vibrate / possess energy. What is there in the vacuum of space to vibrate? Leftover radiation from the big bang? Ether? Space dust? No. I'm increasingly thinking that it's pure terror.
By Sanjay Prasad3 years ago in Fiction
