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I've done some geocaching. GPS gets you within fifty feet or so of where the cache is, then you use your common sense. It's not quite like there's a flag sticking out of the ground. It's not that different from letterboxing, except instead of a hint you get an approximate coordinate.
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For practical purposes, within a hundred meters would be enough for nearly all normal purposes, like finding one's location on a map, or locating a downed aircraft.
I don't use GPS, 'cause I usually know where I am and where I'm going. (However, once the directions on MapQuest once directed me to the wrong exit on the interstate and then stranded me on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.)
Meant to comment on the "faster than light" particles issue...probably it's observation error...it would be awesome if it could be duplicated, but probably it's error...
I suppose the "ten best" theme kinda ran its course...most everyone who had a thought on it put their two cents in, and the discussion turned towards other things suggested by our commentary.
(Also the site---no, not the site, just the boards, the rest of the site seemed to be up---the boards were down for a while...I'm pretty sure I would've commented on the "faster than light" experiments somewhere in the middle of that, too...but the whole thing threw us off our strides.)
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You know Kathleen that if the boards came back from an Alternate Universe we may never know if they really are ours or someone else's with some small detail that is different. Or even a major detail like one of us is now missing.
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I've just been checking the names of the people that are now registered on this site. I have found a few discrepancies. There are a few people that should be in most peoples memory, but I never knew they weren't until I looked at the backup. I can't remember any of them - can you? The people that are no longer registered in memory include
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Going back a page, now. KayTi commented on the absence of female writers in the Best Of Science Fiction list. Earlier this year, I tried to compile a list of influential sci-fi novels that were written by women, and I realized that it's much easier to create a genderless or male-only list.
I would like to see a woman-only list, though. Help me out? What would you say are the top 10 sci-fi novels written by a woman?
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On female writers...it's hard to think of a single SF / fantasy novel among the many, but I'll throw out the names of Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, C. L. Moore, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret St. Clair, Vonda McIntyre, "James Tiptree, Jr.", and Tanith Lee. For some of them, their strength was in shorter works, though. (There are a couple of female SF / fantasy writers I don't like and don't name, but if somebody else throws one out I might make comment on it.)
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Andre Norton probably got more kids to read science fiction (during a certain time period) than any other writer, male or female. She certainly did it for me.
I'd also add C J Cherryh and Lois McMaster Bujold to Robert's suggestions. But these are lists of authors, not of single books.
Some might add Anne McCaffrey, but then we'd get into a discussion of whether or not what she's most famous for counts as science fiction or science fantasy.
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