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Nope. I get alerts when one of my connections posts a chapter, but not for any of the forums (fora?). So, this isn't the only one that fails. I think I remember Sol saying that the emails situation was quirky, so maybe he's aware of it.

Booksie is having problems with their email servers also, but in their case, you get the notification that Author X updated (blank) and gives you no link to follow. So far, no response from their tech support.

Maybe it will start working again magically.

~Tom

I watched Fast and Furious 6 today. It is nothing but wall to wall green-screen crashing and racing cars. Hardly any plot development at all. I remember asking my self if these people ever sleep, or just talk, or worry about their waistlines after eating junk food. Tension is one thing, but after too much of it, you start ho-humming and change the channel.

~Tom

Most plants replicate themselves using seeds or spores. Those would be simple to preserve as they are dormant until the right conditions are met. Don't meet the conditions, and they stay dormant.

But, are we overthinking this by a bit? If you delve too deeply into the why's and wherefore's, then this will be a huge novel. Insert one or two paragraphs giving general details, then post the chapter. If readers want more detail, then you can add it. Otherwise, they might get bored.

~Tom

That is a very impressive place, Karen. If you turn some of those transparent panels into photovoltaic cells, then you have both light and power for your Hydroponics. But, now that I think of it, my dictionary defines 'hydroponics' as "the process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, with added nutrients but without soil". Maybe another term needs to be coined.

~Tom

News reports all along would be a great idea. In fact, you might consider putting one at the beginning of every chapter as sort of a preface to the chapter. It wouldn't necessarily have to relate to what is going on in the chapter with the crew, but would serve as a conduit to what's happening on Earth.

You could probably fudge a little and mention that solar panels in the 24th century are much more efficient than the ones we have now. One square yard just to power a trickle charger for a 12-volt battery? Please.

I don't know if you've ever seen the Sean Connery movie Outland. There is a long scene where he fights a bad guy across the face of a large solar panel array. They go sparking and zapping across it. So, think that scene (if you've seen the movie) and project those solar panels to the sides and roof of your hydroponics buildings.

Over 88 degrees here today and my A/C went out two days ago. Sweltering and had to shut down all but one of my computers because of hi-temp alarms.

~Tom

Great idea. Just the sort of short, to the point, news release that a ship at sea would get. I doubt that fax paper would be wasted on full newspapers anyway, so just a sort of "daily brief" would be what she might get at breakfast, or put under her door during the night.

~Tom

Me. I missed 7 posts in the thread.

~Tom

For some reason, I am not getting notifications, despite having subscribed to this thread. maybe they'll start soon.

~Tom

I tend to agree with Dirk. For the moment, let's leave the panama Canal open. Maybe alluding to a narrow band of land (of which there isn't a whole lot in our hemisphere) for production of food. In the 24th century, I would imagine that inroads have been made towards greenhouses and various other underground food production facilities. Belts may be getting tight, but staples are still being produced.

Funnily enough, I'm working on a rewrite of my novel that has an object hitting the sun and forcing it to cool down. I published the first 5 chapters here, and agreed with the critical reviews that it needed rewriting. There is no reason at all why this novel can't use somewhat the same thing. Or, if a significantly large asteroid hit somewhere like China or the Indian sub-continent, then a great deal of the 'hungry masses" would be out of the picture. Cruel, yes, but realistic as it would cause the natural equivalent of nuclear winter. But, something like that would hardly affect the oceans enough to make much of a difference. What is needed is the sun to stop outputting, or a thick cloud cover for a couple of years.

I reread the chapter again and agree again with Dirk. Let it end as Delana hang up the phone with the President's sense of urgency echoing in her head.

EDIT: I was writing this while Karen responded, so a new post is forthcoming.

~Tom