Interstellar luxury cruiser (nonfiction): Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:
An '''interstellar luxury cruiser''' is a [[spacecraft (nonfiction)|spacecraft]] designed to carry passengers between the stars in extreme comfort and elegance, with all the finest pleasures of the galaxy at their disposal.
An '''interstellar luxury cruiser''' is a [[spacecraft (nonfiction)|spacecraft]] designed to carry passengers between the stars in extreme comfort and elegance, with all the finest pleasures of the galaxy at their disposal.


== Energy consumption ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


Energy consumption figures are necessarily speculative, since no such ship exists currently exists (May 2016).
* [[Liberace's Bathtub]]
 
Speculative calculations suggest that [[my]] ideal interstellar luxury cruiser burns up '''one million Las Vegases per microsecond'''.
 
=== Las Vegas units ===
 
Are you picturing Las Vegas, in its entirely, lit up on a high-rolling Saturday night?  Powerful!  They have to run Hoover Dam overtime to handle the load!
 
Take all that bright jangling Las Vegas energy -- billions of dollars -- billions of kilowatts -- winners!  losers!  jackpots!  crackpots!  Anything can happen, baby!  Anything! -- and hold that idea in your mind like a diamond, the diamond that is Las Vegas at that screaming peak moment in that blinding Saturday night.
 
=== Scale ===
 
Take that diamond and ''crush it down'' into a grain of sand!  ''Don't look!''  Even in your own mind!
 
At that scale, the brightness hurts.
 
=== Night sky ===
 
Finally, imagine the night sky full of stars ... the stars like your infinitesimal, intolerably powerful grain of diamond-sand ... imagine them up their, the stars ... the ... arrogance of it ... how ''dare'' they stay up there, out of reach?  Do I not have in my palm one of their kind?  Am I not worthy of their notice?  ''Why won't they come down and play?''
 
=== Summary ===
 
... Sorry, wandered off.  Where was [[I (nonfiction)|I]]?
 
The deal interstellar luxury cruiser, yes.  Here's the deal:
 
* Diamonds are just luxury coal, and this is a coal-fired spaceship.
 
* Shovel as fast as you can, because the passengers are watching. 
** After all -- ''what could be more luxurious that watching a man toil for nothing?''


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
Line 38: Line 9:
* [[Spacecraft (nonfiction)]]
* [[Spacecraft (nonfiction)]]


== Fiction cross-reference ==
* [[Liberace's Bathtub]]


[[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]]

Revision as of 06:32, 13 June 2016

An interstellar luxury cruiser is a spacecraft designed to carry passengers between the stars in extreme comfort and elegance, with all the finest pleasures of the galaxy at their disposal.

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Interstellar_luxury_cruiser_(nonfiction)&oldid=7456"