Paulsen waded out into the space that had once been a grand ballroom; he avoided the steady downpour of seawater from a leak in the glass dome above. "How long ago was this place abandoned?" he called out to Finch.

In a different time and place the ruins would have been preserved forever as a monument. The first permanent settlement on Europa marked an achievement worth of remembering. But resources being what they are, Verne Colony II may only survive if we can strip enough equipment from the original pods and nobody has much…

The aquarium has been stripped completely. Nothing usable, at least nothing worth the cost of transport, was left in it. Jafe was calling in the bad news, attention fixed on wording the news so that no one would resent the cost of the expedition, which had, so far, no found anything in all their journey worth…

Pluto is a Dwarf Planet, or perhaps they should be called Bastard Planets. As all dwarfs may be bastards, but not all bastards need be drawfs.

It seems you missed the word "brisk" in front of the word walk. If you're just slowly walking as little as possible to get where needed, it's not considered exercise. Also everything Ann Hiro already replied with.

Oddly enough, though I live in the suburbs north of Cincinnati, it appears that I walk far more than you do. After my 20 mile drive to work, it's about a 0.3 mile walk to my desk. Next stop, in-building convenience store for coffee, soda, etc. 0.5 mile round trip. Repeat as needed. Oh, and the cafeteria, yeah, that's…

Yeah pretty much up and down the two states it is that way. Same deal with Oregon wines. The wine in the pac nw is quite remarkable and deserves note but as you said, beer drinkers. Between my living in Seattle and a mill town north of portland and portland and down in Eugene, I not only drank and drink beer and very…

You don't even need to airdrop your car in for New Hampshire—they conveniently have ginormous liquor stores right off exits on the highways.

Damn, I hope we get some really good Pluto and Charon pairing shots.

This is why New Yorkers (like Hong Kongers) tend to be a bit thinner on average. You have to walk a lot.

Have you ever tried walking through all those things you just mentioned?
Holes, animals, cars, tree roots, etc. will wreck you unless you're constantly watching your step. Not that hard to see why so many people don't bother. Also, according to Smug McNewYawk over there, everything you need to do you can get there by…

Can you imagine just how awful it must be to live in a country where the state and media collude in a turd volcano of disinformation to trample the populace into a perpetual state of fear, ignorance and supplication!?

The good news is hopefully the sushi on the west coast is still fantastic

That's easy for you to say, living in New York. Living in a place where things are more spread out is less likely to lead to being active. Where I live, if I didn't specifically set aside time for exercise I would never get it. My job is 20 miles from my home, and there's no public transit, so I drive my car to and…

a) Despite what Hollywood would have you think, the world is not New York.

Just don't mix certain hobbies.

It's hardly a Kingdom. More of a principality? A collection of bickering duchies? The introduction of the Citra hop has riven the land in twain, and all over the Willamette valley we watch the lights of peace flicker out, not to be re-lit in our lifetimes. All is chaos as Ninkasi has forsaken the hop and moved to…

The Cascadian Wine Kingdom will suffer civil upheaval which results in the Inland Wine Empire and the Northwest Pale Ale Republic..