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'Ground Density' (fiction)

Some of this material may not be suitable for younger readers. © 2022, 2025 Theron Jackson. All rights reserved.  DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. The characters and incidents portrayed and names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person, location, building, event or product is entirely coincidental and unintentional. ------ Dr. Black pondered, "We need something that will act as a catalyst. Something dense and hard enough not to shatter — some kind of crystal, but electrically neutral." Thinking a bit Dr. Brown replied, "Granite?" Professor Green looking encouraged, replied, "We're in a city made of the stuff."  Dr. Black interjected, "No, that's far too much; we can't generate that kind of energy. —Besides I don't fancy explaining why, if we knocked out the power to half the city." Professor Green chuckling remarked, "We can't produce that kind of power." D...

'No Nukes' (fiction)

Some of this material may not be suitable for younger readers. © 2022, 2025 Theron Jackson. All rights reserved.  DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. The characters and incidents portrayed and names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person, location, building, event or product is entirely coincidental and unintentional. ------ The president sat pondering the situation. He had exhausted all diplomatic options and was finally fed up with the other countries blatant disregard for life and human rights. The out of control regime had began indiscriminately using nerve agents, not only on their own people (many of which were fleeing the country), but the surrounding counties in the region, threatening U.S. interests. After several days of great consternation and much debate amongst his advisors and cabinet people he decided to use the nuclear option.  Upon calling the Marine with the football over to his desk, he informed the ...

AI Image Generators

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At first we were going to put some AI images, that we generated on various online generators, on a separate blog. However, after a quick Google search the AI indicated that X.com is a popular platform for sharing those images. So, we figured why fool with another blog, easier just to upload to X. However decided to make a related post here on our main blog. With a few thoughts and examples. Listed in alphabetical order. __ Craiyon.com   A seemingly completely free image generator. Just to mention, since we did try it. It is somewhat slower than some of the others we tried, and the images (although actually quite good in composition), were somewhat blurry. It does seem to allow an unlimited number of image creation without requiring an account. The images of free accounts are published publicly on their site, those of account holders apparently are not. __ DeepAI.org   A good generator, with the many available options, but only allows generation of two hundred free ...