What is performance testing Software performance testing is a means of quality assurance QA. Its time to power up your Windows 10 PC. Now that the Creators Update is available, lets take a look. Tag cloud of all sound tags from SoundBible. Words that are used more appear larger, words used only a few times are smaller. The Speakers of DEF CON 25. Speaker Index. 0 0ctane 0x00string A AlephNaughtHyrum Anderson Ayoul3 Dor Azouri. Direct access implies that the mainframe system can directly locate the desired data on the storage device. This is like reading a topic in a reference book. Nebulae in fiction Wikipedia. Nebulae, often being visually interesting astronomical objects, are frequently used as settings or backdrops for works of science fiction. General uses of nebulaeeditThe Young Black Stallion 1. Black Stallion series written by Walter Farley and Steven Farley. Young Alec Ramsay imagines a legendary origin for his magnificent black In it, the horse is none other than that celestial equine silhouetted in the Horsehead Nebula against a curtain of glowing gas and illuminated by millions of starsan image briefly glimpsed by him at the Hayden Planetarium years before. Our Tribe 1. Northern Exposure, written by David Assael and directed by Lee Shallat Chemel. In this episode reluctant physician Joel Fleischman undergoes a cultural conversion after receiving a goat as a gift from a grateful village elder, who insists on adopting him into her tribe, and the mysterious Holling Vincoeur shuts down the Brick restaurant, ostensibly to wax the floors. Vincoeur, an amateur astronomer, tells bush pilot Maggie OConnell about a star he is searching out in the Horsehead Nebula which he has purchased in honor of an old friend. The 1. 3 Lives of Captain Bluebear 1. German writer and cartoonist Walter Moers. The plot is set in the fictional continent of Zamonia and its capital Atlantis, before they sink beneath the waves, and concerns the fantastical antediluvian adventures of the character Bluebear. As he grows up and gains philosophical maturity he realizes that everything is connected, from the cellular structure of a dandelion seed to an exploding star in the Horsehead Nebula and that when you are in multidimensional space, you are everywhere at oncenot only on Earth, youre also on the moon and on Saturn, in the Horsehead Nebula and on Cassiopeias starry throne. Moers uses the nebula in these fancifully diverse compendia to illustrate the broad spectrum of natures possibilities. Rocket Man 2. Law Order Criminal Intent written by Siobhan Byrne OConnor and directed by Michael Smith. Goren and Eames investigate the murder of an astronaut in this ripped from the headlines take on the infamous escapades of NASA astronaut Lisa Nowakwho made a marathon automobile trip across the country wearing astronaut diapers and never stopping except to refuel to kidnap a romantic rival. Revolve Mainframe Tool' title='Revolve Mainframe Tool' />In the show, the space agency is NSA its headquarters are in New York City, and when the detectives visit they encounter a large interior translight depicting the Horsehead Nebula. Angels Demons 2. David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman based on the novel by Dan Brown, and directed by Ron Howard. A devious plot against the Catholic church involves the ritual tetra elemental themed slayings of four holy cardinals and the threatened destruction of the Vatican itself by means of the catastrophic annihilation of a phial of antimatter stolen from CERN. The antimatter has been produced by Father Silvano Bentivoglio subsequently murdered and the beautiful Dr. Vittoria Vetra romantically available at the Large Hadron Collider. When the films protagonist, Professor Robert Langdon, investigates, he is confronted in Bentivoglios office by a large poster displaying an image of the Hourglass Nebula. Front_Color-MilitaryGreen.jpg' alt='Revolve Mainframe Tool' title='Revolve Mainframe Tool' />There follow references to imaginary and real nebulae depicted as locations in space or the locations of planetary systems, categorized by genre. Imaginary nebulae in fictioneditAuthors of science fiction have occasionally created imaginary nebulae in response to special plotting needs. Legends of Smiths Burst 1. Brian Aldiss and published in Nebula Science Fiction. Jami Lancelo Lowther, the peripatetic interstellar loan shark, is taking it on the lam. He books passage to New Droxy on an illegal matter transmitter, whose substandard beam deposits him instead on the planet Glumpalt deep in the disturbed space of Smiths Burst, a notable intragalactic nebula. Here he suffers many indignities and tricks many adversaries, and witnesses as well the rising of the black sun, an antimatter star that appears as a great sooty ball, crammed with darkness, radiating blackness. Burst from the collision of two clouds of cosmic gas, one of them composed of antimatter, a confluence which led in due time to the formation of the remarkable Glumpalt, as well as its liberal deposits of antimatter sustained antigravity stones. Berserker Blue Death 1. Berserker series by Fred Saberhagen. In this 2. 5th century retelling of Herman Melvilles classic tale, obsessive Miles Domingo of Shubra plays Ahab to the Moby Dick of Leviathan aka Old Blue, an automated alien warship programmed to destroy life. Domingo and his irregular human force ratchet up a game of cat and mouse with the Berserker craft through the murky corridors of the dense Milkpail Nebula Even the brightest suns could no longer be located with any certainty amid the thickening, muffling clouds of white, off white, and gray, the ever changing pastel shades of perpetual interstellar dawns and sunsets. During this running battle Domingo discovers, establishes mental rapport with, and recruits the aid of the Nebulons, mysterious energy based lifeforms inhabiting the unexplored reaches of the Milkpail compare the telepathic nebular being in A Kind of Artistry by Brian Aldiss, below. In Saberhagens deft modernization of the hoary but useful alien monster theme, the unrelenting Berserkers seem almost tangibly chill with the unlivingness of the Universe. The Chronicles of Andromeda 2. Annabella Bouk and Pamela Brooke Mc. Paul Anka Papa Midi S on this page. Ilrath. In this fantasy series, three planets revolve around a sun named Ryleta. Though this series is not science fiction, and therefore does not focus on the layout or habitat of the galaxy, astronomy is mentioned quite a lot, and is based on the position of planets in the galaxy. The Andromeda constellation is mentioned in the second book. Real nebulae in fictioneditThe following sections exhibit a collection of real nebulae that contain imaginary stars or planetary systems, or that otherwise serve as settings for works of science fiction. The Andromeda Galaxy, formerly known as the Andromeda Nebula. Revolve Mainframe Tool' title='Revolve Mainframe Tool' />Spiral nebula cataloged as M3. Although this object is now known to be a galaxy, some authors aim for an archaic flavor by referring to it using its historical designation as a nebula see graphic. For works of fiction which feature Andromeda as a galaxy, see Galaxies in fiction. The great nebula in Andromeda passed under them, a whirling pancake of cold fire. Dead Ahead as Ultimate Quest, 1. This article contains too many or toolengthy quotations for an encyclopedic entry. Please help improve the article by editing it to take facts from excessively. I am conducting a statistical count of the Cepheid variables in the Great Nebula of Andromeda. The Absent Minded Professor as First Star I See Tonight, 1. No problem there Ill take you to the Great Nebula if you like. Space Opera, 1. 96. Andromeda Line. Great Nebula. Milton Hack from Zodiac as The Man from Zodiac, 1. Great Nebula in Andromeda, spinning, reeling, flashing, glimmering, alone and tremendous in the darkness of space. The View from Chickweeds Window, 1. Great Spiral Nebula. Araminta Station, 1. I mentioned Emperor Schulz, who owned the Great Nebula in Andromeda. Throy, 1. 99. 2Mass Effect Andromeda 2. Bio. Ware Montreal and published by Electronic Arts. The game is a spin off of the original Mass Effect trilogy, set 6.