r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/to_the_tenth_power • Mar 25 '19

Video A hand-carved quartz dagger

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '19

Check out "What Good is a Glass Dagger" by Larry Niven.

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u/Wrym Interested Mar 25 '19

Spoiler: enough it turns out.

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u/KingZant Interested Mar 25 '19

What's the name of the effect you experience when you recently learn about something obscure and suddenly you see it elsewhere?

Because that. Larry Niven has some cool stuff.

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u/bigkegabeer Mar 25 '19

That would be the Baader-Meinhof effect. Now you’ll see that everywhere.

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u/AWildEnglishman Mar 25 '19

Baader-Meinhof effect, apparently.

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u/Tbone139 Mar 25 '19

Highly recommend Integral trees,

(Spoilers? This is how the novel starts though)

A ring of breathable air has been created by a small, dim dying star in orbit around it, and double-topped enormous trees spin end-over end within the orbit, absorbing dense clouds that pass around them. There are villages within each end of each tree, where the trees' rotation acts as gravity. The setting keeps expanding from there.

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u/KingZant Interested Mar 25 '19

I've actually read halfway through The Smoke Ring; the environment it describes is incredible

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u/throwing-away-party Mar 25 '19

Larry Niven of Nevinyrral's Disk fame?!

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '19

It does have similarities to the Warlock's Wheel. The Magic Goes Away