Imagine a world, much like our own, but slightly more technologically advanced, and much more commercial. Set in some near future the world has become a very different place. There's the real world, where America is split up into so many suburban enclaves, almost all absolutely identical and the Federal government is just one small nation-state among many others. Then there is the Metaverse, the internet as it might look in the future, a world that can be accessed through any computer, in which one can move about as an avatar, looking as one wishes. Snow Crash is a look at a possible future and the outcome of our present technology; how we rely heavily on computers for information storage and propagation. With this as a backdrop, Stephenson creates his main characters with curious abilities and histories, and brings together the story of a young man named Hiro Protagonist seeking to save not only his own skin, but the hide of the rest of the world as well. .
Hiro Protagonist is pizza delivery drivers slash computer hacker and Y.T., a female skateboarding courier, join forces to find out about a new designer drug that can crash hackers and computers. They discover that a religious fanatic named L. Bob Rife has begun to use the Metaverse, which is a futuristic mixture of virtual reality and the internet, to spread a computer virus that affects the minds of hackers and makes victims susceptible to brainwashing. I like a lot of what he imagines in the near future. Another aspect of the novel that I like is Stephenson's ability to point out what's still physically necessary despite cyberspace like couriers and pizza delivery. .
Even their names are a kind of parody on words. Some of the colorful characters in the book include a character by the name of Raven who is packing a thermonuclear weapon linked to a chip in his head, so that if he gets killed everyone goes up in a nice mushroom cloud.
Reasoning for plane crashes can be placed in a broad number of categories. ... Plane crashes occur for a number of reasons. ... By failing to activate the engine anti-ice system, large amounts of snow and ice that were sucked into the engines during reverse thrust was allowed to remain there. ... The aircraft rolled uncontrollably and crashed into the Everglades. ... Plane crashes are tragic. ...
., hijacked United Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North tower of the World Trade Center. 9:03 a.m., a second hijacked aircraft crashes into the South tower of the World Trade Center. ... United Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon and a huge cloud of smoke rises from the building. 10:05 a.m., the South tower of the World Trade Center collapses to the streets below. Clouds of dust and debris slowly drift away from the sight. 10:10a.m. hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashes to the ground in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. 10:28 a.m., the North tower of the World Trade Center fall...
However, the wheels that he attached to a pair of shoes crashed quickly because he couldn't stop. He literally crashed the party as he took out a full-length mirror. ... Scott & Brennan Olson's invention was an immediate hit with ice skaters and skiers because they could train without ice or snow. ... There are very few places in the world that have snow and ice during all seasons of the year. The benefit of the product was that you could turn asphalt into snow or ice. ...
The crash of the stock markets, insect plagues and Mother Nature were all bitter enemies to the prairie farmers during this timeframe. ... Farmers in particular took the brunt of the misfortune as they had more than a market crash to contend with. ... The drought was as some called it a year round blizzard, consisting of snow and dust. ... Snow was abundant but the hot dry suns of summer sucked any moisture the melted snow might have left behind. ... It seemed that the crash of the stock markets and the inhospitable drought was all the Canadians were able to handle but there was more. ...
In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Hills like White Elephants", and "In Another Country", Ernest Hemingway uses a great deal of dialogue to help the reader identify with the characters in the story to show the reader how he perceives the situation of his experiences. ... "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a great example of when Ernest Hemingway uses a great deal of dialogue to help the reader identify with the characters. ... "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is about a man who has just survived an airplane crash in Kenya. ...
Betrayal The snow mounted up over the jade branches of the fir trees that surrounded the log cabin. ... The snow crunched under the feet of the men who walked towards a whirring noise emanating from behind a derelict hut, of which the roof had caved in after years of heavy snow storms. ... Ben called Jon to come and assist him in the dubious task of looking for anything that would suggest a reason for the plane to crash. ... The snow was coming down like nothing he had seen before. ... As he went towards the sight of the plane crash he thought about the money that ...
Feb. 19, Southern Iran: An Iranian military airplane carrying members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards crashed in the Sirach Mountains of southeastern Iran en route to Kerman. ... Feb. 25, south-central U.S.: Snow and freezing rain in the south-central states caused the deaths of 14 people and closed highways across the region. ... Feb. 19, Southern Iran: An Iranian military airplane carrying members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards crashed in the Sirach Mountains of southeastern Iran en route to Kerman. ... Feb. 25, south-central U.S.: Snow and freezing rain in the south-central states ...
Life during the depression was very difficult, the hard economic time the United States was going through, due to unfortunate events like the New York stock market crash, made many people lose their jobs and gravely reduced the family income, making them have to cut many luxuries and reduce their expenses to their necessities. ... Sometimes during the winter...when the snow fell in Detroit they called for people that they wanted to shovel the snow, and of course everybody didn't get hired--you just had to go out there and the foreman or whoever would be throwing the shovel and if you h...
., $1.4 million was awarded when the court found the National Weather Service (NWS) was negligent in warning pilots of severe wind shear that resulted in an airplane crash. ... This in turn could lead to a forecast that varies from one inch of snow to eight inches. ... The result was a lack of warning of local severe wind conditions that led to the crash of an airplane. ... For example, a 70 percent chance of snow showers for the Denver metropolitan area does not guarantee that 70 percent of the area will see snow. ... In this example, any location can expect a 1 in 7 chance of seeing sn...
