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Zero Gravity at junctions is interesting.

It's not even that complicated. All you have to do is sync clocks with a ship or station in the departure system before you jump, then jump back and compare clocks. An even simpler method (which I envisioned for Traveller a couple of decades ago) is a "Zero-Point Jump" -- jumping to the same (or ne...

The facial expressions seem kind of odd without the shading.

Man, I've been around since page fifty. My mother printed out and mailed me page 75 in June 2010 when I was off doing Army stuff and didn't have access to a computer. I was with Outsider when we were on the old forums hosted over at digital webbing and when we all migrated in 2011. Count Casimir ca...

Which as I have maintained throughout is properly expressed on the Sievert scale. Indeed, however it is also necessary to explain to people - the education problem I mentioned - the difference between a becquerel , a gray and a sievert . Simply (perhaps overly so) put: Becquerel is number of decays...

So fallout is bad because its scary. Not because it presents physical bodily harm. "Fallout" is a boogeyman. The "rational" concern about fallout as I understand it is of radioactive particulates entering the body (in sufficient quantities) via ingestion or inhalation and decaying inside the body. ...

The whole you cant measure an object without changing an object concept is a bit hard to wrap you head around. If you imagine that you're measuring a piece of really soft cheese with some hard metal calipers then the thought "it leaves a dent" can help, but I think that you really have to wrestle w...

Then go ahead, traitor. It bit strong given we have already had one warning about this thread. :( I also find such passionate disputation can lead one to misunderstanding your opponents point and trap you in our own even if it turns out to be incomplete or fallacious. First let us review the 2 main...

From what Arioch has said humans in Outsider might be longer lived than Loroi. Loroi: "potentially living for 400 years or more" Terran: "current average life expectancy today is 65 years", "I wouldn't be surprised if average life expectancy doubled in the next 50-100 years, and continued to extend...

With regard to the negotiation of an alliance (or Union membership) I thought it might help If I pulled some of the "facts" together in one place (from insider, past forum discussions and my perhaps unreliable memory [so please jump in if you spot an error]). Total Population: Terrans: 25 billion (~...

The out-tech part comes from the Historians. Ah, so the Historians are going to hand us tech and the Loroi won't know or care about it What can they do? After the war, when they´re worn out? I´m not talking about a short time span of a few months. That the Historians will approach us at doesn't see...

Near certainty. The Loroi and our own handlers would be stupid to not create Loroi celebrities in our culture and the value of a "marriage" in that field would be immense. It won't happen right away obviously, but that Loroi action star marrying the studly pop singer? Oh yes, it's going to happen s...

An Alliance has not yet been formed. If the Loroi " negotiation " fleet after much effort and time determine that humanity really is an Umiak plot or humanity is secretly dealing with the Umiak or humanity is not negotiating in good faith or that humanity just wouldn't work out with the Loroi union...

Given that if the Loroi do choose to purge humanity, they will go to great lengths to prevent anyone else finding out about the human Lotai No purging. The cat is already out of the bag for this one, since the Barsam and the Historians know about us. So what? An Alliance has not yet been formed. If...

... Uncanny valley ... I am familiar with the concept. I've always thought it has a lot to do with a) 'inhuman movement'; b) lack of a 'soul'/conscious life. I am suggesting that our constant, impenetrable Lotai might subconsciously register as a "lack of 'soul'". What you say makes for an interest...

Exactly my point, the Loroi do not have the time to wait for humanity to play catch up. They are in a battle that is rapidly escalating and need a quick and easy solution. Glassing humanity would be the only thing they have time for, as they barely have enough ships to protect themselves, let alone...

Why would the Umiak use humans? They have their own specially modified gene soldiers to man ships. I do not understand the point here. We have Lotai, they don't. But only one human and zero Umiak knows this and the Loroi can control who that one human ever gets to talk to. Given that if the Loroi d...

Humans don't have telepathy. In the absence of a telepathic link with the human male, the *only* way for a Loroi woman to establish intimacy with a human male is you-know-what. The question is just how interested in intimacy would a Loroi female be? We humans have the hypothesis of the Uncanny vall...

For those who desire uber effective mass drivers in outsider-like universes there is a glimmer of hope in the form of 3 named future technologies: Inertial Dampers Artificial Gravity Reactionless Drives Insider mentions these technologies existing, (the probably of having a common underlying piece o...