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Until we have more interaction with Umiak, we're just not going to know what klick-klack-tallywack's motivations or truthfulness are. I think that Stillstorm will have to take it at it's word and make decisions based on the best tactical analysis she's got. I don't think it's been discused, yet, but...

still sunk. I think............

alright, you do realize that the time you spent on that, you'll never get back, right?.....................

....And, perhaps, more interesting, is that these individuals would relish contact with humans, as it would be so refreshing to them to not hear the noise of spurious thoughts, nor the machinations of another's plots and schemes. The quiet intercourse of verbal conversation might be as soothing as a...

Minor issue: A victorian warship (or indeed a nepoleanic ship, if it could get its guns high enough) could easily 'soft kill' a WWII battleship by taking out the bridge and fire control stations, which would blind and thus silence the main guns. I would speculate that HMS Dreadnought (a very late e...

Good for you! Let us know how much your electric bill rises, M'kay? ;) Meanwhile, until your new unicorn poop-fueled generators start churning out all of that clean, renewable power, maybe you guys can buy more electricity from your neighbors....... who are still using nuke-power and fossil fuels af...

One thing that I do find that seems very Star Trek is 3-D printers, which are growing more sophisticated by the day. I forsee a point where a design (mechanical or biological) will be loaded and within minutes a completed "copy" will be produced. Biological applications appear to be most promising a...

<ahem> The real point I was trying to make (before the flame degeneration) is that mankind in general is pretty quick on its feet, technologically. The Loroi and Umiak technology is pretty impressive, but their science is not. I still think that Terrans, given some pretty basic technologies enjoyed...

Thanks for the answers, they reaffirmed some of the suspicions I had about each peoples' histories of warfare. Though I like to believe that if either species learned that humanity had detonated huge numbers of nuclear weapons as both a "pissing contest" and an act of territorialism that they would...

Okay, so the "whiff" guys- Do they even know that they're screwed? Are they all looking at their watches going "man, this commute gets worse every day!".

Aside from new energysources/powerplants that´s the most important goal: Vastly increase computing power. Leave silicon-based structures, leave binary system. There´s a whole new world beyond, i´m sure. I think it's predicted that computing power will surpass the human brain within our lifetimes an...

Question? How would the Umiak or Loroi react to the fact that humanity has detonated over 2000 nuclear and thermonuclear weapons on our planet during a fifty year time span? (Over one half of those were done by America and around 40% by the USSR). How did the Loroi and Umiak deal with their own nuc...

Superweapons always have some drawback. Otherwise they are just weapons and you sprinkle them about your hull like candy toppers. Fiction superweapons are mostly limited by some rarity; resource, power consumption, logistics factor. Real life superweapons are limited by effect that are unwanted by ...

And can anyone point out the owner of the rash statement below?

bunnyboy wrote:

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But there´s little sense in denying their downsides: Panamax demands made them too slender, and their center of gravity was too high. In harsh conditions they were no good gun platform. Eh? The Iowas could keep acccurate fire even during the most harsh manouvers. They were an excellent fireing plat...

but it wasn't even that, if they just covered say 30% of their full border (like all of their border with Germany, and Belgium plus some). They would have forced the germans to move through a lot mountains. Even IF you're thinking technology hasn't changed it was positively MORONIC to think that le...

http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrossdyrl/meltran-flagship/meltran-flagship.gif Nope. Sorry. That ship pulling into orbit could only mean that, henceforth, all of our wallpaper, window-treatments and upholstery will be perfectly coordinated under the new regime.......Not that there's anything wrong wi...

...How many more Catgirls must die before this thread ends????? :lol: And for what it's worth, the two submissions are reminiscent of Babylon 5 and Space Cruiser Yamato in general appearance. Not that that's a bad thing. The adoption of alien tech is certainly a Babylon 5 concept, though humans tend...

Hello All,

I've been a fan of Outsider for some time now (intro'd @ page 18 IIRC) and have been hanging on every update and addition. Glad I can finally talk to someone and take part in the banter. Give a shout if there are any submarine veterans here.