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It wasn't evolutionary though, the infanticide is purely an emplaced social behavior to deal with rampant starvation and their groupthink solution to the prisoner's dilemma. There is nothing to excuse because there is no moral problem for the Silicates; they removed anyone who would cause a problem-...

Have we covered fission fragment drives yet? Because Isps of 100,000 to 1,000,000 are amazing on this side of antimatter- Plus! the reaction mass is also the powerplant when you decelerate the ionized medium. Refueling would be an odd affair if one didn't design a revolver sort of system internally,...

Three Worlds Collide "Everyone wants to make everyone else live their way." Great premise, terrible conclusion, terrible alternate conclusion. In a first contact scenario like that, someone twisted like me would've been the crew's saving grace. My Reaction to the Silicates: "We disagree with you, bu...

Verhoven's first propaganda piece was significant in that it provides an in to better science fiction, even Heinlein's actual unmolested work, for the general consumer. Roughneck Chronicles, a nice mix between Verhoven's "adaptation" and the Heinlein classic, is the definitive military drama of my c...

It's all technobabble and personal preference in the end, I just have fun analysing other people's data and observations.

http://www.stardestroyer.net/tlc/Power/ Sorry, the lighter belly cannons have anywhere from 1/2 a hiroshima of energy up to 8 hiroshimas, the evidence is strong for 8 hiroshimas; the dorsal batteriees have much more powerful projectors- 12Hs for each heavy turbolaser on a SDDs primary batteries is a...

Nah, I was actually going by some numbers that weren't math-checked. The average SDD turbolaser, just one out of a turreted battery of six or eight, holds something like twelve hiroshimas of energy in each discharge. Star wars society is ridiculously advanced, all labor in even the barely civilised ...

hi hi One long hyperspace jump might be faster than a bunch of short ones, but it significantly increases the risk of missing your target and being lost in hyperspace forever. Or if you're slightly less unlucky, getting pulled out by a random star that just happened to be in your path, probably bil...

I'll take it. Star Wars: WMD-class Turbolasers; galactic hyperdrive; robots do everything important while politicians faf about Star Trek: scanners and replicators with raw materials and energy-on-hand as the only limitation; warp-speed combat maneuvers Star Trek wins after a few months analysing th...

Ooooh, alright, I know how that is, needing a time machine to get to everything I don't have the time for.

I only ask if I can... alleviate any... economic stressors to Arioch's pursuit of this comic, this artistic endeavor of his that we all so much enjoy to a great degree, BECAUSE I've been waiting for over a year, I think, since the last update. I'd rather not be introducing my grandchildren to the st...

Arioch, man, you're killing me here- give me a number, an estimate, weekly, monthly, yearly, daily, rough or otherwise; what do I need to pay you to get my Outsider fix on a schedule (a dependable one)?

Well shit, that's a big leg up, having the ship's wright as the chief engineer. As for what humans space can offer the loroi? materials, a 'canyon-pass' the Umiak don't know about (unless they intercepted another human ship or any survivors from the bellarmine) and new outposts in that pass. What ca...

hi hi Actually, yes. The speed of light is intrinsically linked to the passage of time. This is not an optical illusion, or a trick of perception. The ability to travel faster than the speed of light will allow travelers to break causality. The science of why this is the case is very strongly suppo...

hi hi Just because it looks like the spacecraft is travelling faster than light to someone on Earth, does not mean it is. This is totally false. Its all relative. The speed of light is invariant in all reference frames, and things don't move faster than it in any reference frame, not just the refer...

I'm waiting to see how they start utilising the plausibility of multiple crew UAVs. As far as I know, every drone is operated by one guy, maybe two for surveilance, but I'm pretty sure every single UAV station is a one-man affair.

That was a great article. There's a follow-up to it: The F-1B Not only did NASA reverse-engineer the engine, one of the companies in the Advanced Booster Competition is using that data to create the F-1's successor, the F-1B. Same beast, modern tech. Fun times. :twisted: It's called institutional s...

Lasers: I tend to assume they fill a wide range of target engagement parameters, but at a certain point whatever array you're using to get so much single-hit output from will become fairly large. By and far away the most accurate. Mass Drivers: the faster the slugs need to go, the smaller you need t...

No idea if anyone made this assumption yet, but I'm getting the feeling that the Historians are playing both sides of this conflict.