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You could ask the Farseer if she thinks she detected something during the fraction of a second that a ship is in hyperspace, but even if she says 'yes,' there's no way I can think of to test whether this detection was real or imagined. I my "theory" about "farseeing" i don´t think minds do have an ...

"Jumping ships are only in hyperspace for a fraction of a second, so I think this would be difficult to prove one way or another." What's true of the ships is also true of the minds, not so? What I mean is that even if telepathy and farsensing do work between hyperspace and real spacetime, I don't ...

"Jumping ships are only in hyperspace for a fraction of a second, so I think this would be difficult to prove one way or another."

What's true of the ships is also true of the minds, not so?

That's very cool. However, one questions then--why are you still using chess pieces, when nothing about this game seems related to chess?

Sorry if this has been answered already, but are the rules for this game posted anywhere?

"My bet is still, that Farseers do not detect minds directly, but their impact on the fabric of sub- or Hyperspace, since farseeing is FTL"

That's very clever, but if true, shouldn't they be able to detect ships in transit as well?

So their pointy ears are an evolutionary vestige? Like an appendix?

Ok, I admit that I am a little confused. My understanding was that copying an artist's style isn't copyright infringement regardless of who or what is doing it (provided, of course, that no one claims that the new image is an original). How would you police style anyway? What counts as close enough ...

Wouldn't it be easier for AI companies to place restrictions on their LLM's output, rather than the training input? It's not copyright infringement if the customer cant get to see it.

Also, if the "bandwidth" of Loroi telepathy is limited, then it might make sense to be able to stroll over to someone else's workstation and just look at the screens there (mostly relevant to the deck officer, I would imagine). Computer screen data display imposes certain constraints regardless of o...

I doubt we are inferior to the Loroi at all in terms of one on one combat. We might even have the advantage. But in unit tactics and operations? The ability of the Loroi to network themselves psychically is a game breaker. We could, of course, try to make up for that with radio and head up displays ...

I suspect that Snoofman actually wanted some version of *reluctant* agreement.

Can I buy one at the mall?

No tutorials, then?

Ok, so maybe this thing is the last survivor of a wave assault that got past another Loroi/team, which managed to stop the others and damage this one. Any guesses who that was? If Beryl has lost mental communication with the other Loroi, then she can no longer see through walls (if she ever could), ...

Loroi hair.

Interestingly, anti-orbit laser submarines was the subject of one of Matterbeam's "Tough SF" blog posts, and he comes down solidly on the side of the submaries: https://toughsf.blogspot.com/2017/10/anti-orbit-laser-submarines.html By "Laser" he ends up meaning "Maser". Oh well, close enough for gove...

Pah! Pulse lasers, my friends, the future belongs to pulse lasers.

"If that's the case, would you consider a particle beam shot into a planetary atmosphere (with a large percentage of oxygen in it) a weapon of mass destruction?" Well, a weapon of mass cliche, anyway. "I feel like they would have had a requirement when procuring these handheld weapons that it not ca...

"8" might be a setting one really shouldn't use indoors, unless one enjoys truly explosive surprises.