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hi hi Occam's Razor is not a method of choosing between different results, it is a heuristic for simplifying hypothesis that provide the same results, with the intent of testing as few variables as possible in any given experiment. Simpler hypothesis are easier to test and harder to confuse. Now, i...

There are a few variables one needs to consider. The first is that this would need to be a second ship the Loroi couldn't know about, and the reasons for the first are unique to the species crewing it(but could theoretically be replicated by a sterile ship and robotic crew). The second is that the o...

Then of course you have the fact that while English is most likley the most common operational language thanks to rules probably grandfathered in from modern aerospace, there's still a whole lot more languages whereas literally all three whole Loroi planets speak just the one language and a few dial...

The thing is an umbilical cable will invariably be a weakness that can be exploited on any warship. Unless you add a retractable layer of armor or something. But at that point you're just adding more and more moving parts that go from the soft inner guts of the ship to the hardened shell meant to ke...

She has a PARTIAL map of letter to sound in english, a language so hopelessly complicaited that you can get like a hundred additional sounds by combining improbable letters. If a Listel is ever going to bother learning english, which is the language they'd need to learn due to raw precedence regardi...

Of course for all we know Beryl may find Alex a little too vanilla. Her definition of Alien is based on giant spiky dudes and carnivorous raptor people.

Given how much various human subspecies wound up reproducing with each other, I don't think that's really a problem even with your analogy. Though I think there's also the fact that he got thrown in with the three or four members of the species that have the weird fetishes, mental complexes, and gen...

I think the biggest indicator of how useful the other groups view earth is probably based on how useful they are to a species that's only a few steps behind. I.E. Humanity. Remember that there's only two other life bearing worlds in human space, and they aren't overly habitable or advanced, even to ...

There's a big difference between an overt deception and a lie of omission, and even lower than that is to just not supply information that wasn't asked for.

Fan theory Beryl sure has a lot of ultreior motives for a species really bad with ulterior motives.

Of course given he's an alien species with an unknown ability who's only connection is that to him they are an alien species who use superstition as factual power, odds are there's someone out there on the ship who thinks Alex is literally stealing their luck.

I think if I'm understanding Arioch correctly, he's saying that their relationships and concepts pertaining to relationships such as "love", are different from our current human norms, but not by so great a gap as past norms of ours have been. So, to put it simply: no the Loroi instincts are not pa...

That doesn't really answer my question though.

hi hi Perhaps some Loroi are more picky about their food than others. I've certainly known some prodigiously picky humans when it comes to food. Once, I was at a party, and some people there had a hour plus long discussion about all the foods they won't eat. The one that I remember most clearly tho...

I think the most relevant question there is exactly how much do former Soia planets even have in terms of flavor variation in terms of what's even available. The whole empire mostly farms one grain type and if what we see Alex eating is any indication there isn't much processing or flavoring going o...

Simon Lake developed a lot of the technology for the modern submarine after reading a bunch of Jules Verne books. That same author's books also inspiring a lot of work on the modern helicopter by Igor Sikorsky. Then you have Goddard's explicit influence from H.G. Wells, as well as numerous other sci...

I would say there are a lot of inventions that only exist because the inventor heard about it in fiction first. Even if you discount those, the word only gets out as fast as it does in a lot of cases because "Remember X from Y, it's totally real now!", which will usually gather attention long before...

Sure, cultural sharing is something humans like to do, but it's more a question of what the Loroi might take an interest in / already have an interest in . And of course there's the issue of getting that info out there. By the time you've gone to a planet with initial material, gotten your data, an...

The problem is designing a good replacement in this political climate. While the current administration is bellyaching over costs they sure as hell won't fund another design.

To loop back to the A-10 discussion, you guys are all a little bit behind the curve. If the A-10 was hated before it's probably a bit less now. That is to say, that the people who actually flew them are now the ones making the decisions. Congresswoman McSally being the most obvious example since tha...