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The problem is that "enemy settlements" are usually located on planets, which, in turn, are at least a couple of jumps from the front line, and usually even further. Taking into account the local transport system, it is impossible to pass unnoticed by cordons and patrols, which means that in order ...

Not really ... just make sure your passive survey covers the entire surface during local night and map out the locations of the brightest patches of light (cities), the strongest radar/radio sources (military), and the heaviest pollution (industry). Jim meant that if you managed to get close to the...

My example was admittedly crude, but it did serve its purpose demonstrating that aliens can commit the same actions that would get any human labeled as racist. Since these aliens can also learn, understand and use a human language, they are also capable of picking up the same motivation. The issue ...

And what's stopping aliens from being offensive towards some humans based on race once these aliens have learned to keep the human races apart from each other? Nothing. Mmm, I don't know, unwillingness to doing nonsense, for example? If we write off aliens from humans (and judging by the course of ...

Yes, which is why we do not call people that only hate one race of dogs racist. But are you denying personhood to the alien or the human here? The example with dogs is for illustration purposes. In fact, with animals in general. Some species of dolphins or monkeys are very smart and even know how t...

Wrong, as aliens would be able to perceive race differences between humans. Just as there are lots of people that hate pitbulls but have no problem with dogs in general. Only we still don't call people who don't like pit bulls racists. I understand that from the outside it may look like speculation...

In principle, it's a logical extrapolation. True, in my personal timeline, I called this technology an Artificial Personality. In the end, AI, if you look at it abstractly, is nothing more than a super-complex OS that "does what you told it to do". AP, or whatever you have, AS is distinguished by th...

The concept of “Specism” has been kicked around the vegan websites for years, so it it not new; neither is the idea of hating another being for no other reason than being a member of a certain species — humans versus insects and rodents, for example. Then there is the conflation of “race” and “spec...

No. They can be racist in relation to their species, and not to humans. The very word "racism" refers to race, i.e. parts of the SPECIES. A man who despises dogs is a racist? Is the dolphin-hating man a chauvinist? This whole set of beliefs, norms and ideologies applies exclusively to PEOPLE. In re...

Well, yes. Racism is a purely "intrahuman" term. It is mainly synthetic, in order to designate a special case of chauvinism, which partially refers to xenophobia as a biological aspect. It is inapplicable to any non-human species, because it is based on human social relations, and not on their real ...

No. They will not receive. Micrometeorites. There are a bunch of them in space, and the proploid Naam, for example, is a huge pile of dust and gas. If you even fly an interplanetary spacecraft - protection from micrometeorites, as well as protection from oncoming radiation - this is an alphabet, the...

EMP is much less effective in space than in the atmosphere. First, due to the absence of ionization of the atmosphere, for obvious reasons. And secondly, the hull of any ship or rocket is in itself an excellent screen for EMP, like the hull of a submarine. Any kinetic shrapnel in space is ineffectiv...

The rockets of the Hierarchy are loaded with antimatter. "Disabling" will lead to their detonation, since first of all, the antimatter containment system will fail.

Part of the problem is that in SW nukes apparently don't exist or are never used. So it either takes fleets to pound away at a planet for a prolonged period or megastructures like the deathstar which can one-shot planets as easily as tiny fighter craft can one-shot it What in the sense that it does...

I tried to calculate the fire density of the 51st, but since not every weapon is actually front-facing, it didn't work. Anyway, since it worked in the comic, it was effective enough. Yes, the resulting rate of fire of close-range defense will be less than the calculated one - because the rate of fi...

1) Given the RoF of single gun, this is very small. Calculating the rate of fire of an individual cluster is generally a thankless task, it is completely ridiculous, by modern standards, when the RoF of missile defense weapons is measured in HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of rounds per second with comparabl...

1) I meant that the conditional "hitpoint" is one. It's just that if we look at the tables, the close-range weapons inflict sustained damage at a distance of ~ 20 Mm, AMM have an even smaller effective interception range. If the conditional "hitpoint" is even equal to two, then the effective range o...

1) Judging by the tables - 1. Otherwise, the radius of point defense is generally ridiculous. 2) The people at Outsider have clearly not yet reached the possibility of industrial production of AM. In addition, such a rocket will be much more cumbersome and not necessarily more effective - after all,...

In fact, the opinion that a person as a whole is inclined towards altruism is a myth. The person is extremely selfish. It's just that a number of our needs can be satisfied only through interaction with other people, social or otherwise. Meeting these needs breeds love, friendship, partnership and a...

AND that’s the main reason I’m not giving anything more worthwhile to Hollywood today than toilet paper ... or something I absolutely hate.