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"Of course there's a ton of data corresponding to things that aren't shown on the screen display! A monster that's behind a closed door still exists. It isn't generated at the moment you open the door." So you're saying that certain data was transmitted to the AI that was not made available to the ...

Wow that is a whole lot of speculation on the authors intent after just a couple pages.

Jeez people have a little patience. This is the outsider forums. We are used to just a couple of updates per year. Stop trying to guess dragoongfa intent after a couple of paragraphs

Well maybe Alex can figure out how lost in space he really is.

A command culture that is too 'top down' is likely to really reduce or eliminate an army's ability to exploit transient opportunities. Also, as Absalom was intimating, a military culture that has too much permission seeking is pretty vulnerable to disruptions of its command structure. Can't ask per...

You people are calling it a dump, cess pool, waste, personally i am calling it storage. look at all that shiny metal, we get a big enough pile we can use it to build a huge space ship to fly away on. We need the raw materials up there, and then when we get enough junk, we need to start working on sp...

Apple makes millions of iPhones a day, at full production the USA can build a carrier in less than two years.

Compare that production level to say Africa or an Amazonian tribe. The production levels are nearly that different.

hi hi In a setting where a galactic power has the technological sophistication and resources to deconstruct planets and utilize the entire energy output of stars, one might wonder why human sized space craft are a significant cost in resources. (And for that matter, one might wonder why there is a ...

With some time gone by since I saw the new film, I've had a little more time to digest it, and I think the biggest thing for me is this: I can live with a lot of the plot recycling involving the characters - to me (and "your mileage may vary") that can be chalked up to some obscure way The Force wo...

the EU was dropped due to size. You are talking about 25,000 years before yavin to 200 years after yavin. Every year after the battle of yavin was filled with stories or backgrounds for stories. They had to wipe it all clear. in the next few years in between major star wars movies will be anthology ...

They broke the Expand Universe. It is now called Legends. Anything that hasn't appeared on TV is no longer cannon. This is a good thing as Chewie is dead in the expanded universe. As for Kylo Ren, even his master could sense his light side presence. It was still in him. You can't be fully strong in ...

I would guess the Humans accidentally cut off the Umiak soldiers from attacking the Loroi. another possibility is that the humans were closer to he device and moving towards it, and were clearly not affected by it, hence they would be seen as the more dangerous foe since the Loroi are definitely ne...

Peragrin did you watch the video I posted in the beginning of the thread? It covers both creative and creative jobs, bots can do them both. Bots can't do the creative jobs. They can only do what they are programed too. put a puzzle that isn't in their library before them and a bot can't solve it. b...

And who will build the robots? who will design them? We are still a hundred plus years from actual AI. all we have now is really strong search systems. but even those have to have fixed parameters. We can barely have computers do pattern recognition when there is a large body of presorted and identi...

The USA has switched at least unofficially. schools teach metric first. So do colleges. National and state standards have to be listed in both. Basically it is old people who don't want to switch. You can't force those people, so you teach young people metric over and over again, make sure all label...

I guess it makes sense, to use that scope for recording what the operator of the gun is doing with it. But a simple usb port or so would be much safer than wifi. The fact that the wifi aspect is connected to the weapons ability to fire or data input is nothing short of terrifying. Its absurd to con...

The problem isn't in power requirements alone. It's also in targeting. As far as I remember, early 20th century military rifles were effective up to several kilometers, and early Lee-Enfields, for example, were equipped with a volley sight to use that. That means that the bullet had enough power to...

What kind of amenities does a Loroi bathroom have and are they as clean as the ones our females use? Toilets will be very recognizable (form follows fuction), though there's no need for a liftable seat -- any male using one would be required to sit down. The toilet on the shuttle is small, spartan,...

If I was getting strapped in by beryl I would be resisting less. So the shuttle doesn't have a jump engine which makes sense. I wonder if it will drop them off /then return and if stillstorm approved it's use or it is being borrowed by Tempo? Yes I can see Stillstorm allowing it's use to get rid of ...

rom the explosions Your sister stole your F. I suggest you go get it back by yelling F. :lol: Umiak strategy is simple multi prone attack. Stick X number of personal on the outside of the shuttle. The shuttle docks(by force if nesscary) and the inside troops attack. The outside troops sneak in thro...

Remember Babylon 5? There was an episode where they had a real gun, and a junior security officer asks, why do we use ppg(energy weapons) instead of real guns? That is because real guns could poke holes in the hull. Real guns in space also require something else, oxygen. you can't fire in a vacuum. ...