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I think humanity needs to show that we are non-threating but also able to be a threat if made to be an enemy. Otherwise we are pushovers and next target for whoever wins the war. We need to show being our friend is better than being our enemy and that enemies will not profit off us if at war. That ...

What if the Loroi made Alexa? Well, it would very much depend on the personality of the Loroi designing it. Let's base it on some of our main characters: Alex: "Alexa, what's the Pythagorean Theorem?" Alexa Beryl: "In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relat...

Regarding eyeballs: Eyeballs are exceptionally resilient. In school during a biology class we where given cow eyes to dissect. That was HARD to do, that eyeball resisted the scalpel a lot. On the other hand, I had eye surgery a few years back to replace one of my lenses with an artifical one. It wa...

Regardless of that, there should be "soft limits" to how quickly the Umiak (or any other species) can replace battlefield casualties. Someone has to provide the food, care, and other essentials during childhood. It's a little bit like the rocket equation--how many productive workers are required to...

dat math stuff... To bring my analysis in line with the OP, if you were to use the full power output of the drive to accelerate a single proton from rest... ...it would theoretically be traveling over 800 billion times the speed of light! So Arioch's presumption seems to be on the level: Even accou...

Nice calculations... but there is more. The Tempest... like other Loroi warships... and she is an older model, can do 30g for 100 hours before exhausting their fuel supply. So that is ultimately more energy than I reckon some ENTIRE countries produce in a year lol. It is safe to say that Loroi do n...

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Sun Dec 25, 2022 10:19 pm

Merry Christmas

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(I'll replace this with the final image when it's finished.)

"The Grinchbusters Squadron"

Merry Christmas, everyone!

The internet and televised detergent commercials are why there's a Fermi paradox. heh... why detergent, specifically? Well, imagine tuning into an alien communication network and the first thing you see is a Billy Mays infomercial. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Billy_Mays_Port...

What do the umiak do for torture? There are a limited number of ways to torture without killing, but that still leaves an awful lot of ways. Going medieval on someone is a popular phrase for unmitigated brutality. Think about it. You really don't want it to go further than this. Hint: Look at the t...

Not really, the legends do form some sort of ancestor veneration, but not at the level of what we know as a religion. Some subcultures might have different beliefs, and a few may even convert to the Barsam religion, though. Most won't think too much about it, however, or adopt a similar stance as B...

The solution, therefore, is two-fold: You need to get your carriers (who can provide some measure of protection) as close to the target as possible Doing that, it is the carriers that you risk losing, along with everyone and everything on board all at once. So what you need to do is a thorough camp...

It's been a while, and I can't recall if it's ever been addressed before, do the smurfs have a belief in the afterlife? I know they have legends, those that are oddly familiar with Earth's. Not really, the legends do form some sort of ancestor veneration, but not at the level of what we know as a r...

So who is to say with their overpowered tech and supermaterials Loroi could not tech something out for slowing a person's fall 300 km up? The biggest difficulty in any type of invasion is getting your soldiers from their carriers and into a position where they can engage the enemy. It's a problem b...

For me, as long I can be made to believe that it is a form of telepathic communication, separate and distinct from spoken communication, that would be sufficient. It really wouldn't matter too much how "realistic" it is beyond a certain point, since that's not what makes a good movie, TV show or pla...

I'll take a stab at this one: To start with, since Loroi children grow and mature at about twice the rate of human children, they simply don't have the time for an education as extensive as that of humans. They are entering active military service about the same time that a human child is entering 6...

The YouTube algorithm kept suggesting Mongolian folk music to me a few months back, and I've been listening ever since.. This must be why o_O. And I'm now a HU fan as well.

(1) I believe most Loroi have a very pragmatic view of death. Most do not believe in any kind of afterlife or reincarnation. If I had to guess, I think Beryl's thoughts on the subject on page 170 would probably be the most widely adopted view by Loroi: When you die, you simply cease to exist. And wh...

Back on topic, I wonder how viable the "Space Yeeter" would be for launching spaceship components and raw materials into orbit. Spin launch is viable for lighter payloads but not super heavy ones. Still requires second staging but requires much less than normal allowing for a greater payload fracti...

Back on topic, I wonder how viable the "Space Yeeter" would be for launching spaceship components and raw materials into orbit.

Type A Fuel: I know it is as powerful as AM but easier to handle (does not react with all kinds of matter by blowing up) but what state of matter is it stored as? Solid? Liquid? Gas? Plasma? I presume liquid, only because it is the most dense below solids to condense fuel. Is it stored as as chemic...