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Loroi aren't the best archivists as I already mentioned. Matveyev's computers would have done so if the data didn't have plenty of unknown words (archaic Trade words), the doctor doesn't know this but the code monkeys will realize this almost immediately and ask the Loroi for a lexicon. In contrast...

An enjoyable update. But, I have to ask, dragoongfa, is the "unseemly" medic sketchy-looking or is there actually an unattractive Loroi in your story? :P I'm not sure if it was in the fora or the Insider, but Loroi warriors need to use speech for battlefield communication, e.g., ship-to-ship. Trying...

Careful Beryl, you may replace Fireblade as my favorite out of the holy trinity of FBT. Heresy. Tempo is clearly first among equals. :P You speak truth. :lol: All joking aside, why do I have the distinct feeling the this transfer is very 'hush hush' and that Stillstorm hasn't authorized it? I mean ...

Another enjoyable entry and an interesting theory on humanity's Lotai. I look forward to more and I can't help but be more curious about what make humans unreadable.

The technology of this story has been intriguing me for many years. In the limited number of pages Alex can bring one thing to the Loroi that the limited number of pages shown. The knowledge of sarcasm. Words lie, is the Loroi way. Alex can sit next to one of their ambassadors and determine which i...

This popped up over in dragoongfa's story thread and a search of the forum didn't turn up anything. What exactly are the glowing blue panels we see on Loroi ships? Suggestions I've seen over there include heat dissipation panels; sensors; windows; or fake, painted-on windows. The first two suggestio...

I have to say, I am enjoying your story, dragoongfa. I'm really looking forward to reading more. :) But, something else you said made me think: I don't know if people have done this discussion before but everything I have listed above, especially the bridge are signs of a culture that doesn't take t...

Arioch wrote:

Twinkee wrote:

Please do not tumble dry

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Sounds like good advice to me.

Turning a shirt inside out is indeed a good way to protect any printed logos. Sage advice, that.

*SQUEEEEEEEEEEE*

*Ahem*

Sorry for the pierced eardrums, folks. Couldn't really help myself.

I'm with Carl and Sun, Tempo all the way.

Orson Scott Card did describe an internet in Ender's Game (1985), in which Ender's brother and sister plant the seeds for world domination under the psuedonyms Demosthenes and Locke. Though is seemed less visual than our actual Web turned out to be. And though the Web didn't exist in 1985, there we...

Since Kenobi makes a point of saying that Imperial troops are known for being precise, I think one has to assume that they're constantly missing the heroes because it's Hollywood, and not because they're supposed to be incompetent. The stormtroopers boarding the Tantive IV didn't seem to have any t...

many cloned storm troopers were not clones of jango anymore, they were cloned from many other templates, though some of the jango clones did remain. But most stormtroopers were recruits from the populace later in the war. Interestingly enough many of the jango clones considered the rest of the corp...

Heh... I found the image on NASA's APOD website . The television did look a bit awkward. You know, it really does look pretty awkward, hanging up there all off center... -snip- -snip- Mark Twain predicted dial-up Internet in 1898. I wasn't aware until you mentioned that (thanks for sharing, by the ...

In reference to the earlier discussion on the problematic nature of predicting the future of computer technology, here's a look at the home computer of 2004 (as predicted in 1954): http://www.radford.edu/wkovarik/class/images/FutureComputer.jpg What I want to know is what that gigantic handwheel is...

Not once in our collective lives have I or anyone with whom I have ever conversed used, or heard someone use, the term "memory" to refer to hard drive space. :roll: Equally, I have never in my life heard someone refer to RAM as 'memory'. This may be a cultural thing then. Interesting; it could very...

I think of it like this: It's not that the Loroi can't rapidly advance, it's just that humanity in Outsider (as with actual humanity) has built a set of systems that favor rapid scientific and technological development. That's a pretty good way of putting it. We tend to view technological progressi...

@JQBogus Perhaps, but technological generations are even more vaguely defined than human generations. It seemed more logical that living generations were what was meant. Not a problem. :) I don't think such a direct comparison between human and Loroi tech advancement can be made. It's not that the L...

Loroi orbit 1st artificial satellite : 475 CE Loroi develop jump drive : 850 CE Time elapsed : 375 years. Humans orbit 1st artificial satellite : 1957 CE Humans develop jump drive : Sometime between 2050 and 2107. Time elapsed : 93 years, at least, 150 years, at most. Assuming (a big assumption) th...

@Cy83r No, he hasn't misconstrued the mathematical concept of time. Space and time are intrinsically linked; affect one, and you will affect the other. The constant in that relationship is indeed c . The speed of light is independent of any reference frame. All observers will measure it to be the sa...