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The problems are the "living standards". You are living better and using more resources than movie star of the age of black and white. The luxuries are becoming norm and then necessities, but we don't need everything we have to live or even to be happy. Fix this and everything else would be "easy"....

In defense of the show, it's a damn sight better than the prequels, in spite of Jar Jar. However, it's likely for the best that he's appeared in only a few episodes. Seriously. Screw that guy... The show isn't that bad, true ... except the show version of Jar Jar is this terrible caricature of the ...

That is something that is amusing about restrictions on automatic weapons. For targeted attacks they are actually really poor. It's true that in the case of indiscriminate mowing-down-a-crowd attacks they would be great, however in situations like the North Hollywood Shootout there probably would h...

I see everybody else has forgotten the horror that was Jar Jar Binks.... ...and you bring it up again. "thx". :evil: ;) Well, let's be fair - for as much as Jar Jar Binks is ... iconic of everything that was wrong about the prequels, if he were the only/primary issue, he would have been forgivable....

No doubt.

You see the problem. The reason for having pooled damage was to try to simplify the process of damage resolution, to facilitate combat between larger numbers of ships such as in Starfire, but it doesn't work with the Outsider defensive screens model. Starfire and Star Fleet Battles have Star Trek s...

fredgiblet wrote:Also they make baseball bats in aluminum.

And titanium!

All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.

Over, and over, and over, and over... Sorry, javcs.

.....::Sigh:: Very well. I liked the Original Trilogy, the Prequel Trilogy was also enjoyable from an aesthetic point of view, the story line needed work. I like KotOR, but since my discs are scratched to hell I can't finish it, haven't played the 2nd one yet. Not seen the christmas special, nor ha...

I was actually adamantly not excited for Halo 4 until I watched Forward Unto Dawn. It wasn't a real masterpiece, but it was cool, tied in to the books, and gave me the shakes with that music and some of the dialogue. But I'll admit I'm pretty easy when it comes to stuff like that. Despite not being...

@daelyte I would agree with armor penetration. Shielded or not, you'll have to pierce the hull to take the ship out. And since particle beams have mass, they would be a better than laser at doing so. I would also agree with the size of such a weapon. A realistic particle beam weapon would like be on...

Karst - Might you have been talking about this http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/gold ... -0504.html?

This could be useful for 'space brooms' without much (if any) improvement (if you're going to burn it in the atmosphere anyways, do you really care whether you damage it ;) ). I didn't even know "space brooms" were a thing. Neat idea, though I don't know if a Bessel beam would have the same range a...

@daelyte: I don't know if you were replying to me, but you speak truth. I ran with "homeworld style ion cannon." Since those are fictional, manticore7 could make them in any size; whatever was needed to fit the ship. @manticore7: If you want realistic ion (or other particle) weaponry, the link daely...

I was thinking maybe going with a homeworld style Ion cannon as a main weapon instead, I figure an Ion Cannon does not need as much room as a mas driver (need space for crews to sleep). Maybe? They are a completely fictional weapon, so you could make them any size you wanted... If you want space fo...

fredgiblet wrote:OBD = On-Board Diagnostics?

Yes.

I could see a place for nano tech , though. You know, nano-engineered medicines that allow for more efficient delivery, or perhaps tracers that could help a doctor better identify the extent of an injury when the patient finally arrives. Nanobots serving as "OBD" in humans? Cool idea! "OBD" for hum...

As with the bullets vs. lasers debate, a new technology has to be more than just higher tech; it has to do the job better/cheaper/faster. The goal of first aid isn't to repair the damage, but rather to keep the patient alive until he can be delivered into proper full medical care. Conventional band...

Did he mean "no nanites," flat out? Or did he mean no self-replicating nanomachines? Because we're on the verge of having working nanomachines now, they just won't have the ability to build more of themselves. So, it's possible to have nanotech without the gray goo scenario. we already have nanotec...

Day and night are pretty basic storytelling tools, so to have a system where both are variable really puts a lot of work on the author -- not just to work out the physics, but also a significant amount of expositional effort to explain what's going on to the reader. Until you've tried, you don't re...