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by lostnomad
Thu May 22, 2014 4:03 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Replies: 6274
Views: 4363976

Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread

When you say she marched on her former home do you mean the city state or clan compound because it seems just a wee bit jerkish to massacre everyone for something your sisters did to you.

Also yay for possibly discovering psi amps.
by lostnomad
Fri May 16, 2014 6:28 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Zumwalt: Stealth and Armor in Modern Naval Combat
Replies: 130
Views: 66346

Re: Zumwalt: Stealth and Armor in Modern Naval Combat

Old memory of a documentary about the Gulf War soliders started surrendering to the drones because they heard loud buzzing sounds like a lawnmower before getting hit.

I think any ship with a hangar carries a few drones now a days.
by lostnomad
Thu May 15, 2014 1:02 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Zumwalt: Stealth and Armor in Modern Naval Combat
Replies: 130
Views: 66346

Re: Zumwalt: Stealth and Armor in Modern Naval Combat

Treaty wasn't the only thing restraining the Iowa. As it stand the Iowa class could barely pass through the Panama Canal. Of course you could increase tonnage by making it longer but that has its own issues. Of course you could just make it into a cargo ship... that would be interesting :|
by lostnomad
Tue May 13, 2014 3:10 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Zumwalt: Stealth and Armor in Modern Naval Combat
Replies: 130
Views: 66346

Re: Zumwalt: Stealth and Armor in Modern Naval Combat

Both Russia and China have missiles capable of sinking a ship at 3000Km. Was the most recent modern naval battle in the Falklands War? The Zumwalt is more comparable to the South Dakota than the Iowa. Yet the South Dakota is still bigger and slower the Zumwalt at 27 knots.From what I have read, it i...
by lostnomad
Sun May 04, 2014 7:08 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Miscellaneous Terran question-and-answer thread
Replies: 1204
Views: 1061860

Re: Miscellaneous Terran question-and-answer thread

Ha ha no I have been around through 6 computer crashes and hard ware changes, a forum migration, blocked by bot protection, and completely forgetting my previous account info in the 10 or 11 years I have been around here. Stealth in open space doesn't happen. All the tech I have seen only covers one...
by lostnomad
Sun May 04, 2014 3:14 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Miscellaneous Terran question-and-answer thread
Replies: 1204
Views: 1061860

Re: Miscellaneous Terran question-and-answer thread

In a previous thread Arioch you mentioned Today, a high-quality digital camera is a component that costs something like $20, and that can easily fit on a smartphone. I doubt that having hundreds or thousands of such devices on the hull of a starship would present a problem. Has humanity not consider...