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- Thu Dec 02, 2021 10:27 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
- Replies: 128
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Re: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
Why recoil should be greater for material projectile if it have same energy?.. I can understand why plasma can have no recoil- its main damage factors is heat and whatever electromagnetic capsule is used to carry plasma intact to target, weight of the projectile and its speed can be neglegible. 7,9...
- Thu Dec 02, 2021 8:16 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22681
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
Not quite yet. Racism requires one other element, which I neglected to mention earlier. You forgot, but I wrote about it a page or two ago. I clarify that in the modern interpretation, racism is precisely the offensive or humiliating relationship between people on the basis of race. In itself, uneq...
- Thu Dec 02, 2021 7:56 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 213981
Re: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
All this sounds clever, but, firstly, the main characteristic of recoil is the impulse, which for any number of particles will be incomparably lower than that of a bullet, even without for the impulse from the detonation of a propellant charge or plasma during rail acceleration of a projectile. An ...
- Thu Dec 02, 2021 10:31 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 213981
Re: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
The energy of the shot, the penetrating ability, the high-explosive and blasting effects are not the same thing.
The adjustment probably concerns not so much the POWER of the shot as its FOCUS. In the end, we are dealing with energy weapons.
The adjustment probably concerns not so much the POWER of the shot as its FOCUS. In the end, we are dealing with energy weapons.
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:53 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 213981
Re: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
Considering they can't fit dampers on the smallest shuttles, they're probably not that tiny right now. And certainly not so cheap that they would be put on every hand weapon.
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:50 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22681
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
Any alien species that has built a starship has demonstrated the capability to discern the world around them to a degree sufficient enough for racism. If they can differentiate between the raw materials needed to manufacture flight electronics, they can keep apart the various sub-groups of man. If ...
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:34 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 213981
Re: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
About recoil - the beam weapon will have it. But weak. Plasma - stronger. But all the same, it is orders of magnitude weaker than that of a kinetics with a comparable shot energy. Because the mass of particles and the degree of physical interaction work with very different quantities than the system...
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:53 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Scifi Accuracy Versus Showing How Scifi Tech Affects Your World
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8590
Re: Scifi Accuracy Versus Showing How Scifi Tech Affects Your World
Bamax, you are some kind of post-spam machine...
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:51 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 213981
Re: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
He is a pink alien man. Romantic - maybe, but heroic ?! <noise of loroi chauvinism>
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:41 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22681
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
Which, by the way, is very funny. Many people who write or think science fiction are inclined to introduce one or another kind of batrization - they say, cut off aggression, throw xenophobia to hell, and generally reduce the negative emotional spectrum, and add rationality over emotions, we will hav...
- Tue Nov 30, 2021 11:27 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22681
- Tue Nov 30, 2021 10:40 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22681
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
In my opinion, the discussion is clearly at an impasse. Werra insists that regardless of conditions, baseline and current, aliens will be familiar with the concept of racism and will apply it to humans. The other side, represented mainly by Cthulhu and me , appeals to the fact that the aliens, to be...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:36 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Alien Super Weapons
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2384
Re: Alien Super Weapons
@Demarquis I do not quite understand the essence of your question\statement, but this is only a listing of facts: 1) Contact with species with different biochemistry: Neridi and Barsam - Soia-group, as well as Loroi, Nissek, Arekka, Mannadi, Delrias, Golim, Pipolsid - conditional "Terrestrial" group...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:22 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6283
- Views: 5102332
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Well, we can use nuclear-pumped disposable lasers in warheads. Given the power of the impulse from the detonation of antimatter, the impulse of such a laser will potentially be able to burn through even ship armor at a considerable distance, not to mention much more lightly armored missiles.
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:31 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: Writing Prompts
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 470105
Re: Writing Prompts
I am slowly working on this, but there are always a bunch of problems that distract attention in different directions, and all this hysteria with the epidemic does not make the situation any easier.
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:47 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: Writing Prompts
- Replies: 1194
- Views: 470105
Re: Writing Prompts
In general, I have been slowly writing a story somewhere since 2016 (in fact, I just merged Jim's universe with my idea, which I have been working on since about 12th year, the concept seemed interesting to me) but since I know English at the level of "fix the most obvious translator mistakes" there...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:38 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Alien Super Weapons
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2384
Re: Alien Super Weapons
It is doubtful that a species that has gone into space, has come into contact with various species, both having compatible biochemistry, and not, and has reached the level of development of medicine, which allows the regeneration of entire organ systems in a short time directly on the patient: a) do...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 5:13 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6283
- Views: 5102332
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
The shuttle was discovered because the umiak knew its trajectory and speed when it disappeared from radar. Having this data, it is absolutely trivial task to reduce the search area to reasonable values. Any movement in space is a completely different matter. First, the exit from the hyperjump in Jim...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 4:55 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22681
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
Perhaps, I write through a translator, so it's hard for me to judge. In fact, no, I am quite tolerant of this one, because from the point of view of my experience, this is an inevitable evil for at least the next two hundred years. I am much more offended by the wrong terminology, since certain term...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 4:34 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6283
- Views: 5102332
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Again, the problem is that the ship's hull is not the primary detection tool in space. The main detection factor is the huge and very bright torch of the engines, which is easy to spot from the other end of the system and the signature of which is much more difficult to fake than to imitate the sign...