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- Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:04 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Concept Fanart of Future Terran Ship Designs
- Replies: 746
- Views: 460408
Re: Concept Fanart of Future Terran Ship Designs
An actual observation deck would be an extension of the hull, possibly outside of the armor, but would still be part of the main hull.
- Fri Dec 02, 2011 3:58 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Concept Fanart of Future Terran Ship Designs
- Replies: 746
- Views: 460408
Re: Concept Fanart of Future Terran Ship Designs
The only critique that I have is that those two big boxes probably don't belong on the battleship's fin. They'll cause torque on the fin (thereby weakening it), will increase infrastructure challenges (you'll have to run more utility stuff to the end of the fin), and aren't likely to be useful (the ...
- Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:35 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: psychological warefare on the Umiak.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26711
Re: psychological warefare on the Umiak.
Not all is woe, I recently got reminded of OTEC . I don't know it's scaling quirks, but the combination of energy production, freshwater production and increased surface fertility (a.k.a. improved aquaculture productivity) is a nice combination. At any rate, the agricultural techniques here in the U...
- Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:25 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 44473
Re: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
Probably not, more likely budget sabotage. The space program is supposedly really popular here in America, but you wouldn't guess that by the money that gets spent on it.
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:33 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 93
- Replies: 148
- Views: 76638
Re: Page 93
Not entirely true, habitable worlds are mostly useful because you don't have to use as much environmental support gear (in some cases aliens might be okay with just allergy-drugs, or something equivalent), which shouldn't be that big of an issue with sufficient telepresence and robotics resources (y...
- Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:14 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: psychological warefare on the Umiak.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26711
Re: psychological warefare on the Umiak.
Yes, but we've been becoming more capitalist (specifically, less regulated). In some ways good, in other ways bad (for the bad: the deregulation of the wheat markets has gone too far, as demonstrated by the fact that speculators can as a group now dominate the markets, leading to artificial scarcity...
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:24 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 44473
Re: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
So it's still weird? Got it.
- Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:02 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 44473
Re: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
Alright, someone remind me: how many years did CERN go over the results before releasing their paper? My thoughts on http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2685 : Relevant : Does the movement of sender/receiver due to Earth's motion make this point relevant even regardless of any satellite involvement? (a.k.a. d...
- Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:48 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider movie (parody project)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12440
Re: Outsider movie (parody project)
And why "commies"? Because obviously everywhere east of the USA is communist ;) . What do you mean 'it loops around'? But what would be "our" version of Outsider? I suggest that Hamilton needs big respectable moustaches. http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3DHhOdS9j4jdvqKdXnjVhlLWHFi5MLo3QmXE...
- Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:40 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider movie (parody project)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12440
Re: Outsider movie (parody project)
Trantor, you forgot to write 'Commies' on Yurop. Also, where's our Go-Away cannons? We might get infected with foreigners otherwise.
- Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:28 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Ship Design
- Replies: 103
- Views: 61780
Re: Loroi Ship Design
Yes, I assume that the Bolo AIs were designed in such a way that only such a direct connection would be enough to provide an 'end-run' processing path around such restrictions. I'd question the precise level of 'in-the-loop', but it's implied that the human personality somewhat merges into the Bolo ...
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:39 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Ship Design
- Replies: 103
- Views: 61780
Re: Loroi Ship Design
...You also have the ethical questions of whether you should be putting an intelligent, self aware entity in harm's way unnecessarily. As opposed to an intelligent, self aware human? (This is actually brought up in a few Bolo stories; later on in the timeline having a human commander in the bolo is...
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:55 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Ship Design
- Replies: 103
- Views: 61780
Re: Loroi Ship Design
We aren't quicker than 'any machine', we aren't as obsessively devoted to the details of the orders, we aren't as gee-tolerant, and we do a lot of things that are unnecessary for the role (like breath). Humans will be the captains and commanders, we'll be in the capital ships, the 'combat boats', an...
- Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:03 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Dream machine
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8678
Re: Dream machine
Anything that reminds someone of a Christoper Walken movie is probably a little dubious.
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:36 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Dream machine
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8678
Re: Dream machine
Maybe, but a lot of information in the brain won't be visual, so you won't find a true 'dream recorder'.
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:33 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 44473
Re: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
Not entirely accurate (Rome did actually have watermills, which they used for a variety of things; slave labor seems to have undercut any chance of a true Roman Industrial Revolution, though), but close enough.Mjolnir wrote:The Industrial Revolution did not happen in Roman times,
- Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:44 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 44473
Re: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
2) We learn a little bit about time. Conventional thinking says that going FTL == going back in time, but these results don't say that, suggesting that perhaps 'negative time' manifests in other ways (Mjolnir, do you know if neutrino conversions are 1-way?). This doesn't say much about how FTL woul...
- Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:00 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 44473
Re: CERN claims FTL neutrinos
I can see a couple ways this could go: 1) CERN goofed. Easiest solution. 2) We learn a little bit about time. Conventional thinking says that going FTL == going back in time, but these results don't say that, suggesting that perhaps 'negative time' manifests in other ways (Mjolnir, do you know if ne...