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Bit late, but here goes. hi hi A thought that occurs to me is that Loroi FTL comms don't work by a Farseer sending a message, but instead by a Farseer receiving a message from a properly trained Mizol , because they are capable of targeting a recipient more accurately than most Loroi. That would be ...

Well, no spoilers, but that was a good movie. I'm much more satisfied with Howard than Abrams or Johnson. And unlike some movies, there were actual consequences inside it.

hi hi Sooo... Is it still too late to divert to one of the uninhabited planets and try to hide in a rock crevice or something? I had an inkling... way back on page 105... that the Highland 7 might end up crash-landing somewhere and that Alex would be spending far more time with his fellow passenger...

I joined the old forum in either the prologue or chapter 1, but I don't remember which and it probably can't be checked on anymore. As for this version, Sep 2011.

Now, you could argue that a white dwarf isn't dense enough to significantly affect the slope of the gravity well, and I haven't done the math to contradict you, but in principle a denser object has a steeper gravity well. I've done a quick investigation, and I feel it is safe to say that they do. W...

Larger populations put pressure on food supplies, but improved agricultural technology stays ahead. There is a limit, but I think there is a lot of room to improve; direct genetic manipulations are producing gains that will make the Green Revolution seem trivial by comparison. There will be the sam...

Starship Troopers - either the scenarist was a moron, or humans throw that asteroid themselves in a false flag operation (conspiracy!). The movie director hated the book, so he intentionally did a bad job with the movie. So, false flag it is. hi hi ...And keep in mind, this is a "lot" of power. Eve...

By the way, wonder what is Tempo up to while all of this is going on next door? Blissfully asleep or listening to everything telepathically? The way and tempo (pun intended) in which the situation is developing should be of interest to her... A thought that occurs to me is that Loroi FTL comms don'...

(someone may have already said this) Am I the only one who can't help but hear Talon's and Spiral's voices with stereotypical "eastern European" accents? I know that's a bit USA-centric of me, but I can't help it! :) CJSF Luge is probably right, but I half-recall Arioch saying that all Loroi sound ...

The name became a tilte. Just like Caesar became a title after Gaius Julius Caesar.... Just for reference, Caesar was a title before Julius, just not one implying Imperatorship (which didn't properly get invented until Augustus anyways, Julius was playing at being a King, or "Rex"). One of his ance...

I'd say that rather than a fighting bridge, that window would likely be a pilot house + "wing bridge": intended for use in port operations, and as an observation platform for visual inspections of the hull.

Memory and intelligence aren't really the same thing. Memory is what you can remember, whereas intelligence is how well you can use what you remember. Relevant to each other, but not the same thing.

This is a bit late, but looks like it's a ceramic instead of an actual metal. Like sapphire, I guess. I get the impression that it's a lot less brittle though.

To all those confused by why fascism is being described as a form of socialism, I feel an explanation is due. Here are some definitions: Firstly, socialism: socialism is the utilization of the fruits of productivity to society as a group. The use of taxes to better society can be considered a form o...

The concept of Humanity in the Union is filled with corner-cases where the human lack of telepathy becomes in some way a highly specialized boon to the telepaths themselves.

I'm not sure we have the same definition of "opposition." Even in democratic systems, the minority "opposition" party is not allowed to disregard or disobey the laws or rulings of the majority government. Democracy doesn't mean everyone gets to do anything they want. In most democratic systems, the...

Yeah, that's the sort of thinking that leads to "we need to get them before they slaughter us", when the only thing they plan to slaughter is the lions that keep eating them.

Here's my current thought: the Umiak have been bringing lightly-staffed semi-drone fleets to Naam for years. The uncrewed ships follow a simple heuristic of "drift predictably-investigate anomalies-destroy/evade intruders-allow friendlies to dock". They aren't fully functional, but they have enough ...

That water is wet? And now I'm picturing a conspiracy theorist shouting that it's a lie... But yes, only the things that are unassailably true via physical law will be unanimously agreed on. [...] Earth is flat? Pretty sure that all physical laws so far have proven that Earth is NOT flat, except ma...

It could also be used to claim that Humanity is a variably-fractious species that goes through cycles of homogenization and heterogenization. I wonder if there is anything Humanity may unanimously agree about. That water is wet? And now I'm picturing a conspiracy theorist shouting that it's a lie.....