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A small arms blaster would be designed to be fired in atmosphere, so I don't see that being a problem. Oxygen accelerates combustion but it doesn't itself burn. The most obvious danger in using higher power settings on a blaster is the risk of missing your intended target and having the shot go thr...

A small arms blaster would be designed to be fired in atmosphere, so I don't see that being a problem. Oxygen accelerates combustion but it doesn't itself burn. The most obvious danger in using higher power settings on a blaster is the risk of missing your intended target and having the shot go thro...

"The added wrinkle is that telepathy offers unique ways to intimidate and coerce others in ways that may be undetectable to third parties." Even when the third parties themselves are telepathic? I would think that this opportunity gives the adults an unparalleled level of discipline and control. Te...

Well, I am aware of research that indicates that when we decide to move our arm, the signal to do so originates outside of the pre-frontal cortex (where conscious thought takes place). The motor signal actually arrives at the arm a fraction of a second *before* we consciously think the decision to ...

Well, I am aware of research that indicates that when we decide to move our arm, the signal to do so originates outside of the pre-frontal cortex (where conscious thought takes place). The motor signal actually arrives at the arm a fraction of a second *before* we consciously think the decision to ...

In the Loroi tradition, customizations to uniform or vehicles are considered to represent a sort of medal or citation, and so can only be done with permission. Since they are a symbol of prestige, such markings tend not to be comical or frivolous. Examples in the comic are the crescent moon insignia...

The Loroi seem to have a history of endless bloodshed and struggled to establish rules and laws meant to keep their people in check. How often do Loroi youth get into interpersonal fights? Do adults allow the youth to 'vent' their aggressions and frustrations? At what point do adults intervene to b...

Instructions are technically symbols in the linguistic sense. Usually its kindof opaque to a human since it tends to unroll into an excessively long sequence compared to the 'code' but its not a total abortion of a translation from one to the other, you can comprehend machine code. Its kindof limit...

Even computer programming has it's own language, without it you cannot program anything Computer code isn't the best example, since it consists of instructions to a computer rather than what linguists would call a language for communicating information. The machine code that's executed on a compute...

Telepathy is non-verbal; it doesn't use words. There is no relationship between Trade and telepathy. Telepathy is not just "mental speaking." If that were the case, then telepathy would be useless for reading the thoughts of aliens who don't speak Trade. Loroi babies do start to learn telepathy in t...

The ability to recover from human-factors related disruptions to something that may have been getting set up for multiple seasons is an underappreciated aspect of television (in this case I agree they did not recover particularly well). On the contrary, I think it's one of the most obvious problems...

For a series that's designed to go on indefinitely, that can be done in theory, with story arcs that each play out with a beginning, middle and end. In practice in the world of television, this almost never works, with shifting teams of writers, producers and actors. One of the greatest strengths of...

Hello Arioch, just wanted to ask if you will update the official site with newer pages, if so, when? It's been an awfully long time for most of us here. Yes, of course I'll post new pages. It should have been weeks ago, and would have been this Monday, but a client had an emergency request this wee...

Although I suppose people love DVD extras, I usually take it as a bad sign when I see that a movie had multiple endings. A good story usually has a very specific beginning, middle, and end. There are a variety of ways to get there, but it seems to me that if you don't know what the ending of your st...

I generally don't comment on what individual characters are privately thinking or experiencing.

What about “touch grass!”? :mrgreen: Common grass-like organisms would be liio and misesa , though they are not cultivated in lawns like Earth grass. "To touch" is dollida . Though saying "Misesa dollidaro!" would probably result in a quizzical look from the listener. Unrelatedly, what about “power...

Do the support caste warriors have lower status than the combat castes? I know that they cannot normally hold command positions, are they viewed as "lesser warriors" because of this, or are they just seen as not having the skill set needed to command? How much of a say do the high ranking support c...

Even on newer ships afaik the chief engineer (when the ship is big enough to have one) is usually with the machinery. Actually especially so for USN, the LCS kindof suck. (we will see how constellation finally works out) As I understand it from my research, on civilian ships at least, the deck and ...

Why are the subsystems and medical heads on the Tempest Soroin instead of Gallen and Doranzer? Are there not enough specialists with the necessary experience due to the war, or are those positions usually held by Soroin for some reason? Gallen are mechanics and technicians; Doranzer are medics and ...