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Mar 10, 2014 23:23
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angry_keebler posted:there is absolutely no hiding in space unless you've got a moon or planet between you and your adversary accelerating loads of asteroids at a planet from far away like in starship troopers is the best cause even if theres advance warning its still gonna be a pain in the rear end to round them all up
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Mar 10, 2014 23:24
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:vent your heat into miniature black holes they did this w/ stargate but it was another universe instead of a black hole and like hosed up poo poo that totally boned the other universe instead of heat. and then later in stargate dave nelson from newsradio stole the tech and tried to use it to solve global warming but it hosed up and was gonna destroy the planet, but then bill nye saved the day.
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Mar 10, 2014 23:26
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sounds like thyey should have used a black hole instead
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Mar 10, 2014 23:28
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I don't think they had the tech to make small black holes but they sure as poo poo knew how to penetrate other universes
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Mar 10, 2014 23:28
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in that case i'd find a universe in the final stages of heat death and pump my heat in there to save their universe
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Mar 10, 2014 23:29
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i'm so good at solving problems when there are no technical or practical limitations involved
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Mar 10, 2014 23:31
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the larger the radiator, the farther away it can be seen even if its average temperature is relatively lower of course in my earlier numbers i'm assuming modern infrared astronomy is the peak of our advancement and we never have more than one ir telscope and no radar astronomy because i guess radars are illegal in the future thanks cyber obama presumably by the time we're spending a trillion dollars a pop on laser battleships we'll pop 20 or 30 telscopes up in the sky for a daily refresh of objects that might try to kamikaze our space investments
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Mar 10, 2014 23:32
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angry_keebler posted:presumably by the time we're spending a trillion dollars a pop on laser battleships we'll pop 20 or 30 telscopes up in the sky for a daily refresh of objects that might try to kamikaze our space investments you're remarkably optimistic about the development of the human race
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Mar 10, 2014 23:34
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angry_keebler posted:the larger the radiator, the farther away it can be seen even if its average temperature is relatively lower put a big heat shield up on the front of your spaceship, radiators all hanging out behind it and such
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Mar 10, 2014 23:35
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vent you're exhaust into yospos where it will go unnoticed
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Mar 10, 2014 23:35
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:you're remarkably optimistic about the development of the human race nah the trillion dollar battleships will be used to kill space muslims
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Mar 10, 2014 23:36
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Shaggar posted:accelerating loads of asteroids at a planet from far away like in starship troopers is the best cause even if theres advance warning its still gonna be a pain in the rear end to round them all up not a bad idea if you think the war will last longer than it takes for the asteroids to reach the target or you keep real good records so you can help stop them after a truce is signed maybe hollow out the cores of your weaons and fill them with a stable explosive that you can signal for self destruct when the war is over
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Mar 10, 2014 23:39
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:in that case i'd find a universe in the final stages of heat death and pump my heat in there to save their universe uuuuuuhhhhhhh no its heat death because its so hot IDIOT
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Mar 10, 2014 23:54
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:you're remarkably optimistic about the development of the human race personally i think the last big collapse will happen sometime c.2045 and then that's about all she wrote for progressive technological society but if we somehow make it through collapse of the global food supply and the subsequent failures of the mega cities and go on to build interplanetary warships they'll obey the laws of physics so they'll be prohibitively expensive and cramped and uncomfortable but also have lots of cool lasers and particle beam weapons
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Mar 10, 2014 23:55
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there are two ways to win at space wars: 1. be peaceful, and rely on the assumption that everyone else will be peaceful always and forever 2. annihilate enemy civilizations before they get good enough at doing things in space to be a threat what i'm saying is maybe there's a reason earth gets an extinction level asteroid strike with such regularity and maybe there's a really good reason that we've been really stubbornly dragging our heels re: any propulsion technology more advanced than puttering around with little dinky chemical rockets 
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Mar 11, 2014 00:12
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Shaggar posted:they did this w/ stargate but it was another universe instead of a black hole and like hosed up poo poo that totally boned the other universe instead of heat. this is similar to the plot of asimovs the gods themselves where earth and a parallel universe exchange isotopes that are impossible in the other universe due to differences in physical laws and use the nuclear decay as an energy source.
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Mar 11, 2014 00:25
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ol qwerty bastard posted:and maybe there's a really good reason that we've been really stubbornly dragging our heels re: any propulsion technology more advanced than puttering around with little dinky chemical rockets the sort of people that run for senate aren't the sort of people that think we should invest in basic research and think that applied science should be broken into multi state military development boondoggles so they can get votes for bringing in job programs that will last for decades
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Mar 11, 2014 00:37
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angry_keebler posted:there is absolutely no hiding in space unless you've got a moon or planet between you and your adversary then how did the bugs bomb us smart guy
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Mar 11, 2014 00:43
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would it be possible to make an engine that runs on senators?
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Mar 11, 2014 00:44
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Busta Chimes.wav posted:this is similar to the plot of asimovs the gods themselves where earth and a parallel universe exchange isotopes that are impossible in the other universe due to differences in physical laws and use the nuclear decay as an energy source. Asimov is really the best
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Mar 11, 2014 01:00
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:would it be possible to make an engine that runs on senators? rocket efficiency is a function of propellant mass and velocity, so i think some sort of railgun launching elected representatives would work p dece
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Mar 11, 2014 02:14
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the ending to Words of Radiance was such a let-down even though the rest of it was p enjoyable hey you know how the book was about 2 people (well three counting that thief girl) struggling to come to terms with their powers etc. well gently caress it let's just give them to half the cast now!
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Mar 11, 2014 02:22
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:would it be possible to make an engine that runs on senators? its called a hot air balloon
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Mar 11, 2014 02:24
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drinking scotch and reading Use of Weapons, whaddup
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Mar 11, 2014 02:27
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:drinking scotch and reading Use of Weapons, whaddup who is she?? How does he know her?
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Mar 11, 2014 02:34
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:would it be possible to make an engine that runs on senators? sure call it Senator Propulsion by Magnetic Field Induction you're looking at a bucket load propellant coilgun so you'd get 100 pulses of thrust, each pulse would be around 1100kN unfortunately each pulse would be fatal to the payload as each senator would be exposed to 1200G acceleration force. however, each senator would make an effective kinetic weapon, so you would have that going for you. also since the payload won't survive the launch you can make the gun relatively short (~1200m) and there's no real need to keep the engine pressurized and you can power it with a nearly unshielded fission power plant. the weight of the coils and coolant track would preclude a high TWR, you're probaly in the neighborhood of 260 tons dry mass and 10 tons of senators. each pulse would give you a momentary acceleration ~0.4G, so you'd probably need to ferry up the rest of the congress and most of their aides if you plan on getting anywhere
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Mar 11, 2014 02:40
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welp; idk how they're going to follow season 1 of True Detective, that last episode was some intense and creepy poo poo.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:49
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NoneMoreNegative posted:welp; idk how they're going to follow season 1 of True Detective, that last episode was some intense and creepy poo poo. really good series. i don't even whoever has to follow rust and marty
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Mar 11, 2014 03:02
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:would it be possible to make an engine that runs on senators? only one way to find out. lets just start stuffing a bunch of them into fuel tanks
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Mar 11, 2014 03:26
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NoneMoreNegative posted:welp; idk how they're going to follow season 1 of True Detective, that last episode was some intense and creepy poo poo. the location was fantastic
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Mar 11, 2014 03:36
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NoneMoreNegative posted:welp; idk how they're going to follow season 1 of True Detective, that last episode was some intense and creepy poo poo. it's an anthology series so they'll have new characters somewhere else. not sure if it will have the same cast they ended the series really well, i liked that they left it ambiguous whether there was actual ~2spoopy~ poo poo going on or wether it was just ur typical, mundane crazy hick pedo-murder-rape cult
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Mar 11, 2014 04:29
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boort cloud
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Mar 11, 2014 04:35
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yo true detective is absolutely fuckin amazing does this have some thomas ligotti influence? because it's some anxiety poo poo and really casually nihilistic
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Mar 11, 2014 06:43
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i'm two episodes into true detective and i'm really not feeling it plot light character driven stuff isn't all that interesting when the only characters are flat tough guys. i'll keep going and see if it gets better
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Mar 11, 2014 06:47
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Amethyst posted:i'm two episodes into true detective and i'm really not feeling it they're not all that tough really, and it's cool seeing the tough guys react rather than some faux autistic super detective
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Mar 11, 2014 06:50
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it may just be that i'm watching it right after the wire, which has a giant diverse cast of fully developed characters, to true detective, which has two
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Mar 11, 2014 06:52
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Amethyst posted:it may just be that i'm watching it right after the wire, which has a giant diverse cast of fully developed characters, to true detective, which has two and they're both huge hosed up pieces of poo poo
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Mar 11, 2014 07:01
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true detective kinda reminds me of the movie natural born killers, which is why they got woody harrelson I guess
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Mar 11, 2014 07:17
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Elder Postsman posted:put a big heat shield up on the front of your spaceship, radiators all hanging out behind it and such this is an engineering problem that could in principle be solved and would work to shield a non-accelerating spacecraft from ir detection by a point observer the problem is you would need a real big real no joke heat shield that would need a lot of coolant and a lot of tailing radiators, something like a 60 km wide plate with 20 km of radiators dangling out the back as long as you're enemy only has a single observatory you can get pretty close, but if they use radar you'd need a stealth geometry and a material that retains radar absorbtive properties at super low temperatures. even if such a material even exists they could still just look at the sky with a regular telescope and watch for glint from the heat shield. okay, you paint it black (more work for your radiators) so they watch for unexpected star occlusions and pretty soon have a good enough idea of your cross section and speed that they are probably getting pretty steamed about your evident sneak attack
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