Ballistic HAWK, Hunting All The Way Killer ... has to keep the target in the scope to home in to it. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
If maneuver is impossible why use human crews? Machines can minimax faster than humans and don't make emotional decisions. Or split the difference and use...
Scott Palter, FSW
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... Impressive on human scales, but not that huge on astronomical scales. In the last second of a black hole's lifetime it would emit 2 x 10^22 J. That'd be if...
... If you run through the calculus, you find that the lifetime of a black hole is proportional to the cube of its mass. ... Close enough. Problem is, though,...
... Any chance for laser pumped missiles this time? Sure the performance gain is marginal, but that's your margin for survival on a lancer pass. Also the...
... I wouldn't bet on it. Ken operates under a constraint not totally unlike Hollywood. He not only has to have spaceships blow up real good, he needs to give...
... The "fab gizmos" I speculate about work don't work on nanoscales. I refer to the sort of electron beam freeform fabrication gizmo they're considering for...
... More precisely, *fast* fab gizmos. A fab gizmo is, conceptually, just an automated machine shop. Whatever you use it to make, you pay an opportunity cost...
... I see. I was actually thinking of two different "problems". One was the lack of evidence for primordial black holes, which you've informed me is no problem...
... Well, certainly they'd have to be fast enough...how fast is fast enough, though? ... You would use them to dupe themselves until there were enough of them...
... And that chance that theirs won't get blown up has to be influenced by (or rest on) decisions that the players make during the game. Zooming out an AV:T...
... Check out things like SolidWerks in the Netherlands for making miniatures out of plastics. Even your EBF lathes are sufficient to be nearly magical in an...
X-rays and Black holes? How to capture the massive energy of an x-ray and harnass it for a Dyson sphere? Mike Abrigon - Solid Dyson Sphere, versus a dispersed...
... Depends somewhat on the nature of the feedstock. Most real-world general-purpose fabricators have _terrible_ performance (if used for mass production...
... And we shouldn't just focus on just the E-Beam lathe or similar. The greatest fabrication gizmo in all times is the human hand. But humans are seldom...
One could simply change the conditions of the test. You'll never have 10 km/s closing passes if there's never a reason to get to 10 km/s velocity. One way to...
... This still wouldn't be worthwhile, if the net value of the goods over the lifespan of the device is still less than the cost of the device. Unless by...
Sure. but not over 10 My preference is to have beam weapon ranges sufficiently long that maneuvering can cause a miss. Very difficult to close when you're...
... And what practice space combat we've done so far is the equivalent of firing a rocket at a non-maneuvering target in an orbital reference frame. Getting 5...
... I have nothing against economically disruptive technologies. However, I have an objection to SF which introduces a technology that should be disruptive,...
... Yep. I suspect that my threshold for 'disruptive' is lower than yours. Hence the meta-rule in writing fiction for the Ten Worlds and computers: People...
... That is entirely a problem with the game scale. I have yet to see one realistic reason offered why warships would expend vast amounts of fuel in order to...
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