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47882
Greetings: "For example, AV:T is probably harder SF than anything that's appeared in a wargame to date...and matches your second definition: There's FTL, but...
Fred Kiesche
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Feb 1, 2005
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47883
That's one that I never played, but had several friends that did so, very enthusiastically. It was also one of the few that actually made money consistently...
Joey Browning
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Feb 1, 2005
2:35 pm
47884
... Yup Legends has always been good at making money. I've never seen another PBeM that can charge a $10.00 setup fee and a .30 cents per order charge and...
Brad Clarkston
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Feb 1, 2005
6:44 pm
47885
Yeah, Edi was an interesting guy. Met him and had a conversation with him one year at PBMCon when it was still in Cleveland. Who was the guy with the long hair...
Joey Browning
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Feb 1, 2005
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47886
... First, let's be clear on terminology. What people normally mean by "active search" is search that radiates something out to where targets might be to see...
brianmccue22312
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Feb 1, 2005
8:38 pm
47887
Message: 5 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:55:58 +0000 From: dmclean62@... Subject: Re: Hard (non-FTL) Science or Medium (FTL) Science Fiction novels Dear...
FOTSGreg@...
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Feb 1, 2005
10:46 pm
47888
... radiates ... not ... wanted, ... us) ... Brian, An interesting (to me at least) question would/might be "What if the object being detected is moving at...
Greg Ellis
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Feb 1, 2005
11:20 pm
47889
... When I said passive search, I meant continuously scanning the area around a spacecraft, but not doing a high defination inch by inch scan of the area. The...
Cooper Fox
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Feb 1, 2005
11:22 pm
47890
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:19:08PM -0000, Greg Ellis distributed foul capitalist propaganda: [...] ... With active narrow-beam scanning (like LIDAR) - well,...
Leszek Karlik
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Feb 1, 2005
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47891
... You may have problems with initial detection, however -- if the object is moving fast enough to cover multiple pixels during the duration of an exposure,...
Anthony Jackson
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Feb 1, 2005
11:55 pm
47892
Anybody know if it's true or accurate? It has "nuggets" of truth, but what about overall? (Posted from Rantburg.com). Thanks, Greg Why WARSIM Was Late and Over...
Greg Ellis
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Feb 2, 2005
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47893
... possibly. ... object ... of an ... as ... Hmmmm... Modern radio telescopes and even optical detectors are notoriously slow. Sophisticated tracking systems...
Greg Ellis
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Feb 2, 2005
12:16 am
47894
WARSIM is real enough: http://www.peostri.army.mil/PRODUCTS/WARSIM/ http://www.tsjonline.com/story.php?F=588671 ...
Paul Williams
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Feb 2, 2005
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47895
I'm working up the description of Alverez Station (AKA Fomalhaut Station) for the SFRPG FTL:2448. In the game the station is miles long and was not really...
John Reiher
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Feb 2, 2005
1:16 am
47896
original source www.strategypage.com usually QUITE reliable and is run by the founders of SPI scott ... From: Greg Ellis To: sfconsim-l@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
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47897
i've been interested in exploring the use of unmanned remote controlled combat vehicles in a space naval combat setting. Or as Ken might call it, remuneration...
Eric Henry
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Feb 2, 2005
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47898
... What level of decision-making is required of the operator? Can he just sic the dogs onto a target? Or does he have to more or less hand-fly each drone,...
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Feb 2, 2005
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47899
http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?m=200412#post-473 Someone is upset at the NIMBYs, methinks Joey Browning jbrowning1@... [Non-text...
Joey Browning
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Feb 2, 2005
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47900
... The simplest way to load balance a large rotating object such as an O'Neill Cylinder is to make the mass of the moveable components (dynamic load) trivial...
Gordon Horne
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Feb 2, 2005
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47901
... I knew there was an error in this numbers. I checked my calculations five times. I found the error 63 seconds after i sent the message. ... 130.000E6 m^3 ...
Gordon Horne
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Feb 2, 2005
4:28 am
47902
THAT is hilarious! Bravo to the person who made the poster. -Matt P....
Matt P.
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Feb 2, 2005
4:29 am
47903
... Unfortunately, the Yahoo! group doesn't exist. :-( TAFN g [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Gordon Horne
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Feb 2, 2005
4:36 am
47904
... Someone with more free time should start it up. :)...
Ken Burnside
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Feb 2, 2005
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47905
... That could easily be remedied. -- We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are...
Michael Llaneza
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Feb 2, 2005
4:56 am
47906
the operator(s) would pilot, navigate, shoot multiple direct fire weapons ( nine? ), launch missiles, detect, identify, and track targets, broadcast ECM... ...
Eric Henry
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Feb 2, 2005
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47907
... No argument there. ... I assumed a 100m structural depth, for reasons given below. I get an enclosed volume pf 1,780,235,850m3 (1600m length, 1,000m...
Matt P.
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Feb 2, 2005
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47908
Yes it does: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stoptheelevator/ I just visited it a few minutes ago. 45 members, 5 messages. -Matt P....
Matt P.
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Feb 2, 2005
5:19 am
47909
... Best guess, 3-6 operators. Pre-AEGIS used 11-15 operators in CIC. Modern ships - dunno, but 6 is a good guess. The ultimate consolidation is 3 - 2 junior...
Matt P.
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Feb 2, 2005
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47910
... Thanks Gordon... I'm trying to decipher what these numbers mean. Do you mean that the mass per person is 4,295 or am I misreading this? Sorry, I'm a bit...
John Reiher
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Feb 2, 2005
5:49 am
47911
... Based on what you said below, it may not be enough room. "Oblate hemispheroids" is a shape I can't quite image. Sorry Matt. So, if we were to double the...
John Reiher
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