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51481
+++++Weberian gaffes, ret-cons, and outright tech continuity breaks from the HH books?+++++ Ah, your looking at it all wrong. The Honourverse has a wide tinge...
erik_boielle
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Aug 1, 2005
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51482
Spin rotation...vector addition? Ok... I have a habitat ring 50 metres in radius. I spin it at 3 RPM I have simulated about a half a Gee. Now... What happens...
Joel Callahan
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Aug 1, 2005
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51483
hard science starship for rpg http://www.mega-traveller.com/ship/ship.html some concept renders of a starship based on hard science. Feedback is appreciated. ...
Joel Callahan
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51484
... Lack of a large distinctive fuel tank is odd. The radiation shielding covers way more area than it needs to. It really only needs to be big enough to...
Anthony Jackson
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Aug 1, 2005
11:57 pm
51485
... really ... practical. Where are the radiator structures for the hab spheres? Likewise, where are the radiator structures for the engine? What's her drive...
Ken Burnside
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Aug 2, 2005
12:30 am
51486
... It's a good start and I see that some of the crew are already offering bits of hard sci-fi goodness. I'm kind of the neighborhood unofficial English...
Todd Zircher
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Aug 2, 2005
2:44 pm
51487
Presuming you can get the list admins to notice your application for membership. I've tried twice to join and had no one approve or deny it within 14 days,...
Matt P.
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Aug 2, 2005
8:28 pm
51488
... Good point, I have not heard anything from Rachel Kronick since July 9th. If she's going to be away from the web for extended periods of time, she should...
Todd Zircher
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Aug 2, 2005
9:23 pm
51489
... Sorry, I get busy. I hope you'll understand that the list can't be the highest priority in my life. I did in fact send in the membership confirmation to...
Rachel Kronick
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Aug 2, 2005
10:53 pm
51490
... I appreciate that, and understand that the list isn't the highest priority. Sorry, had a weird day at work and it translated into irritation. I should not...
Matt P.
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Aug 2, 2005
11:29 pm
51491
G'day guys, Comic spoiler space Don't know if that was really warranted, but better to be safe than sorry right? The fly page of the comic makes it painfully...
beth.fulton@...
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Aug 3, 2005
12:19 pm
51492
... no one ever said Firefly was the most scientifically accurate universe. As for the light issues... Maybe it's a binary, or trinary system. Also, there...
Cooper Fox
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Aug 3, 2005
12:52 pm
51493
Well, I'm not intending to be rude, but yeah, that's being picky. :) I'm pretty sure the intent of Firefly is to tell a really good story and, on TV, with some...
Victor Einhardt
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Aug 3, 2005
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51494
... I agree with everything you said, and I still think it's an odd decision. On one hand he has realistically silent space, but on the other he constructs a...
Chris L'Etoile
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Aug 3, 2005
4:10 pm
51495
Space is big... REALLY big! Anything is possible. For example, most people live on Moons. How many moons does Jupiter have? Saturn? No reason why that ...
Cooper Fox
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Aug 3, 2005
4:24 pm
51496
Oh yea... Having not FTL also keeps the playing field small. As in, they can't run forever. There are only so many places to hide. ...
Cooper Fox
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Aug 3, 2005
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51497
... That's part of the problem. Space is big but habitable zones for planets are not. Out around Saturn and Jupiter way, the Sun is just another bright star...
Todd Zircher
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Aug 3, 2005
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51498
Well, we ARE talking about Joss Whedon here....the dude who made Buffy and Angel? :) Unless I'm being an idiot here since I was *just* introduced to this show...
Victor Einhardt
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Aug 3, 2005
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51499
... [snip] ... The old SF trope of orbital artificial suns would relegate this to a non-problem. -- Ashley Ashley@... I know that you believe...
Ashley
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Aug 3, 2005
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51501
G'day ... non-problem. I'm probably being physics-thick somewhere, but I would've thought that if you had the energy to create stable artifical stars then FTL...
beth.fulton@...
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Aug 4, 2005
2:17 am
51502
... Not necessarily true, as creating a star is just a super-difficult physics-engineering problem, while FTL breaks the laws of physics. Also, your last...
Ashley
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Aug 4, 2005
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51503
G'day, ... That's why I said near FTL ;) I was thinking that if they had the energy to create stars they'd have the energy for near FTL (though if I kept up...
beth.fulton@...
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Aug 4, 2005
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51504
... a lost art. ... I just refuse to let myself be bothered about it. Though, in the event that Ten Worlds ever becomes a media/TV/movie/whatever...
Ken Burnside
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Aug 4, 2005
1:43 pm
51505
... Yeah, but I have a feeling that in that case he would have one hell of a "technical advisor"...
Nate Smars
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Aug 4, 2005
1:48 pm
51506
Please do so after we part company businesswise. I'm a Weddon fanatic but his style is the antithesis of Ten Worlds. Everything in the universe is maliable...
scott palter, final s...
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Aug 4, 2005
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51507
... Re-watching the pilot 2-parter on SciFi Channel reinforced that for me. It seems to me that the Reiver ship was passing by at a range of 14 klicks or so...
rmrobinson1227
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Aug 4, 2005
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51508
... Damn, that would be coolific! -- Rick...
rmrobinson1227
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Aug 4, 2005
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51509
If you want someone who is a faithful researcher and could do it justice might I suggest as possible screenwriters [in an imaginary universe where we could...
scott palter, final s...
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51510
... Now you've piqued my interest, so get started! :> (With the small proviso that the "2001" should be evaluated in terms of 1968 knowledge and assumptions.)...
rmrobinson1227
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