... That's a good question Henry. We assumed that conflict was prevalent, but no more common than it was during our own history. I know that that sounds like a...
First, I hope everyone forgives the remarkable amount of ignorance I'm certain this post will display. I'm designing what I hope is a reasonably plausible...
... Others more scientifically-minded can chime in, but from my limited understanding it sounds reasonable enough. More to the point, I applaud your...
... Except it's unlikely that a freighter of a given mass will have the same drive power as a war ship of equal mass. So you probably would have a fair idea of...
... And when it's not thrusting, if you can see it with an IR telescope, a freighter would be fairly cool along its hold, with hot spots at either end. The...
... It tells you, at a minimum, the power output, exhaust velocity, mass, and where it's going. Depending on details of the drive technology, it may tell you...
Thank you for all the responses thus far. (And thank you, Mr. The Nearly Wise, for your superb site). This is a great exercise to help shape my thinking. On...
knowing the mass gives you an upper limit on the opponents capabilities - a small ship could take on ballast to appear larger, not the other way round i.e. if...
... Note that this depends in part on whether antimatter is "mined" (i.e., occurs naturally, and you harvest it) or created. (I'm assuming you are harvesting...
I like you, Fred! ... well, ping happens a lot... pong is a typical reply... Phong sorta deals with some of the math behind lighting and 3D modeling... -joel ...
This may be possible but I wonder if there aren't a couple off issues that could complicate this approach. One is that you have to get enough detail to be able...
... Though it strikes me as over-egging the pudding a bit - one scarce resource needed for ship propulsion is plenty to fight over! For that matter, even if...
... issues that could complicate this approach. ... ship HAS colder areas. Though AC Jackson pointed out something important and rather subtle. A warship might...
Reading back all this ... for a vessel that is applying thrust, anywhere in the system (not obsured by another large mass), the petty officer at the sensor...
... With one important proviso - you need to triangulate to get the distance. From one observation point you only get the direction, but don't know whether...
... Whups, yes. Lost a bit ... Was responding to ... ... resource needed for ship propulsion is plenty to fight over! For that matter, even if both are costly...
... While 100m interferometers aren't _that_ incredible (Keck is 85 meters and built a decade ago) a lot of the measurements don't need high resolution anyway...
... One minor comment here -- running on low power won't actually disguise the current mass, because you get mass by looking at current drive power and...
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Weapon I just became recently aware of: the AN-94 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN-94 It has an interesting two round burst mode (I'm reminded of the three ...
... I thought the theory was the same as that in the G11 - by firing a very fast burst you get a grouping that's tight enough to improve your hit chance,...
I keep reading more and more Honor Harrington novels. I'm on the 4th one - where she moves to Grayson after the tragic events in her personal life (spoiler...
... Yep. 1903 PD (about the time the seond book starts) is 4006 AD. ... I do, but since I'm the co-author I'm a little biased. :-) Still, I'm happy to answer...
... I own Saganami Island Tactical Simulator, the space combat game for the HH universe produced by Ad Astra Games. It is very good simulation of tactical...
). ... 4000AD? Ayep - year 1 PD is 2103 AD, so year 1900 Post Diaspora (On Basilisk Station) is 4003 AD. It so happens that the Gregorian calendar cycles...
Slightly OT... I'm getting rid of a number of things on eBay including some games that may interest SF-Consim people (eg Starmada) http://tinyurl.com/ayqnq ...
Thanks Ken... Will check it out -joel ... From: sfconsim-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sfconsim-l@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Ken Burnside Sent: Tuesday, July...
