... ObSFRef: SF author James Blish used that as handwavium often in his novels. He called it "ultrawave", it turns up in many novels but mostly in his CITIES...
I realize that I do not have a complete understanding, but isn't the fact that you can Detect that this phenomena is in fact FTL conveying information?Or am I...
By my understanding, energy can be efficiently stored in superconductor's magnetic field. Is this basically just an electrical equivalent of a flywheel, with...
That's your power limit, take it or leave it. -HJC http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=729 The Boeing team's unique solar concentrator design...
..i am looking for the author and title of a SF short story .. the setting is a huge flying wing, used for passenger transport, where smaller aircraft (b737...
... And there's a crash when one of these smaller planes attempts to dock so they have to weld special rails so the passenger seats can move off the crashed...
... I'm not quite sure by what you mean by "basically just an electrical equivalent of a flywheel". For one thing, a superconductive energy storage solenoid...
This is interesting, although I don't think I have seen FTL radio waves proposed in any SF I have read in recent memory. I did compile a list of human -...
... No, what's meant is that you cannot use it to send information. In a way it is similar to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox -- when one of two entangled...
... "Between a Rock and a High Place" by Timothy Zahn, collected in "Time Bombs and Zahndry Other Stories" and in Asimov's anthology "Space Shuttles"...
It's a short article that will no doubt get you thinking... Just read it. http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_extinction_oscillator/ -- The lessons...
On the general topic of extinctions, and the Permian extinction in particular, I highly recommend Douglas Erwin, Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250...
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Luke Campbell<lwcamp@...> wrote: Lots of good stuff ... Yes, thank you. Something I don't understand, however, is why a ...
A gentleman over at StarDestroyer.net is of the opinion that relativistic weapons (RKV) are an inefficient way of attacking planets in a neighboring solar...
... Is he trying to build a lens to "harvest" star light into a beam or to build a "giant laser" like dr. evil? :) In both cases, I see the issue of keeping...
... *snip* IIRC, Issac Kuo proposed something similar using bomb pumped lasers as the source quite some time ago. So congratulations to this person as...
... I agree with the idea that near-c RKVs are not practical. However, slower relativistic starfleets offer the ability to concentrate many years or decades...
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