Posts by Hcobb@spacey.space
(DIR) Post #AkYVXFLqeWGps75N5c by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-08-02T11:25:01Z
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Has anybody planned out a jumprope mission to Mars?The fuel tanks and nuclear ion engine acts as a counterweight at the end of a long cable for artificial Grav on the way there and then a slingshot to kill the capsule's travel speed for a straight drop down, then the main ship overshoots and works its way back.
(DIR) Post #Akw0KuvcKE1CGpUmIa by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-08-13T19:11:55Z
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Star Trek ships don't need radiators because when they're in warp they dump their waste heat behind an event horizon.
(DIR) Post #Al4iWUMkrL1SbzCEMa by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-08-18T00:07:49Z
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Just as the size of the infantry company or platoon really doesn't change that much with tech advances, a Fletcher-class destroyer had 329 officers and enlisted and a nearly five times larger Arleigh Burke-class destroyer has 23 officers, 300 enlisted.So your interstellar warp capable space destroyer shall mass around 100k tons, and have 20 officers and 300 enlisted.
(DIR) Post #AlC7fWlv8p7fdl5rto by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-08-21T11:41:00Z
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Diversions and ExcursionsSpace Battlecruiser Otto on the way to Ceres gets a transmission from Sol Command to take a look at something that's popped up along or near their route, what are the options?If the ship has already passed something that they don't have the thrust or delta V to back up to then all they can hope to do is take a look with their sensors.If the subject is ahead of them, but with no time to stop, they can do a pass by.1/2
(DIR) Post #AlC7fYc4IQQjLmV1ou by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-08-21T11:41:11Z
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And finally if they have space and time they can arrange to stop.Whataboutism a trap? Should BC Otto run a zig-zag course to avoid arriving at a predictable point in spacetime?2/2
(DIR) Post #AlC7fb1fKE5spkUUzo by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-08-21T12:03:31Z
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Perhaps Otto can send her high acceleration but low delta-v spacefighters to close the gap in a flyby?
(DIR) Post #AlEAebkVq3tWxxbkm0 by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-08-22T13:15:50Z
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@isaackuo Or the probes are sailbots and the battlecruiser's lasers push these on one-way hyperbolic paths.
(DIR) Post #AlEAecTX8fuJDafhwm by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-08-22T13:21:03Z
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@isaackuo The sailprobe being effectively invulnerable as only the launching ship knows the high-G path it is sent on and hence can't be targeted by hostile forces.
(DIR) Post #AlZ3Q0KvWRIZWEt8b2 by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-09-01T13:47:36Z
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What exactly are the colony systems shipping back to Sol system to pay off their trade deficit in intellectual property such as entertainment, scientific development, and R&D?https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ keeps saying metals, but starlifting Sol would be astronomically less expensive.1/2
(DIR) Post #AlZ3Q2z3gCaXjHgDQW by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-09-01T13:47:46Z
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Whataboutism the Flag is the Trade? The colonies provide allegiance to the empire of Sol and hence have their local militia hired by the empire. The settlement of the galaxy is tiny line item in the military budget called "Distant Intelligence, Surveillance, and Recon".2/2
(DIR) Post #AlnJrA95TlbvEulGue by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-09-08T12:30:10Z
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@nyrath ISTR in Metagaming's Holy War some text about the need to "englobe" enemy forces but this never being a concern in play.Have there been any games where a 3D blockade is used to deny supplies, breakouts, reinforcements, or economic links?
(DIR) Post #AlnLVWXHkfeIDetCfw by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-09-08T11:23:42Z
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Span of control for drone swarms.Just as a general doesn't order individual soldiers around, each level of command will take the reports of its reporting units and synthesize these into a narrative report to its own superior.
(DIR) Post #AlpyhfLj5swLYdBQhM by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-09-09T20:01:33Z
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@hn50 Now combine this with an Iran Air Flight 655 situation where all the sheeple have complete trust in their mistaken belief of what they think the machine is trying to tell them.
(DIR) Post #Alq0NAbXtPSmJwwAl6 by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-09-09T19:59:33Z
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Anybody written a SciFi story where the AGI overlord is no more aware of each human's existence than these humans are aware of what each of their blood cells is doing?
(DIR) Post #AlryNPkhlLHVhz87hA by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-09-10T17:48:27Z
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@jdnicoll Can we call the young women whose presence is required to invoke the magic of the magical fnording torch space drives magical girls, or is that un-pc?
(DIR) Post #Am73d6Ryi0XDcT4OnI by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-09-18T01:46:10Z
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@foone @cstross Please don't break the simulation!That's where all my stuff is.
(DIR) Post #AmIY3311EijVrLJ4VM by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-09-23T14:49:28Z
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@hn50 Note carefully far away from any lightweight item that might catch a breeze.
(DIR) Post #AoAkcaTB1KPyxpJaBE by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-11-18T16:17:06Z
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@strypey Do you agree with Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review who wrote: "As stories go, [JMS' ]" The Road Home" is pretty meh, standard sci-fi fare with a sappy, humanistic overlay."
(DIR) Post #ApXEd4AqG1lrGq2l1M by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-12-29T10:29:15Z
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@lextenebris The oil must flow, but the sleeping religion must not awaken!
(DIR) Post #ApXEpeqHkcNsTFQruS by Hcobb@spacey.space
2024-12-29T10:31:33Z
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@lextenebris Magic works, but it's powered by turning gold into lead.