nyrath

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by nyrath 3y ago
Leigh Brackett also wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973)
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by nyrath 3y ago
Technically, the ones with slides are called "perrygrafs" or "slide charts". https://sphere.bc.ca/test/perrygraf.html Nomograms have no moving slides, they are static printed scales read with an ang
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by nyrath 4y ago
"King David's Spaceship" aka "A Spaceship For The King" by Jerry Pournelle
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by nyrath 11y ago
There are some notes on warship classification here: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewarship.ph...
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by nyrath 12y ago
Agreed, but to be pedantic, it applies to all momentum machines which carry its own "propellant", not "fuel". For instance, in a NERVA rocket, the "fuel" is the uranium rods in the reactor, the "propellant
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by nyrath 12y ago
Solar Sail, Laser Sail, Electric Sail, Magnetic Sail, Mini-magnetospheric plasma sail, MagBeam, Plasma Magnet Sail, Photon Drive, Bussard Ramjet, Ram-Augmented Interstellar Rocket. Basically any spacecraft that does not carry its own prop
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by nyrath 14y ago
I'm no expert but I think the answer is "No", due to other problems. Distances are closer in Globular Clusters. Alas, those are "metal poor", so the only planets are gas giants like Jupiter. Distances are closer in Open Galactic Clusters li
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by nyrath 14y ago
The saucer looks suspiciously like "Project Silver Bug" http://www.foia.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090218-169.... It appeared in many of the popular magazines of the time http://blog.modernmechanix.com/issue/?magname=MechanixIllust
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by nyrath 14y ago
And about five minutes later, zillions of programmers would start writing similar apps, in hope of a big payday when Facebook shows up to buy them out.
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by nyrath 14y ago
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/03/advanced-propulsion-physics...
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by nyrath 15y ago
I suggest that you look into PyQt / PySide On the surface it is a GUI engine, but it has much more inside.
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by nyrath 15y ago
Not much. The main difference between a missile and a robot controlled spacecraft is that the latter has more propellant. The spacecraft presumably is intended to return while the missile is just has to arrive at the target. The spacecraft
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by nyrath 15y ago
Well, that turns out not to be the case. I'm the author of the Project Rho site, and I did not write the essay on the Spacebattles forum. But I agree with all the points the poster made, he just wrote the article more succinctly than I did
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by nyrath 15y ago
Here is a scary thought http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/weirdastronomy.php#id--Elda...
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by nyrath 15y ago
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsN...
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by nyrath 15y ago
Things that need to be rethought? Well, pretty much the entirety of physics for starters. http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/fasterlight.php#id--Causali...
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by nyrath 15y ago
Well, you can avoid changing basic human motivations by using an alternative solution. Jay Gould is attributed to have said "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. "
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by nyrath 15y ago
I was under the impression that the extraction and purification of rare earth elements was such an ecological catastrophe that environmental protection laws in the US had made the existing mines in the US so unprofitable that they shut down
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by nyrath 15y ago
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/fasterlight.php#id--Causali... "Causality, Relativity, FTL travel: chose any two. You cannot have all three." Physicists choose Relativity since it has been tested to many decimal places and always comes t
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by nyrath 16y ago
Raphaël Poss adapted Tenqwar to the artificial language Lojban http://vodka-pomme.net/projects/tengwar-for-lojban/
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by nyrath 16y ago
http://venturefizz.com/blog/ten-steps-build-basic-content-hu...