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If so would you like to give a brief summary? As little handwavium as possible. Humanity is spreading out through the galaxy with ships powered by decaying artificial singularities. The singularities are produced with super powered lasers, and then force fed at short wavelenghs until they are big e...

I do to, honestly. There have been documented cases of head injuries inducing changes in sexual orientation and when you consider what a stroke actually does--kill off large swaths of the brain--it is not exactly shocking that a stroke might alter the neural networks that process sexual stimulation...

As for Venus, you could presumably use your Planet Mover capabilities to ship off most of Venus's atmosphere in the process. Maybe we blow off the extra atmosphere by smacking Venus with a few comets (or RKVs), and possible do triple duty of fixing it's rotation and orbit? We might have to follow u...

This should be easy work with just a few ships and the right mindset. I liked Cesario's plan B. Shitting up their surveillance, censorship, and propaganda abilities and then actively broadcasting counter-propaganda should bring a "really shouldn't function anyway" state like that to it's ...

My quick answer. Propose to disable the surveillance mechanisms.The surveilance mechanisms as effective as 1984s in the novel would have to be functionally mroe high tech than their military, or other tech. Disable the mechanisms with orbiting platform that periodically burn out cameras, hack comput...

Wow. Poes law in action!

My jaw has hit the floor. I don't know what's real anymore. Where is Stephen Colbert to guide me?

Amy Pond. I really like her personality. And on a more shallow note, you can't beat a redhead with legs like that! :lol: MMmm. Pond. I like her curt replies, and ability to kill with a look. I also liked the River Song arc. They made River a women, and not a waif model. Of course, I like the Doctor...

1. Revelation Space.
2. The Culture Novels.
3. Stargate when I feel a little campy.
4. Doctor who, for when I feel very very campy.
5. Mars trilogy. Why did they have to make TerraNova, when they could have done THIS.

Alright. A few hours with no objections? Really? Here's my strategy. 0. Make more SDN posts so I can be in the crew. :mrgreen: 1. Recover Ra's Gate, and the Nazi DHD. Drop them on the moon. This way, you can only enter and exit via puddle jumper, or similar enclosed craft. 1a. This will protect eart...

I'm going to make a list here, just to be sure we're clear. We have 1: Aurora Class Battleship 2. 10 years of fuel 3. 100 shipboard drones 4. 8 Puddle jumpers, each with 12 drones 5. Extra Plasma Cannons as a non standard modification 6. One (1) Earth based stargate only. The one Ra brought. 7. The ...

I crave a realistic space simulator. There are many simulators which come close, but nothing yet. I just cut off the first half of this post, because Simon_Jester and Forgothrax wrote the same ideas first. Make planets "worthless". One you are in space, you can build habs. Newly colonized ...

Purple wrote:I don't think anyone ever tried to capture one. The usual response to demons is either hug it or kill it with fire.

When you read about daemons abandoning perfectly good bodies, where did they go, and were the new bodies as powerful?
If you have a source, i'm curious on how long it took.

It reminds me of something I once saw at low tide. Two different colonies of lichen on the same rock. Same species. There was a sort of no chemical no mans land on the rock between them. I'd wager the one on the spaceship is unable to get a foothold on the planet. The established one cuts off nutrie...

Would the Tyranids be able to adapt to the Thing?

Purple wrote:And the demon could just abandon the body at will and find a new one to posses. It's not like you sealed away anything other than the physical form that is not even its own to begin with.

That is a huge problem. Do deamons often abandon their bodies when captured?

You'd have to sink quite a lot of resources into doing that, even for a relatively minor daemon, but I don't see why it wouldn't be theoretically possible. But while you're doing that, other daemons will break down the doors of your facility and rape you to death. And even if you are successful, it...

Than the demon just commits suicide and reforms in a new body. It's not like you can stop it from doing that since it has magic powers and you don't. Well. These ideas have to fight an uphill battle. How would the daemon kill itself assuming it's completely restrained? I.e Breathing and feeding tub...

Why would the Thing help the Eldar? As far as we know, the Thing has no real goals, or even whether the Thing was sentient (or whether it is something different than what we understand it). IIRC the thing in the movie was trying to build a craft to take itself out of the arctic. Chaos is still arou...

Reading science fiction over the years, I've seen the same space combat tropes over and over. Some more realistic than others. I'd like to try an experiment. Using ideas as the selective pressure, I'd like us to create a space arms race from scratch to see just what happens when you don't start with...

The thing infects enough people to get off the planet but is otherwise stopped by the various institutions on Terra before it can do much harm to the important bits of the IOM. After that it becomes just another enemy of the week that looms over all existence like the nids, the crons and everyone e...

It's not so much that their corpses would re-animate - their physical bodies would dissolve into the air on 'death' and then they'd re-emerge from the warp rift. I should have been more clear. I meant that maybe the deamons can be captured, and encased in concrete. If something is invulnerable, but...

With real daemons around, it'll be real easy to recruit suicide bombers, this time with professionally designed equipment instead of backyard engineering. Can Daemons be killed by exposure to extreme radiation? Because the safest thing to do at that portal might be to air drop some unshielded fissio...

I say NATO dollars well spent. Legalizing polygamy is the first step to legalizing polyandry, meaning Libya is progressing nicely in becoming the swinger capital of the world. I'm all for it if it floats your boat, but as I see it, polygamy must have careful implementation. Everyone in the adventur...