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I'm involved in a discussion on another forum concerning dark matter, and one of the posters there is very skeptical of it's existance, comparing it to the celestial spheres of geocentric cosmology or the epicycles of Ptolemaic astronomy. She does not seem as critical of alternatives like MOND, eve...

One question, and I don't recall if anyone has asked it before: does Jesus have any significance in this cosmology? Was he actually one of Yahweh's minions, sent in an attempt to deceive the humans into millennia of worship, or was he just some crazy guy in Jerusalem? Same question applies to Moham...

GMX is nice, but the google interface is a lot easier to use... less advertisement, links, ect. just mail...

Enola Straight wrote:IIRC, photons DO escape from a singularity...albeit infinitely redshifted and thus invisible.

No, they don't... light cannot escape the event horizon.
(and no, "Hawkins Radiation" is not light coming out of the black hole)

There might be some problems with the pressure inside his bubble too. Because of the similar temperature the chance per second that an air molecule is moved through the bubble should be similar (without any wind), but time is moving faster outside than inside... I'm not completely sure about this, b...

Anti-matter generally won't explode if the ratio of matter/anti is different from 1:1, rather radiation scouring would be more problematic. If you have more matter than antimatter in the container the antimatter part will detonate with the same amount of matter... if it's the other way around you g...

You need 90% of your time to write your code... and then 90% of your time to debug it.

Just use a Linux boot-CD and mount the drive with an NTFS-3G driver... backup all data, then reinstall the system.

Luzifer's right hand wrote:It has been suggested that transformcannon fire has negative effects on 5D Systems when they pass trough them, a ship is not a more or less 5-D inert thing like a planet after all.

Good point...

I see no reason why the ship should block the line of sight of it's own transform cannons in Perry Rhodan.

It would only work if nobody knows or future would be already deterministic.
Otherwise the "perfect prediction" would change the result...

If the range of BSG weapons is below 1000 (or even 10000) km the HH side will just close the distance and kill the opponents with beam weapons... after spending a few missiles volleys and see their opponent jump away.

if the BSG side always run away they cannot win.

You can easily use UDP through a NAT...
the problem is not TCP/UDP, but Client/Server...

The server side of a connection cannot be hidden under a NAT because the Client has to know the Port number to access the server (it could be done with some kind of central server).

Xeriar wrote:...then they would skip the entire RKV idiocy in the first place, like I suggested, and point their star at us.

Keeping the beam of light focused at the distance of tens of hundreds of lightyears might be "a little bit difficult".

That sounds like a third stage for a fusion bomb...

A bomb that use some fusion bombs as a trigger (and each of them has a nuke as a trigger ?)...

Still I wonder how many Mark XI's they have left. The Ori have taken Langara and so they can't get anymore Naquadriah for the bombs.... They are probably using thier initial Naquadriah stockpile to convert Naquadah into Naquadriah on demand. Hopefully doing this on an expendable planet. Maybe they ...

Also the kinetic defense of the Honorverse is much better than the defense against energy weapons. Even their particle shield (inferior to the sidewall) can stop KE impacts up to two gigatons energy. The sidewall is nearly immune to KE impacts (unless your sidewall penetrator is working) and the wed...

Maybe the Honorverse somehow got an early readout of Sheridans "nuke of sufficient yield". That's why only the impeller/sidewall has a chance against them.

The majority of the Candless blast, IIRC, hit the widewall/wedge, only small portions of the energy actually struck "at" the ship directly (or rather at the partticle/radiation shields.) The distance as noted further offsets that. I'm not sure if the Candless even has sidewalls... and the...

The rest of the world will just shoot down the "stealthy" F22 with missiles with better sensors... or hunt them with radar systems capable detecting planes like this.

Dogfighting is a "no brainer" because of the quality of missiles today, and it will stay like this.

Lord of the Abyss wrote:Manticoran Shrikes do; they are the ones with the huge spinal graser for main armament. The others use missles.

Havenite Alphas use a powerful spinal mount laser.

Weber does point out that they are more like PT boats than fighters, though.

Exactly like the Defiant...

The Honorverse LACs have a similar design.

Its not a maybe. Comstar Sourcebook explictly states that even though the HPGs are in House possession, their operation is by Comstar personnel. This remains a source of friction as now their equipment upkeep is paid for by the various governments(explictly mentioned for St Ives Compact) while prof...

They didn't have enough knowledge to operate the HPG stations. The histories are vague but it appears that most Houses simply just forced the adepts to operate it as normal. Maybe, maybe not... Which brings us to another point. Collaboration with the houses must had been major, otherwise, there cou...

The "alchemist" from Hammiltons Nightsdawn triology was nice too. A small mechanism that can create a permanent gravity source... either (weak setting) crushing anything near it into neutronium or (strong setting) creating a miniature black hole. Perfect to vanish a large planet or a sun.....