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I think the spaceship from The Fountain is beautiful. Style over substance for the win. ;) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/Lokismith/misc/fbub.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/Lokismith/misc/fountain.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/Lokismith/misc/fountain_apple_17.jpg I also...

I prefer these commercials that say "not fun and games and you have to be earnest and mature.". Nobody can claim to suffer from false advertising as a result. Being earnest and mature would be false advertising in the case of the Austrian army... Those adverts are mainly aimed at conscrip...

Assassination is a way of earning money quickly but the risk of getting killed is way too high in this scenario. He knows nothing about the workings of the world the Wheel of Time is set in after all. Also there is nobody around to cast revivification on him which makes getting killed even less fun....

Shouldn't the normal Paratron provide enough protection, just shunting the shot off into hyperspace? I know what you mean but Paratron shields have never been used to protect against energy of that magnitude in the series. Brute force was never an effective way to overwhelm shields in the series, i...

The shields used to protect the swarms(mobile star clusters) from Perry Rhodan can take the impacts of star systems moving at 0.5 c which should enable them to resist something like the DS superlaser.

*snipped stuff about Perry Rhodan Shifts posted by myself and Batman* This. The original Shifts are flying tanks which are built with the motto "Jack of all trades, master of none". A armoured vehicle which can drive on tracks, is an anti-grav vehicle, can operate on- and under-water(and ...

As the Rhodanites appear to be on holiday, late pre-Hyperdepression Shift. 5 MT transform cannon (essentially a teleporter cannon that will drop the warhead in your shields if you have the right kind of shields and in your lap if you don't), 780MW generic EM ray gun/phaser (as in disintegrates matt...

How do the tracking mechanisms for the hyper-missiles work, again? They travel in hyper-space, but they should still require Einstein-space input in order to hit moving targets. Star wars has the technology to jam electromagnetic and gravitic sensors, as well as subspace and other technobabble ones...

Oh, and nevermind Mobys and the Suprahet which few people here would know about but how about LEXX? The Mobys are anorganic though. They are the result of a bio-wank process though. Once the "Radolxin" is deployed on a planet it first infects lifeforms like bacteria which takes about 8-10...

William Barton is a fan of "anti-"minimalism: Spoilers for "Acts of of Conscience" follow Way before the time the book is set a civil war with FTL weapons destroyed a multi-galaxy alliance(galaxies as far away as 17 million light years from the milky way were part of it). In one ...

If calcs on FTL range from a bit below to possibly above hyperdrive, is there any explanation for why they bothered using FTL instead of hyperdrive, or why later ships don't uise it at all? Does Hyperspace just not work on stuff that's really big? Is FTL slower but more power efficient etc etc. Hyp...

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Luzifer's right hand wrote:I nominate "The Fountain".

Seriously? That movie was a pile of bull shit.

I personally think it's an awesome movie and have watched it three times so far.
I even got the soundtrack.
The only SF movie in the 2000s I enjoyed nearly as much is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I nominate "The Fountain".

I enjoyed the film quite a bit, no masterwork but decent entertainment.

I agree that parts of the ship looked quite cool.
I found the flashback scene in which another ship lunches it's life pods in deep space quite breathtaking.

There is always the possibility of just injuring an animal and failing to track it down afterwards, that possibility is lower or higher depending on your skill and equipment. If you fail to track an injured animal or manage to track it down does not really make that much of a difference in my opinio...

Linear acceleration is not the same as maneuverability and Ford is right. Current Perryverse Earth capships can accelerate at 10,000 gees and that's about a TENTH of what they USED to be able to do. Outmaneuver every other universe my ass. In the current cycle 220 km/s² is the new standard. But in ...

I don't know much about nBSG but a lot of scenes set on Tollana were shot at the Simon Fraser University afaik.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fraser_University

In the alternate future the entirely Earth built ship Phoenix has fully functional Asgard weapons. My guess would be that the weapons require exotic materials, and the Hammond being the newest ship hasnt been outfitted yet. Would also make sense that the Hammond was being used to ferry supplies to ...

Given that we've seen them penetrate Ori and Ancient-y (Asurans, but close enough) shield systems with relative ease, I'm not willing to make the jump that Goa'uld shields are somehow more resistant, especially since they're basically bad copies of Ancient shields anyway. At least not without furth...

They mentioned they might be Lucien Alliance-maybe they bought themselves some Ori black market upgrades, meant Carter couldn't pound them as easily as the SGC normally handles Ha'taks. Has a Tauri ship ever destroyed a Ha'tak on screen? Most SG-verse space battles involve shielded ships, I think w...

The First Ones from B5 other than the Shadows and Vorlons? Which like the cosmocrats and chaotarchs from Perry Rhodan had their plans fucked up by the Younger Races? :D The solution for the Thoregon stuff was actually fairly nice, instead of killing very being involoved(Plan B :P) they just got som...

It's a tactic sometimes used in the Perry Rhodan series of novellas. However their shields act as hyperspace shunts, simply making the energy go somewhere else , rather than actually deflecting it. It was used before the hyperspace shunting shields were introduced. Pretty much a standard tactic as ...

I recommend the Braided Path by Chris Wooding.
All other fantasy series that are still in my mind are not finished and I won't recommend unfinished stuff.
(I'm currently on a non-SF/F phase when it comes to reading)

One the SF side, maybe the Dread Empire's Fall series by Walter Jon Williams?

Congratulations to STOFSK.

Hopefully the real murder will be found.

I enjoyed the series well enough, however it is not among my favourite fantasy series, mostly because there is only one likeable character(Achamian) and I'm not that much into philosophy.
Bakkers SF book Neuropath was better imho.