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- 2023-12-05 01:20am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside
- Replies: 138
- Views: 30178
Re: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside
HDS, have to agree - as they are, they fit nicely. Tev, if you've halved power draw, then each light's guts also run that much cooler inside. This slows any chemical reactions you don't want, like corrosion, reduces thermal/mechanical stresses, and gives you a bunch more headroom against a single di...
- 2023-11-08 08:30am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: OHIO VOTES TO ENSHRINE ABORTION RIGHTS INTO STATE CONSTITUTION
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1370
Re: OHIO VOTES TO ENSHRINE ABORTION RIGHTS INTO STATE CONSTITUTION
How does conflict of laws get resolved in the US when it's a federal law (ie, a possible US-wide abortion ban) colliding with a state's constitution (such as in the OP)? I'm not sure if/how federal supremacy would apply here. From what I understand, plain federal law vs plain state law falls under f...
- 2023-07-22 02:01pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 137342
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Tev, are you talking about flags of convenience? - where a ship might have owners in country A, crewed mainly by nationals of country B, and be on the merchant registry of country C?
- 2023-07-10 09:46am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 137342
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Tev, Sochi's on the eastern shores of the Black Sea. According to Google Maps, it's more of a resort town than a port town.
- 2023-06-19 01:19am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: ... New Puppy!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3109
Re: ... New Puppy!
How's Renji setting in?
- 2023-03-15 11:20am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: orbital debris cleanup - gells
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6433
Re: orbital debris cleanup - gells
As OP said, things have already gone full Kessler, creating the need for orbital debris removal on nontrivial scales. IIRC, stuff under 1 cm in size can be cost-and-mass-effectively shielded against, stuff > 10 cm can be tracked (and thus dodged), it's the stuff in that middle size range is the big ...
- 2023-03-12 01:25pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: My Father Has Passed...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1668
Re: My Father Has Passed...
I am also sorry to hear of your loss.
- 2022-09-07 07:56am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: And now the other Dog is gone...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4521
Re: And now the other Dog is gone...
My condolences. It hurts a hell of a lot (and sucks) to lose a beloved pet.
- 2021-12-15 01:58am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 590643
Re: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
Here's a couple of suggestions:
"Crush the lesser races, unlimited rice pudding for all!"
"WAAAGH!"
"Crush the lesser races, unlimited rice pudding for all!"
"WAAAGH!"
- 2021-12-14 03:03am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 590643
Re: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
Ah, gotcha. This wasn't a surprise.
When do we need to start checking the scenery for teeth marks?
When do we need to start checking the scenery for teeth marks?
- 2021-12-13 02:56pm
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 590643
Re: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
... is Truth voiced/portrayed in your head by that SCION OF SILENCE , that PATRON OF PIANISSIMO himself, BRIAN BLESSED ? As DKeith said, things just got complicated - a Halo array was just fired in anger. Weren't the others supposed to do some autonomous response to Cole launching Operation Galvanis...
- 2021-11-29 12:46am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: NASA launches spacecraft to smash into asteroid in bid to nudge it off course
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4921
Re: NASA launches spacecraft to smash into asteroid in bid to nudge it off course
That's an easy one - if it's a five kiltonne rubble pile at 30 km/s, there won't be any locals left to complain. Besides, you can always blame magnetic fields. That worked all the way through my degree :D I was thinking, for an impact into the English Channel/southern North Sea, that "locals&q...
- 2021-11-27 07:59am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: NASA launches spacecraft to smash into asteroid in bid to nudge it off course
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4921
Re: NASA launches spacecraft to smash into asteroid in bid to nudge it off course
Also, is it just me or does Planetary Defence Officer sound like an awesome job title? Yes, it does... right up until an asteroid deflection/fragmentation mission doesn't perfectly succeed and instead of a megatonne rubble pile slamming into one of the soggier bits of the planet at ~30 km/s, a five...
- 2021-10-09 06:26am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 590643
Re: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
Twas worth the wait, nevertheless.
- 2021-05-28 09:09am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe: Standing Against Evil (Out-Of-Universe Stories)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20854
Re: The 13th Tribe: Standing Against Evil (Out-Of-Universe Stories)
Wouldn't the real trick be integrating the diverse bits and pieces?
- 2021-05-09 10:36pm
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe: Standing Against Evil (Out-Of-Universe Stories)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20854
Re: The 13th Tribe: Standing Against Evil (Out-Of-Universe Stories)
Have to admit, I got a good chuckle at the Dreadnought's captain.
- 2021-01-13 07:06am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 590643
Re: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
Sure it won't be the fun having the Spartans?
- 2021-01-07 01:27am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 590643
- 2020-09-25 04:56am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 590643
Re: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
Nice work.
Couple of questions (possibly arising out of my ignorance of Halo):
- Since when were UNSC sergeants commissioned officers?
- When did it become kosher to verbally demote someone?
Couple of questions (possibly arising out of my ignorance of Halo):
- Since when were UNSC sergeants commissioned officers?
- When did it become kosher to verbally demote someone?
- 2020-07-04 05:46am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 590643
Re: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
This looks to be a case of (at least) two populations divided by a common language.
IME, Australian usage of "battleaxe" in this context tracks closer to UK than US usage.
E_F, fair enough about the timelines not quite meshing up - a bit of uncanny valley there?
IME, Australian usage of "battleaxe" in this context tracks closer to UK than US usage.
E_F, fair enough about the timelines not quite meshing up - a bit of uncanny valley there?
- 2020-07-01 02:06pm
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
- Replies: 1040
- Views: 590643
Re: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
Worth the wait. Very minor nitpick - IIRC and going by their respective games, Billy Blaze / Commander Keen was BJ's grandson, and Doomguy was the part-tank-part-lawnmower's great-grandson. Whether Doomguy was also Keen's son was never, iirc, addressed. ”I hate to interrupt Captain, but I’ve just he...
- 2020-04-19 09:56am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: Ships of the 13th Tribe (Ship/Design/Modelling Discussion)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 48641
Re: Ships of the 13th Tribe (Ship/Design/Modelling Discussion)
I figured as much. I've worked on a couple of things where starship(yard) construction has been the limiting reagent and thus needing to be worked out in some detail.
- 2020-04-18 10:20am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: Ships of the 13th Tribe (Ship/Design/Modelling Discussion)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 48641
Re: Ships of the 13th Tribe (Ship/Design/Modelling Discussion)
That sort of arglebargle would be covered under the first-of-kind premium (which could be higher than 40% - I grabbed it from nuclear reactor engineering), assuming the slips were already there, just that they hadn't built anything so damn BIG before. There would have been some gubbins learned from ...
- 2020-04-18 06:46am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: Ships of the 13th Tribe (Ship/Design/Modelling Discussion)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 48641
Re: Ships of the 13th Tribe (Ship/Design/Modelling Discussion)
I was confusing the losses of Pegasus and the Excalibat . Between the time dilation fields and Asgard(-designed) beaming kit, I suspect the critical path for a new Lionheart hull is at least 3 times shorter, to an outside observer, than back in the day. You sure it's only economies of scale rather t...
- 2020-04-17 11:14pm
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: Ships of the 13th Tribe (Ship/Design/Modelling Discussion)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 48641
Re: Ships of the 13th Tribe (Ship/Design/Modelling Discussion)
I like the writeup - good to see 13T isn't dead, just resting. What's the comparative expense (both capital and operational) of a Phoenix -class battlewagon compared to a Lionheart ? 2x? You had previously put Nemesis at 5x - presumably that's just the capital expense. Didn't the Excalibat get almos...