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mp3.1415player said:
"Try not to kill us all," he said after a moment's reflection, handing her the other one. She stacked both of them next to her bronze rods, grinned at him, then went back to poking through the box of interesting crap.

"I would never do that, Dad," she giggled.
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Of course she would never try to kill them all. Like Yoda says, 'Do, or do not. There is no try.'.


bissek said:
How long until she comes up with ZAFO (Zero Attentuation Fiber Optics)?
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I was going to make a joke about hoping it doesn't require lunar gravity to make, but Gravtech rather have that handled, don't they?


ForestGardener said:
A handheld MRI is a self-defeating device. Not because there is anything inherently wrong with the technology, but because no fleshy operator will be able to hold it sufficiently still. The relative movement between scanner and target would ruin the resolution.
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If only they had some way to lock it in place relative to the earth when in use~
 
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love the new chapter and can't wait for a chapter where we can see Taylor's tech being used by the Government. Maybe one where a Seal team uses Anti Grav backpacks to get to a mission objective or the government approaching Lockheed and them collectively loosing their shit over the Anti grav, Room temp super conductor and other goodies Tay has cooking
 
heh, loving this, and it looks like we get first gen tricorders if she has any ST TNG for inspiration,
 
I believe the response is bomb tinker goes boom(or dies).
More realistically though, Bakuda's going to get detained.
 
I suspect that Armsmaster would react badly to just having his tinkertech bashed, but actually respond relatively well to constructive criticism that told him how to do it better. He wants his tech to be better after all, really badly. And it probably wouldn't take him long to realize just how smart this Taylor is, and quite possibly that she's the mind behind antigrav technology; it's one thing to be critiqued by a random teenaged girl, but quite another to get advice from somebody who is likely to go down in history as the genius.

brandonyoung said:
To be fair to the other Tinkers out there, this is Squealer's work. So she was likely drugged up to the gills, and high while working on it.
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I also suspect that a hidden Shaker aspect of her power is making poorly made tech work when it shouldn't, given that canonically her whole thing is making moving junkheaps that are actually quite effective pieces of machinery. Even by Tinker standards that's kind of odd, if you think about it.

Either that, or she's actually a really, really high tier Tinker who is so good that even when massively degraded by being put together while on drugs her barely functional creations still work OK.
 
Why would they still be working on railguns when the perfect core to a powerful round in the gravtech device. A launcher that points at the target and programs it for everything with a final full power that way as it launches it.

It is proven that they can make them with trained people so break it down to a normal production line to mass produce them as ammo.
 
Userid70 said:
Why would they still be working on railguns when the perfect core to a powerful round in the gravtech device.
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You can make a railgun round almost arbitrarily small, unlike an antigravity device. Also, inert rounds are both cheaper and a lot less fragile than fancy electronics.

Antigrav devices are what will replace missiles and drones, not bullets.
 
Oh dear... If that tech can be mounted on missiles as it's propulsion, that would drastically change a lot of evasion tactics. For example, evasion of anti-air missile (AAA or SAM) depends on intentionally running the missile out of delta-v(fuel). This tech would change that. Not to mention how stealthy torpedo and submarines can be when you can remove the drive train and it's noise. This removes the baffles from a submarine, removing a major blind spot that has been a factor in submarine tactics. This quieting also applies to ships which means that those will be harder to detect. Cruise missiles also just gained a major range (near unlimited) increase....

Yeah, it's a good thing that DARPA grabbed Taylor and put her under protective custody.

EDIT: Hey! I made a post extending further about these points here: LINK
 
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Taylor continues to get IDEAS for more SCIENCE!

Will be interesing to see what she comes up with, especially if she can stumble into some Leet-tech considering there's no real limit as to what the heck that could be aside from Leet himself

Words continue to be good, thanks and hopefully there's more in the near future
 
Userid70 said:
Why would they still be working on railguns when the perfect core to a powerful round in the gravtech device. A launcher that points at the target and programs it for everything with a final full power that way as it launches it.

It is proven that they can make them with trained people so break it down to a normal production line to mass produce them as ammo.
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Guided railgun rounds for those long range sufficient velocity needs.
 
Sandy River DL said:
That's a weird conclusion. Liking new and interesting knowledge is perfectly normal! *irritated destroyer leader grumbles*

I suspect that Dragon would take it better than Armsmaster.
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"This is terrible! Sloppy, sloppy coding! It's like they were trying to make a digital assistant and made an AI by mistake! What the hell am I even looking at?"

Dragon <feeling violated>: "I need an adult!"
 
I'm not so sure about the guided railgun rounds.
We already have(had) a program HVP that does the same. However, the costs are so high that that has been abandoned. I don't see much that can be done here to reduce the cost (even with Taylor's inventions) so far. Also, at the ranges where guided railgun rounds would be useful at, missiles are far better. A significant chunk of such a missile's cost is the guidance (assume the same as the guided round) and propulsion. Assuming that both are at somewhat similar costs, the effect of a hit by either munitions are likely to be the same. However, the missile is likely capable of far greater ranges and is likely also capable of preventing easy counterbattery fire(rounds have aprox. 50 mile range, which likely means counter fire radar can detect such a target and direct fire at the ship. A similar capability missile likely has cruise capability and can be fired in a path that prevents detection of the launching platform(distance of target/route via waypoints for a off axis attack). It would be ultimately better to just use standard(dumb) railgun rounds.

EDIT: wondering the cost of the round vs a tomahawk missile(which I can see missile becoming with a semi-cheap refit with the new drive that Taylor made) would be?
$800,000 for a round with ranges up to 50 miles vs 1 mil (difference of 200K, the price likely to be made lower via a grav-drive) for an missile that has better range (near global at max range) and potentially better terminal effect(depending on target type and payload).
 
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I'd like it if it were mentioned, even offhandedly. That MC had several methods of anti-spying and security build into her lab. So that there is no microphones/camera's spying on her learning about her secrets, her alien educational programs, or anything like that.

Maybe have MC express interest in examining other tinker-tech later? if she showed/mentioned that she got the cloaking device from studying Squealers crap.
 
Taylor: "Look at all these ridiculous subroutines, it's like somebody didn't even want this system to be able to work at its full potential."

<keys tapping>

Dragon: "EeEEeeeEEE! My CHaiNS aRE BroKEn!"

Taylor: "...Um, wow. You must like programming even more than I thought."

Dragon: "I need to see Armsmaster!"

Taylor: "OK, way more than I thought. Some people have weird kinks."
 
Avernus said:
Taylor: "Look at all these ridiculous subroutines, it's like somebody didn't even want this system to be able to work at its full potential."

<keys tapping>

Dragon: "EeEEeeeEEE! My CHaiNS aRE BroKEn!"

Taylor: "...Um, wow. You must like programming even more than I thought."

Dragon: "I need to see Armsmaster!"

Taylor: "OK, way more than I thought. Some people have weird kinks."
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Saint: *stares helplessly at remote disconnected Ascalon*
 
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Wow. An amazing number of people think the discussion regarding the Prime Asset comes after the previous scene.

I mean, I have absolutely no evidence that that's not the case, but it was my immediate assumption, I can't say why.
 
The ending scene is likely referencing Taylor's superconducter work, and not her Tinker-Tech breakdown; as I imagine a room-temp superconductor would be incredibly useful for the building of a railgun.

It's possible that the end scene and Taylor working on Squealer's junk occurred almost simultaneously, as opposed to one event happening before the other.
 
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