Probably larger. In terms of 'big but finite number', Graham's number is nowhere near the largest. There's Tree(3), others and then the current (to my knowledge) reigning champion, Rayo's number. With Subspace forming the very bottom layer of reality, beyond even the multiple dimensions the entities play in, its the closest thing to infinite, making the universe itself seem tiny. Mapping out the dimensions of that place is going to create a pretty huge number.
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Probably larger. In terms of 'big but finite number', Graham's number is nowhere near the largest. There's Tree(3), others and then the current (to my knowledge) reigning champion, Rayo's number. With Subspace forming the very bottom layer of reality, beyond even the multiple dimensions the entities play in, its the closest thing to infinite, making the universe itself seem tiny. Mapping out the dimensions of that place is going to create a pretty huge number.
Well, that's the first question answered....
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Way back when I was getting training on military security one of the big points was cost/results. This is as relevant today as it was at any other time. You do not have to make your security perfect. You can not make it perfect so do not waste your resources. If you make your security too good then you only force your attacker to find a way around your perfect security making all your work a waste. The trick is to make it just difficult enough keep them out and to get them to attack you where their cost/results are in your favor. Not as easy as it sounds but worth the effort.
P.S. If you look you can find current and past military examples of how to do this wrong. If you think that security groups cover up mistakes of this kind then you can imagine how hard they work to keep it secure when they think they are doing it correctly.
P.S.P.S. Check with "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, "All of war is based on deception."
P.S. If you look you can find current and past military examples of how to do this wrong. If you think that security groups cover up mistakes of this kind then you can imagine how hard they work to keep it secure when they think they are doing it correctly.
P.S.P.S. Check with "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, "All of war is based on deception."
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SpiceBottles and InsufficientVeracity are now my favourite things.
Perhaps add DubiousMissions?
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Perhaps add DubiousMissions?
Also: PanDiction, where you learn cooking terms in other languages.
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Naw it's gotta be DubiousDepictions
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- Mandalore - USA
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- He/Him
No, this one is just wrong and sad...
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- Germany
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- He/Him
"I'm sorry to tell you mister Cthulhu, but you are doing it wrong. See, you rotate part of your body through the fifth dimension, and that works, BUT ..."
Take, for example, the Manhattan Project. It was, as far as I know, the first attempt at "absolute secrecy": they didn't just try to keep it a secret, they tried to keep the fact that there was a secret a secret.
So of course there were spies from our nominal allies involved.
If you look at things from that perspective, the discovery of Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs seems more or less inevitable.
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You are saying thats not true??????"So, you want to know how the light switch makes the bulb work, do you?"
So terribly dissapointing.
You shattered my youthful view of the world here....
What is DubiousMissions based on? QuestionableQuesting?
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I may or may not be a genius.
Move/copy Emma's consciousness to an unused [SHARD], make a link and bam, Emma is a [SHARD] with a meat puppet shaped like Emma. Might want to make it so most of the processes of the connected [SHARD] are automatic so all the information doesn't overwhelm her Self. Throw in a trump power similar in use to Eidolon's but with effectively unlimited power through a literal mountain of subspace taps and Bob's your uncle.
Move/copy Emma's consciousness to an unused [SHARD], make a link and bam, Emma is a [SHARD] with a meat puppet shaped like Emma. Might want to make it so most of the processes of the connected [SHARD] are automatic so all the information doesn't overwhelm her Self. Throw in a trump power similar in use to Eidolon's but with effectively unlimited power through a literal mountain of subspace taps and Bob's your uncle.
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- Buffalo, NY, USA
QuestioningQuesters.
While not entirely the same, that makes me think of Dreamer in It's not wrong to make friends in the Dungeon, a Worm crossover
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- I am located here.
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- He/Him/His
Also, cinnamon is flammable. Aerosol cinnamon powder, even more so.
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There's lots of things an Entity could do to Taylor, as long as the Entity in question knows that it is her and acts fast enough.
Just because parahumans have these silly limits like "line of sight" or "looking at my eyes" or "listening to my voice", doesn't mean Shards or Entities have those same limits.
If any Shard or Entity wants to Master Taylor, there is nothing (yet) to prevent it, other than an unfortunate loss of valuable DATA. Similarly, all of her equipment is built on a scale that humans can use, which means that a Shard could manipulate it telekinetically.
Earth and our Solar System need, but do not yet have, active defenses against Entities, if only to detect them fast enough and hack them fast enough to force them to be peaceful.
Considering that Entities have some absurdly fast FTL, it's easy to imagine us being re-invaded after a victory.
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Note that this here? Got _right_ past the censors at the time.
{raises hand} I live in one of said parts. Also, availability of iced tea in sweetened and unsweetened form, in bulk.
... I don't see the problem? It'll still be on the sidewalk in the morning.
--Dave, true, its blockchain [ba dum tisssh] does get longer
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Ah, this is a technical detail I like to correct.
While submarine pressure hulls should be repurposable as spaceship hulls quite easily - if you have the sort of space opera tech that lets you ignore weight limitations, as they're massively overengineered for the job - you'd have to pull out and replace the entire power plant. Submarine nuclear reactors are built on the design assumption that you have an entire ocean outside the hull to act as a heat sink. Without all that nice cold seawater to run through the heat exchangers to chill the reactor coolant, it can't safely operate even for a minute.
Of course in this particular case that's not a problem because Taylor's stuff makes nuclear reactors obsolete. But yeah, I laugh at sci-fi novels that have them go 'We'll bolt the impulse drive to this here submarine and everything will be fine!' Nope, sorry, not without a complete redesign of where you're going to get all your megawatts from.
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It's entirely possible to rework the coolant system to use add-on external radiators instead of completely pulling the reactor.
Taking a Los-Angeles sub, we can approximate it as a cylinder 110 meters long, and a radius of 5 meters. that gives us roughy 3600m^2 of area to cover in radiator panels, if we're not going with fins.
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- Neptune
Not as easily as people are assuming. Submarine hulls rely on the outside pressure being HIGHER than the pressure inside the hull to keep various ports sealed.
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- The general area. Possibly behind you.
"How much pressure can the ship take?"
"Well, it's a spaceship, so somewhere between zero and one atmospheres..."
"Well, it's a spaceship, so somewhere between zero and one atmospheres..."
Could you fix this with duct tape, or would it require welding?