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Raved Thrad said:
I might have to reread the main story, since I can't remember if Coil has been unCoiled yet. What with both Piggot and Lexi having thrown snitfits about Gravtec, I'm sure that Ol' Snakeface will have learned enough to have gotten interested. And being the arrogant shit he is, I doubt that the mere presence of the alphabet soup of agencies currently inundating Brockton Bay would be enough to dissuade him.

A small localized singularity, however, should do the trick. :rofl:
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Coil got Three Letter'd a bit ago already. As for Ol' Snakeface, he's in a different dimensional cluster and dead. No need to gravbomb either of them.
 
Raved Thrad said:
I might have to reread the main story, since I can't remember if Coil has been unCoiled yet. What with both Piggot and Lexi having thrown snitfits about Gravtec, I'm sure that Ol' Snakeface will have learned enough to have gotten interested. And being the arrogant shit he is, I doubt that the mere presence of the alphabet soup of agencies currently inundating Brockton Bay would be enough to dissuade him.

A small localized singularity, however, should do the trick. :rofl:
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Tattletale sold Coil to the Government for a nice new job already. So, he's a non-factor going forward.

Also, Piggot has taken the reasonable view that Gravtec is Not Her Problem, and is willing to let DARPA deal with them. Only RCB is being unreasonable.

Annnd Imp'ed while typing. Typical...
 
Magery said:
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Last time I was here, we were derailing about grammar nitpicks. This time we're derailing about space combat. If this thread was writing fanfiction about Sufficient Velocity, I'd be congratulating you on your pitch-perfect characterisation.

Anyway. I'm not really here to talk about the derailing. It's going to stop now, but it's not a huge deal. No—I'm here to talk about this.





Let me be blunt: the Staff are not weapons.

It is a requirement of Rule 3: Be Civil that our posters respect the site itself. What that means is that it is a requirement that they do not point to the features of the forum, things like the ignore list and like reports and like Moderation, and say "I am going to use this against you". We, and the tools we give you, are not to be held in arms against others engaging in behaviours you do not approve of—we are not to be pressed to their metaphorical throat to encourage them into compliance. We do not wear jackboots; we wear anime1​ avatars. We are not remorseless, poorly-regulated implements of state power; we are idiots who spend our spare time asking people to stop yelling at each other about videogames.

But that's not the point. The point is this: if compliance needs to be encouraged, then someone with a pretty pink name like me will come into the thread and make a post in one of the shiny coloured boxes and it will be as the Disney live-action remaster of the mountain was to Moses. And that will be that. No need for any extra palaver.

(That doesn't mean you can't ask people to knock off derails, or settle down arguments, or stop being horrible to minorities, or stop being weird about teenagers, and so on. It certainly and absolutely does not mean that you shouldn't use reports and the ignore button and so on to deal with people who are breaking the rules or annoying you or whatever.

It just means you don't need to talk about doing those things. You just need to... do them, and Inanna will know her own.)

1​ There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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Oh... sorry
 
Aineko said:
It's interesting how narrow Taylor's known tech is in some respects:
-Gravity and motion control
-Supercomputing
-Some mini sensors

She's got a few things outside of that that we know in her private collection, mostly subspace stuff but also her neural interface.

Not really any chemistry, biology, automation, or the like as far as I can recall.
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you forgot the type 2 room temp superconductor for about 1-2 dollars per pound(irl stainless steel prices as of posting)
 
Aineko said:
It's interesting how narrow Taylor's known tech is in some respects:
-Gravity and motion control
-Supercomputing
-Some mini sensors

She's got a few things outside of that that we know in her private collection, mostly subspace stuff but also her neural interface.

Not really any chemistry, biology, automation, or the like as far as I can recall.
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A small innovation with imagination goes a very long way .
Just those thing you listened completely upend Earth's tech base in almost every field .
real world example of such small innovations with limitless possibilities:
Semiconductor materials.
Transistor
Laser (when first discovered, was thought to be useless )
Affordable Steal forging

Just those four affected innovation in many fields of study , including biology , chemistry , astronomy 🔭, physics
A little imagination goes a long way .
 
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And don't forget, Taylor has also invented a portable MRI scanner with very impressive resolution. even more, she documents the science behind each one well enough that others who aren't as scarily smart as her can follow along and innovate. For each single invention she creates and shares, there's countless other related and tangental inovations others are discovering.
 
chapter 2 said:
"It'll be out of the solar system, actually, Dad," the girl said with a somewhat amused smile. "I accidentally got it set for two g of acceleration and it would do that until it ran out of power, which would take..." She looked thoughtful. "About two days."
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That adds up to about 11 times the speed of light I think, if it always accelerate in the same direction. How would that work from a relativity / physics PoV?
 
BadTiming said:
That adds up to about 11 times the speed of light I think, if it always accelerate in the same direction. How would that work from a relativity / physics PoV?
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Unless it's generating some effect to sidestep the light barrier, its not going FTL, just 'Large Hadron Collider' fast. Remember, when approaching light speed it takes exponentially more energy to accelerate.
 
Sandy River DL said:
Unless it's generating some effect to sidestep the light barrier, its not going FTL, just 'Large Hadron Collider' fast. Remember, when approaching light speed it takes exponentially more energy to accelerate.
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By our understanding of physics, yes, but:
Still chapter 2 said:
"This completely rewrites at least forty percent of accepted physics, opens up a number of fields previously thought impossible, and implies a number of quite unusual things about the nature of the universe itself," the man added, still in that odd tone.
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So assuming that FTL is impossibe with this tech is a bit of a fetch.
 
Aelfhe1m said:
Yes, if accelerating using Newtonian physics at 1g then 1yr ≈ 1c but if it's relativistic then after a year you only hit about 72% c, 731 days to 90% c, 1077 days to reach 95% c, 1554 days to 97.5% c etc.
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Math. The final frontier!
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Bleh, I thought I was done with this after College, but of course I'm not....
 
Xerres said:
So C is 300000 m/s and assuming no relativistic effects(I know there would be just an example) and assuming objects could travel faster then light. Based on these assumptions and acceleration being constant after 24hrs V .~1700000m/s 5-6 times C

now if we apply that with relativistic effects ect and some back of the envelope calculations it would be traveling like 99.99% C after 2 days assuming constant acceleration
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Uh, your value for c is off by three orders of magnitude there. Metres and kilometres are not the same.
 
Im a brokentaco said:
does this get updated twice a month or just random? Loved it so far so keep up the great work :D
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Every one of this author's works are completely random updates, no set schedule.

Some times we get 100k words in a month and sometimes he just shitposts along with the rest of us, because he is exhausted or busy with his sometimes overly demanding job.

Watch his threads and hope. Usually, a story post is over 6k.
 
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