Shepard Quest Mk V, Base of Operations (ME/MCU)
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Hm, SLA Industries, perhaps? That's where the Shaktar are from, I think.
Not sure about the Webcomic, though. The only ones I know that might be fitting are Schlock Mercenary and Girl Genius, but there isn't anything I can see in the text that immediately makes me think of it as a reference, much less identify where it's from.
It is inspired by Schlock, but not what I was thinking about. The reference I had in mind is also a Schlock reference though.
Correct!
The Big Picture (capitalized and repeated) was the reference in the previous update.
A new component is often the only revolutionary thing (and therefore the only patentable thing) about about a new invention.
Hm... is the first paragraph under Basic Genemodding perhaps the Schlock Reference? Maybe related to Dr. Edward Bunniguns' birth?
Nope. It's not really subtle at all.
Arc reactors would be covered by a whole host of patents, protecting both technology and principles behind it, I think.
Obviously it is, or we'd have found it already.
Maybe so but we want to patent in such a way that gives us maximum protection for the least amount of hassle (I.e. production tie ups and costing restrictions).
Don't know much about the patents on technological principles just a few bits from my grandfather who once did technical drafts for patents.
Which is why the patents need to be as broad as possible. Otherwise the competition would just change some minute detail and patent the analogue as their own. That's what patenting principles is for.
I do not find patent law fun. For this reason, we're using some abstracted rules that try to capture the essential part of what the law tries to do.
In this case, that means that if you want protection from other people making arc reactors, you've got to tell the Citadel bureaucracy how it works. I'm not going to screw you over on minutiae regardless of which way you go on this.
In this case, that means that if you want protection from other people making arc reactors, you've got to tell the Citadel bureaucracy how it works. I'm not going to screw you over on minutiae regardless of which way you go on this.
Wait; is perhaps Revy's complains about the laser she bought lacking a "powering up sound", and contemplating that she could always add something to her own product later, the Schlock-reference? About Sgt. Schlock's plasma cannon and it's "OMMMMMINOUS HUMMMMMM"?
So, is that a "Yes" or a "No"?
I'd think the song was a hint, but that's another 'no'.
It seems my writing is so stock full of pop culture references that I need to be more specific when I call on you to identify specific ones.
BTW, for the record: +50 Research points for identifying SLA Industries.
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This made me laugh way more than it should have.
On the fusion reactor density issue: It's unlikely in the extreme that ME fusion reactors are based on the same magnetic confinement technology as ITER. I'm no expert, granted, but it seems like inertial confinement schemes are a lot more compact, especially given the sort of shenanigans you can get up to with mass effect fields.
Also guys whining about the SA being the Citadel's bitch? Remember Ascension? The Citadel found out that Humanity was working on AI and threatened to impose crippling sanctions. The Human ambassador said fuck that, and the Council backed down because a war with Humanity would have been too costly. And this was vanilla-no-Sheppard-crazy-space-magic Humanity. Humanity is a big fucking fish. (I'm talking to you @Carrnage and @Mochinator.)
Song didn't play for me for some reason; just said something about an error.
That, and in some cases it can just be difficult to pic out, like "Big Picture" for SLA Industries, because Big Picture is also a fairly common phrase in politics and whatnot.
Any hints, perhaps?
Thanks! Put them into Peak Human, please.
The song was "Looking for love in all the wrong places."
The segment about Brian and Revy training with Mom-Shepard, then?
If that isn't it, I give up.
Oh, one thing I just noticed, though; the title of the recent update say 2171, but it should be 2173.
More nopes. And yes, it should.
...Wut?
Oh, sure. If you only take into account the reaction chamber itself. If you take the full installation, however. Now, sure, ok, with mass effect you could do graviational confinement probably, which might be far more compact. Still, there's a problem of steady state operation (inertial confinement isn't steady state, it's impulse based), but that's engineering. The point, however, is that no, inertial confinement is not more compact. Just look at NIF.
Mochinator
Protect the weak against the evil strong.
Hey asshat. This is humanity in the past.
Years before Ascension, only a few years since humanity met the Citadel. Believing that Humanity has the power and authority to make threats to the Citadel without anything is ridiculous.
Use your brains, Humanity as of now is still a minor fish just from the time period and the fact that they have less resources to call on.
His handle is Crazy Tom, not "asshat."
Heated debates are fine, swearing is fine, calling people's arguments crap is fine, name calling is not fine.
EDIT: Suggesting that people do not use their brains is not fine either.
Could they be using something closer to a fusor for fusion? It's possible that because of cheaper CNT along with eezo can potentially make such 'backyard shed' fusion chambers actually have a net gain...