Well, yes. "The lighter the mass, the higher the speed of light". And isn't that lucky? Consider if it was the other way?
Shepard Quest Mk V, Base of Operations (ME/MCU)
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I wonder if the energy of mass is conserved. As Yog points out it's pretty obvious that kinetic energy is not conserved but I could see the energy of rest mass been conserved.
E = mc^2
If E is constant then decreasing m, which is what Mass Effect fields do, would result in the speed of light increasing by the (square) root of the mass division factor.
So reducing the ship to 1/4 it's mass would double the speed of light.
It's an interesting possiblity, yes. I think in this quest it's assumed that mass effect does violate conservation of energy and that you have a linear dependence of c from mass effect power (i.e. for M_in=M_Out/k you have c_in=k*c_out). It could be an interesting exercise to try and think of how such a dependence would play out, though.
ThatGazzer
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Shepard Quest.
The only quest where a degree in physics is required to participate in half the discussion.
The only quest where a degree in physics is required to participate in half the discussion.
Now I wonder what it would have looked like if people chose the flying brick, or Alex Mercer.
Leingod
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Tell me about it. I'm a freaking history major who averages B-C grades in math and science classes (with the exception of biology and sometimes chemistry). And not the complicated stuff either, just general ed. Kind of sucks to actually be interested in the quest and completely incapable of meaningfully contributing, since 90% of the discussion is physics and number-crunching.
Oh it's hardly 90% physics and number-crunching. There's also accounting, statistics (I notice someone did a 95% confidence interval on our research die rolls; does that mean someone has a formula on calculating the variance of an xd10 die roll?), business administration, urban planning, politics.... I'm just waiting for Esbilon to give us a Liara interlude, so we can add xenoarchaeology to the list. 
You could make a kickass logo for paragon industries? It would probably count as an omake (maybe, hopefully).
Emizaquel
What is a self?
I could post a Python script for that if you guys want... though I would need some better parameters for what you guys want.
I also wonder if we could research accretion disks as a side project, they are the most efficient natural process of converting matter into energy ~40% of the mass gets converted.
I also wonder if we could research accretion disks as a side project, they are the most efficient natural process of converting matter into energy ~40% of the mass gets converted.
Emizaquel
What is a self?
Heres an old script I use for dice rolls
It gives you a total at the end cuz it was originally made to calc total damage for chars with multiple hits per turn. easy enough to get rid of tho
Code:
from random import randrange
side = 0
additive = 0
num = 0
out = 0
tot = 0
total = 0
c = 10
while(c>0):
total = 0
side = input("How Many sides? : ")
num = input("How may dice? : ")
additive = input("Are there any modifiers? : ")
if(num < 1):
print "Error : Number of dice too low"
elif(side < 1):
print "Error : Number of sides too low"
else:
while(num>0):
out = randrange(1,side)
tot = out+additive
print tot
total = total+tot
num = num-1
print totalIt gives you a total at the end cuz it was originally made to calc total damage for chars with multiple hits per turn. easy enough to get rid of tho
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I did, and I need to get back to it, as it doesn't handle overflow correctly (it uses the previous set of rules for it). I also need to add some features to it and, at some point, transfer it from brute force (real dice rolling) to using formulas to calculate probabilities analytically and write dice distribution optimization algorithm (which would find the optimal distribution of dice to give us the highest probabilities across the board).
Emizaquel
What is a self?
Actually I don't think that it is with the science in the game. If you figure out how the Mass relays avoid all the interstellar crap in between each other it might be possible, however rapid transport pads that use a overpowered version of the biotic charge attack could be effective for orbital insertion, short range manoeuvring (Saren at the end of ME 1), and transport within a building or ship. We may be able to finally create an effective replacement for the citadel elevators!!!!
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You mean stairs? People with walkers could go up those faster.
Okay, now that we're getting back into the game, I'd like to re-introduce my AI-first research proposal. For reference, my proposal is in the tech sheet with everyone else's, and my reasoning is quoted below.
Indeed. QECs are rather critical and take time to actually implement on the wide scale. As to AIs... I would rather first secure our political capital with Eternal Youth (Nobel Peace and Medicine prizes, quite possibly sainthood, lots of governmental medals and such), and then delve into deeply controversial and politically dangerous field.
QECs are only relevant once we start flying missions in our new super-frigates; for reliable encryption between our labs and manufacturing facilities we can rely on bulk-transported one-time pads. Heck, since we're in the business of building and researching military hardware those bulk transports can probably have military escorts! QECs are useful because they hide the source and destination points, which we don't care about because our facility locations are static and easy to find, and because they reduce/eliminate supply lines to outrigger facilities and undercover outposts, which we also don't care about because we don't have those.
I'd argue that Eternal Youth is at least as likely to make us more controversial to the galactic community as it is to make everyone love us, but the bigger argument in favor of AI first is that we lose nothing by starting negotiations early. We start filing petitions in 2174-Q2, when we have nothing better to do as internally we are focusing on Flawless Blackboxing anyway, and continue to update our petitions as our other wonder products come out. If you think Eternal Youth will help our case, and we haven't already been approved by the end of 2174-Q2? Fine; we can slot that in for 2174-Q3, while we deploy Perfect Human/Alien to the galaxy as a way to boost our petition (and because it's a moral imperative that we get that out ASAP), and delay the Cabira for another quarter (debuts 2175-Q4 instead of Q3, with the stealth version appearing in 2176-Q1). We can then, if there is still resistance to our AI research petition, deploy Eternal Youth galaxy-wide in 2174-Q4, and start in on teching up to the Cabira in the meantime.
The thing about Eternal Youth as a negotiating tactic is that most of you are proposing we target Eternal Youth at the Alliance market only to start, and that's not going to help us deal with Council resistance; in fact it'll make it worse. I'm not as worried about Alliance resistance to AI research, as no one on the Alliance is likely to have the same resistance to AIs as the Turians and Asari, since the humans have yet to have any conflicts against the Geth. This is all beside the point that it's rather morally repugnant to limit Eternal Youth to human-only; if anything the Salarians need it more than we do, given their lifespans as of canon are roughly one quarter of humanity's.
I'd argue that Eternal Youth is at least as likely to make us more controversial to the galactic community as it is to make everyone love us, but the bigger argument in favor of AI first is that we lose nothing by starting negotiations early. We start filing petitions in 2174-Q2, when we have nothing better to do as internally we are focusing on Flawless Blackboxing anyway, and continue to update our petitions as our other wonder products come out. If you think Eternal Youth will help our case, and we haven't already been approved by the end of 2174-Q2? Fine; we can slot that in for 2174-Q3, while we deploy Perfect Human/Alien to the galaxy as a way to boost our petition (and because it's a moral imperative that we get that out ASAP), and delay the Cabira for another quarter (debuts 2175-Q4 instead of Q3, with the stealth version appearing in 2176-Q1). We can then, if there is still resistance to our AI research petition, deploy Eternal Youth galaxy-wide in 2174-Q4, and start in on teching up to the Cabira in the meantime.
The thing about Eternal Youth as a negotiating tactic is that most of you are proposing we target Eternal Youth at the Alliance market only to start, and that's not going to help us deal with Council resistance; in fact it'll make it worse. I'm not as worried about Alliance resistance to AI research, as no one on the Alliance is likely to have the same resistance to AIs as the Turians and Asari, since the humans have yet to have any conflicts against the Geth. This is all beside the point that it's rather morally repugnant to limit Eternal Youth to human-only; if anything the Salarians need it more than we do, given their lifespans as of canon are roughly one quarter of humanity's.
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Van Ropen
Angry, angry about elves.
Eternal Youth is to forestall any Alliance complaints about researching Advanced Xenobiology and giving things like Peak Human to the aliens.
That said, you're wrong - I thought the same thing, but Esbilon confirmed:
Even as Salarian government freaks the fuck out, I daresay a fair few of the common Salarians are going to consider Shepard the fucking Omnissiah.
Even releasing it as human-only first doesn't matter, when we have already demonstrated the willingness to extend our biotech to alien races as with Peak Human.
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