Recent content by Blix

I would need an exact cite for that. Track down the exact quote (and where it is from) and I may believe there is some validity to the claim.

More meaningless armwaving again. Since you do not wish to discuss or think about this, I believe there is no point in continuing the discussion.

Pointing in which direction? Who is processing the data? Who would put up the expense of setting up and running the arrays? (after all this is a high damage, low risk scenario. I don't think we have even a hundred people on Earth who are actively looking for near-earth asteroids that could hit...

I am talking about asteroids that are a few tens of metres across though - that is all you need for a near-c rock (in fact, anything much larger would probably fragment under acceleration, since larger ones are rubble piles more often than not). Amateurs don't discover those. Even the big...

What is the "appropriate sensor tech"? How do they work? What are these "TL appropriate defenses"? It is only "simple" if the complexities are brushed under the carpet. Though further discussion should probably be taken to another thread really.

He said something like "hang on, travellers", and some of the traveller fanbase wet themselves and took it to mean that Joss Whedon played Traveller. Problem is, there is no evidence for that at all. Any deliberate connection between Firefly and Traveller is entirely imagined and assumed by...

That has happened several times in the past. Probably more times than we know ;). Another example of "infinite sensors" was raised in one of the other threads here (I think), when someone mentioned that a black globe could be detected by looking for a 'hole' in the CMB (Cosmic Microwave...

Why do you think that ship-mounted densitometers would have infinite range and sensitivity? A lot of people seem to think that any ship sensors have that, actually. They won't. There are limits to resolution and useful detection range, and that will not change in the "far future". Actually, we...

That is a ridiculous excuse. Jame's post contained the word "heretical" and then you and DFW decided to take off on a Monty Python bender based on that. Do we have to endure that kind of derailment every time someone mentions any word from a monty python film now? Or do you think you could...

Don't get me wrong, I think deleting the threads is "dickish" behavior too. But I think he's justified to be annoyed by people who insist on derailing them. There is a board here devoted to off-topic rambling: http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=74 I suggest you go there...

Assuming you detect it in time. Heck, fire up the drive in the outer system, have it accelerate, turn the drive and power plant off. Now you have a cold rock/spaceship coming in a several thousand km/s, completely undetectable. How do you propose to detect that to fire your defence missiles...

Calling people "whiners" because they get in the way of your self-centered "fun" is very much "being a dick". Since there's evidently no moderation on this board, the only way things are going to stay sane around here is if people think about that before they post. Otherwise, this place will...

Here's some sage advice for you. Everyone here should take it to heart.

I predict thread deletion by the OP, and I cannot really blame him. While that would be unconstructive, the fault is not entirely his - some individuals seem to be deliberately derailing his threads. I would request that everyone involved grows up. S666 does not need to delete threads, and...

According to the travel time table in the MGT corebook, a ship travelling at 3g (and assuming acceleration-turnaround-deceleration) to a destination a billion km away would reach a maximum velocity of about 4800 km/s at the midpoint of its trip (after which it would turnaround and decelerate)...