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    Traveller, TAS, and AI

    How many people buy games because of the art? Not me. I’d rather have written content - accepting I may be odd in not appreciating the art. I bought the latest D&D Players Handbook for the content and find the art an unwelcome distraction
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    Inbound System Comms

    This ^^^
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    Inbound System Comms

    Doesn't the conversation in this thread render 5FW impossible...?
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    Looking for a few players in GMT-0/GMT+1

    Would be helpful to know proposed days / times
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    Inbound System Comms

    Nice edit after your original rude and ignorant original response, which neatly illustrates how difficult detection at range is, as opposed to your earlier posts within this thread.
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    Inbound System Comms

    Facile answer and you should do better than be rude and ignorant To passively scan out to the minimum orbit of Pluto assuming a beam width of 0.1 degrees results in an angular distance of ~7.5M km at Pluto. Meaning an object can be anywhere within the 7.5M km arc, the calculation does not...
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    Inbound System Comms

    Ah but you haven’t answered the question asked with the reasonable constraints proposed. What conclusion should I draw?
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    Inbound System Comms

    I’m fascinated by your assertion @MarcusIII and I’d like to understand the physics behind your calculations For simplicity sake, let’s limit the star system to Sol, limit the whole sky scan to the minimum orbit of Pluto and further assume we are observing only. How long would the full sky scan...
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    Inbound System Comms

    Earth diameter is just under 8000 miles therefore 100 diameters is 800,000 miles, around 3x the distance to the moon. Around1% of the distance to Mars which is 55M miles at closest approach
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    Pioneer - Get Ready for Launch!

    That's where the dog comes in handy...
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    Inbound System Comms

    I refer to RADAR because that's what I know in the real world, and the physics translate to space games in general The Geiger counter analog is useful - the source is somewhere "out there" and the detector could be directionally sensitive. However, nothing moves faster than the speed of light...
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    Inbound System Comms

    Round trip RADAR return time for 1 nautical mile is 12.35 microseconds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_mile Radiated power requirements square to double the range within atmosphere, I don’t have the physics for vacuum. Antenna rotation speed is also a factor, antenna have a beam width...
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    Inbound System Comms

    I’m trying to not let the physics get in the way of a good story :) Thanks for all the contributions to this thread, I am enjoying the conversation
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    Inbound System Comms

    Once in a place far, far away (Falkland Islands) I was on duty and bored. I looked at the RADAR screen and saw a blip a long way off. So I zoomed in on the blip and measured the trace. Turns out the plot extractor (the software which determined whether a RADAR return was noise or real) expanded...
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    Inbound System Comms

    @MarcusIII - would you please evidence your assertions? I’m curious and not convinced by your comments
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