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RThe reaction drive can be a fusion rocket without the fusion power plant yet being invented, the power plant is still fifty years...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Near Future Traveller.It's just a titanium steel alloy. A real world thing mostly used for aircraft and other applications where strength and low weight are...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.We had a similar thing here in Australia. Received Pronunciation was used by radio and television presenters well into the 1980's before...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Enhanced Docking Clamps.Fair.
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RI posted this in the other thread, but here are the standard cargo container sizes. A 10-ton airlock would handle them all with space...
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Rrinku replied to the thread An Alternate Take On Fabrication Rules.I'd leave credit values out of it almost totally. Just "X amount of input, X/n amount of output" for each stage. If you're on-selling at...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.And there are reasons for that. But audio and video recordings, once common, TEND to anchor it a lot. Or at least for the accents...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Enhanced Docking Clamps.Standardisation would seem to be the no-brainer to me too. Standard sizes of cargo bay hatches, that can mate with a same sized one for...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.Yeah. If you have two hatches mated, they basically form a rudimentary airlock and you can depressurise the room on your ship to deal...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Minor Races incl. Humans.It's unlikely that a truly comprehensive manifest could or should be done. Potentially the Ancients seeded some version of humans...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.At the very least, since Galanglic usually uses Vilani characters outside the Solomani sphere, it would be a bit like English written...
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It is called TOO short a time to evaluate such things. The longest stay was just over 3 days. Not long enough to see long term effects... -
Rrinku replied to the thread Feeding a High Population, Non-Agricultural world.Not to mention you'd have trouble distinguishing between five days of microgravity prior to and after the time spent under lunar...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Near Future Traveller.Original version of The Martian.
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Rrinku replied to the thread Near Future Traveller.Ironically, the most convincing VSF space travel story is probably H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon... and that uses a version of...