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    If I want nostalgia for Keep on the borderlands, I just dig out the original. It even smells familiar. I also had the 25th anniversary...
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    With the traveller Starter Pack at coming with Traveller Explorers Edition, Death station and Stranded PDFs all for free this represents...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Setting Size.
    Sadly my most recent group seemed to want me to tell them a story, tell them how to perform their role in the story and then go in...
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    swordtart reacted to Vormaerin's post in the thread Setting Size with Like Like.
    Yeah, that's very much not how I run. The more the players want to exert control of events, the happier I am. Not because they...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Setting Size.
    I limited myself to a single subsector (District 268). Even detailing the main world sufficiently to even cover my player groups needs...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Double Occupancy.
    I took privately owned to mean ships that are owned by private individuals and therefore not subject to public usage legislation. This...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.
    Ok as we have the power for the life support of the ISS, lets see how much power if required to move it at 1G. Assuming 14 days of...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.
    Good we agree. We can both those and we can get rid of waste heat by either method. Now it just a question of amounts. I am still loath...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.
    No you are quite correct. I was talking cobblers. Apologies, thermodynamics was 39 years ago :(
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    swordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.
    Agreed but conversion of matter to energy still does not require matter to pass the boundary so it is a still a thermodynamically closed...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.
    The constraints still exist. Thermodynamic equilibrium. We agree it is radiating. If it is radiating then it is not an isolated system...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.
    Hmm, I had assumed it was thermal. If it is gravitic then you need a densitometer. That means TL 12 sensors at MCr4.3 minimum and the...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.
    But you recognise I hope that not every sentence on a structured argument needs to be self contained because otherwise we will reach...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.
    If you are going to take every statement I make out of context and agree in one place but then ignore that in the next line of your...
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    swordtart replied to the thread Detecting Weapons' Fire.
    Radiators. But not necessarily in all directions. I am not sure what difference being on earth will make. Reflectors get hot on earth...
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