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Banned both to clean the thread.

No I mean that either a reader, basing on either known facts from real life taken as a part of setting (usually), or on accurately described laws of the written universe given to him as an exposition (but not every time at the last moment when some character needs to redefine them on purpose, can evaluate, make conclusion and get predictable reproducable results which would describe the events happening in this book (or movie, if you prefer) at least not less accurately than the characters do the same. The more there axiomatic, dogmatic, arbitrary expositions or the lesser is the part of the events which those research and predictions can describe without handwaving from the characters, the lesser is applicable "scientific". Of course, this is is about the external, "physical" part of the happening, not about psychological, emotional and other questions which will be described in exposition manner in any case, unless the author has an aim to accurately research the psychology from formal point of view, rather than use it as a tool to effect the emotional sphere of the reader. (Feel free to add "hereby" and "therefore" on you own). Say, Jules Verne described the age where steam and electricity is a miracle, and he tried to base on known facts from real life, he accurately studied geographical maps, the industrial plants and so on. From modern pov probably we could say that 50% of his books is a graphomany with walls of numbers and geographical wiki quotes (from time to time erroneus). While Chronicles of Amber introduces new facts without any background, just on author's wish. Harry Potter's magic works just on handwaving. Rather than magic, say, in Ultima 8 or several other games where you can make experiments and sometimes discover new spells basing on your knowledge (rudimentally, of course, but that's much more than in absolute majority of other settings). Quantum mechanics is a part of our rl settings. Scientific method is absolutely not limited with the physical laws of our real world, it's an abstract logical construction applicable to any structurized information. In early XIX there was no idea about quantum mechanics. But the science was. If they weren't discovereed quantum mechanics or if t were erroneus idea, nothing would happen with the science itself, just only theory less. Yes, but you can't research and predict anything. You don' have the book, that book is just mentioned when the author needs to handwave something again. They just give you new spells , possibly most stupid ones I ever met, full degradation compared to Ultima, Kniaz or so, just say two Latinized words and wave with a wand, while, say, Ultima 8 Pagan (part of Ultima setting) has a whole bunch of tables of sigils, ingredients and words, at least three intersecting pantheons with explained place of each of deities, 4 (3 available) ways of magic, looking and working absolutely diferent, and so on. Arcanum has something like that but in light version. You can even experiment with this and sometimes make spells working from very partial starting information. Compared to this Hogwartz looks like an asylum for complete morons hunting cockroaches with a hammer. So, in HP you can get dogmatically/axiomatically every new fact. That's not what we call a science.

That's certainly. Though

If you can understand all these words and predict your experiment results, then this is a sci-fi setting for you. If you cast this like a Verbal Waterfall spell without understanding, in hope to discourage somebody, then this is a fantasy setting for you.

How many times did SpaceX reuse not just land the Falcon stages?

Private schools. (at least I saw that in cinema)

A thousand years later somebody will be trying to understand what is this red metallic craft with without wheels. Only shreds of a spacesuit on the front seat remain from the pilot.

If it's a tower, it is possible to broom the storeys one per week from top to down. Then repeat.

Series

It would be enough hard as the mentioned user is last seen in 2012.

delta function. Nothing remains except zero.

Granted. 170986 of them flood the game thread and it doesn't open. Let your people go.

The revived hill rebels against its creator. Self-made hill.

ΘεΞπ Beginner

44. Two 22 for the price of one.

Granted. You get the inert cake made of helium. Feel free to eat it. I wish for one more day till tomorrow.

e2-e4 Just joking! (call=summon, why not)

I meant more or less exponential dependency of protection as a function of thickness, not particular coefficient values themselves. As if I not agreed. Even more, while a Martian base/colony/whatever could be a home for several years (just because it's too far and expensive to reach), a lunar habitat probably would be a hostel for several weeks or months. But it would be nice to treat the lunar personnel as civilians rather than expendables, so they deserve nice and safe cottages to spend those months. And not only on the Moon. On everything solid in Solar System except Venus. And btw, now about Venusian towns... Let me mention @p1t1o and my conversation about them.

Fake numbers

Granted. Your python is good. But all your friends are afraid of reptiles. I wish to turn this sheet of paper.

I hide in a wardrobe and start wailing. Nobody dares to look in.

In the same degree like irl. If you understand how this works, there is no fantastic in it for you. If you don't - then "enough developed science looks like magic".

And if the whole town is in fact a, say, wide 4-storey building with two lower storeys technical and two upper storeys living (like 2-storey appartaments: ground floor - hall, kitchen, patio; and minus one floor - dormitories), then the vault can be just a room in the lowest technical storey, between storehouses and life support equipment. Also that additional 2 meters can be a pillow under patio. Then 3 storey is enough. P.S. Patio are not a luxury. Don't forget that all of them are either inside a room, or inside a spacesuit. No UV. So, either patio, or solarium. The former is better. P.P.S. I would suggest to make the ground floor as trapezoid in section (for strength purposes). Then the patio will be like an overturned trapezoid: glass ceiling wider than floor. This will extend the angle from which the Sun is visible and gives UV.

Muons hardly have a meaning there. But if a magic setting were scientific, you could exclaim: "What does this stupid Dumbledore do. The magic doesn't work that way. He would put three spoons of the frog blood, because..." — not because you've read a recipe, but because you have alculated this yourself... ...and a page later Dumbledore should exclaim: "What a stupid I am. I need three spoons of frog blood, wasn't that obvious!" So, in a scientific setting you could make your own researches and predictions.