Nuke

so its a wing commander prequel?

i think a big problem with magboots is that the materials they stick to tend to be heavy and not suitable for spacecraft construction. magnets can stick to aluminum if they are spinning though, but that requires a more complicated and power hungry boot.

i think of it more as swimming in air. astronauts seem to have some techniques for controlling their orientation in the station. in vacuum you need thrusters or gyros like any other spacecraft. however i think they make do with whatever handholds and footholds exist on the outside since nobody really uses an mmu anymore.

the day youtube forces ads is the day i stop watching youtube. with ublock under firefox, there are no ads. there is also the bing trick, where if you search for specific videos on bing, you can watch them without ads. but were not there yet.

spacex knows how to antenna. the starlink dishes alone are evidence of that. they just need to make it stronger.

you cant put antennas behind armor though. position of said antennas are also critical because they set up the positional relationship between the booster and the tower. if the antenna is bent a few feet away from where its supposed to be, then the mechazilla arms will miss by that much. i assume its built like a cnc machine. anyone who owns a 3d printer knows what happens when something nudges the print bed mid print.

cold water always worked for me.

big orbital proton collectors?

i attribute it to youth really. when you are young they constantly try to sell you on the utopian concepts and as you age you realize that its all just a pipe dream. i once thought that computers in everyone's home would solve all the problems, but it made more problems, and those problems got worse when the computers started fitting in your pocket and everything is always connected. im using technology as an example rather than something politically charged, so use your imagination. every solution to every problem is a can of worms and will bring new problems. eventually you realize that there are no solutions, only tradeoffs and you turn your attention away from end all solutions and start looking at how to get the most bang for your buck.

rockets are cheaper than thousands of miles of fiber.

im seeing starlinks pop up like daisies here. granted there is difficulty running fiber through glaciers and tundra (we cant even build 50 miles of road to connect our capital to the alcan) and the distances make that very unprofitable. ground based infrastructure is going to be astronomically expensive and destructive to the environment. people of an urban mindset dont really understand the impact starlink has when you can just get good internet from the wall/wifi/cell for a small fee. now imagine having to pay 10x as much, and being really slow and flakey on top of that. this is exactly the market star link was going for.

people ask how its possible to do space math without computers, but it makes a lot more sense when you realize that people in the duniverse are all on uppers that make you see the future. so you can get answers pretty quick.

i cant wait for the ai takeover and subsequent butlerian jihad. then we can be human again.

so what happened to the banana?

banana is swaying! shake your banana.