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i think you end up getting to a point where even smaller ships are incapable of evading the warp missile (as described). i think you would be better off putting a few limits on the missiles. perhaps they require their host ship's sensors and computers to plot the relativistic targeting solution in near real time, effectively "painting the target". light delay between the launching ship and the missile itself would then be a factor to consider. so evading the missile would involve putting distance between you and the ship to increase the sensor lag. alternatively you can go for the ship and try to take it out first so its missile doesn't know what to do with itself. even if the missile has its own guidance suite, distance between the target and the missile is going to have light delay. so depending on distance you have a bit of a blind spot in which to maneuver without the warhead knowing what you are doing. employing some deception tactics and decoy tech, like ecm or sensor spoofing or jamming. either blind it or make the missile think you warped off in one direction while you go the other way. this might also work with the previous scenario, where having a second set of sensors, even considering the light delay involved, is essential for combat. possibly add things like sensor buoys and probes and make the battle more about maximizing your detection capabilities. perhaps they can only make a certain number of jumps, say they only have a certain amount of antimatter on board, for both the drive and the warhead. if you burn it all in jumps, or in sublight, you reduce its yield until you just have a kinetic impactor (which may still be sufficient to destroy/disable the target). however at that point you can no longer make course corrections. nerf your op weapon.

seafood is good, when its fresh. it i significantly less good when its been one ice too long, and i wouldnt eat anything off of a factory trawler (idk if its a good idea to destroy the ocean over something as lame as a filet'o'fish sandwich).

thing is if you think you're not eating bugs, you're wrong. same goes for rat droppings. food production is not as clean and controlled as you think it is.

various meat jerky.

unfortunately this kind of thing happens enough that songs have been written about it.

im the oddball who uses both pronunciations interchangeably because i aint got time for these shenanigans. it also confuses the living hell out of my enemies.

id figure to guess that its about the same distance from las vegas to the nevada test site.

seems you would want negative pressure ventilation in the lavatory. negative relative to the inside of the station, not the outside, that would be rather hard.

got the 5800x in the mail. had enough bitcoin to order a mobo. went with this one, the gigabyte board i was looking at didnt have a front panel usb-c connector and the asus didnt have enough usb ports (i need lots for my ch controllers) . still need ram and a new psu. i have several old psu's and i might be able to use them fitment permitting. the case is designed with sfx supplies in mind, but it came with an atx bracket. but i eventually want to get this supply since the 600w version has been solid for several years now. should be enough for a middle tier next gen card. will try to get that in october or whenever we get our pfds this year (they were early last year due to covid), im toying with the idea of going red this time (dont like nvidia's policy of artificially throttling hashrates and can take advantage of resizable bar this way as well). its going to take about 50 days of mining to get a 32 gig kit (barring any spikes/dips in the price), which i will pick out when i have the funds.

theres that. though there is the possibility of actively cooled landing pads which can handle some pretty nasty thrust. there are a few situations that might warrant landing even with large ships. maintenance and scrapping for example or disgorging large amounts of cargo from a large freighter. i imagine all these would be done at low gravity depots (say the moon for example). delivery to a ring station or even to a freight yard orbit might also be options. would be very situational. say you are delivering freight to an outpost without a lot of infrastructure. say they dont have any orbital infrastructure at all. if you are just dropping off, orbital drop pods would probibly be adequate. but if you also had to bring freight up the well, then a lot of back and fourth flights with a few onboard shuttles would take an eternity and would end up using almost as much fuel if not more (you need to get your shuttles back up for the next load with exports in tow, multiple times). a destination with more infrastructure might just have a terminal in orbit for that kind of thing.

landing large space craft really doesn't make a lot of sense.

fixed. you could probibly use the stuff as rocket fuel.

i thought it was a pylon building simulator.

i still use 3dsmax for cad work. solid meshing tools is all you need, for anything. finite element analysis is for wussies.

somone call? i didnt do it.

as far as surface scans are concerned. you would have to get down there with a drill rig to know for sure. spectroscopy and surface samples can only go so far. its like you got a piece of aluminum foil on a bowl of bean dip, and then assume that the whole thing is made out of aluminum and contains no bean dip. its your loss because i make one hell of a bean dip.

i don't think ive ever been disappointed by a jurassic park movie. depends on which bond, i find modern bond movies to be somewhat lacking. but the sean connery era, hells yea.

somewhere on an alien planet, large piles of accumulating socks are causing an environmental crisis for the locals.

i tend to view our inability to colonize planets as an engineering problem. every ball of dirt in the solar system no doubt has stuff you can use. you might have to bring in some stuff from elsewhere. anything with a weak gravity well is fair game. enough to live on. but low enough to make the cost of launching spacecraft extremely cheap. stronger wells for post infrastructure. hellpits like venus for extreme desperation.

other, definitely other. alien franchise. terminator franchise. any movies about the vietnam war. mad max the godfather dirty harry death wish even numbered star trek movies up to and including first contact george romero zombie films coffin joe movies 2001/2010 and of course the planet of the apes (not the remakes).

the a-10 usually wins because BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT. while i think the facebook quacks and snake oil salesmen are worse than the virus, my opinions of health care proper are not much better.

you could use those to heat an entire house with one of those. i decommissioned mine a few years ago, i needed some heat pipes for a project, and the mobo was just plastered with them. and it was behind a 3rd gen i5, and 3rd 4th and 8th gen i7s. also i ordered an 5800x, though im still mad at elon for tanking the price of bitcoin, its gonna be awhile before i get a mobo for this thing. been awhile since i used team red, back in the athlon 64 days.

really depends on if the ship is a one off or if there is a fleet of them and how many space ports there are in the solar system with a nuclear reprocessor. even a spent fuel rod is valuable, especially in space. its something you can reprocess and are therefore a commodity you can trade for things like remass or air or whatever currency you may be using.

lego is quickly becoming minecraft for boomers. i used to play with the space sets until about the mid 90s when i got into technic. i keep them around in case i want to prototype a robot or some other kind of machine.

i got my ncase m1 and i have to say this thing is just beautiful. its almost a mortal sin to install computer bits into it. so far my plan was get the 5800x with my remaining funds and the mobo with bitcoin. unfortunately thanks to a certain rocket man who will not be named, the value of btc has been dropping steadily over the past several days. so barring another spike or a few more weeks of mining, i cant buy the mobo just yet. im also thinking about going with the 11700k instead. seems to have better benchmarks than the 5800x and is a bit cheaper. unfortunately the same cannot be said for the mobos for 11th gen (unless you want an asrock), and so im looking at needing another hundred bucks if i go that route.