Mikki

Since this thread has become somewhat unpopular for many parkinglot users i came to the conclusion to execute aswell a "no-outdoor parking" policy. Installing autocannons video surveillance around my property gave me enough confidence to guess that Roscosmos will return the unstranded astronauts in due time. (Driving away... very slow...)

Some people are heavily overqualified for this life, he certainly is one.

I think i get the ... joke. Sniffing for isotopes is head on advanced tech i really wonder how long it has been done by the ... supplier.

...If i was a sci-fi writer (which i`m not for any god`s sake huh), i`d convince the reader that humans discovered by chance how to manipulate the higgs field (tapping in on dark energy eh ), enabling large vessels with large enough fusion reactors to literally bypass c in any direction and speed. After realizing that previous assumed paradoxes regarding inevitable timetravel and issues with causality don`t happen as expected, things... get nuts. *insert any plot of your liking* At some point humans meet some aliens with pretty insane techlevel and get lectured from said aliens with the fact that free will is a myth and the future allready happened. Asked about their goals the aliens just mention that tapping in on dark energy just increases the amount of it and accelerates the expansion of the universe and they admit that they have literally caused the foreseeable demise of all things together with some other species they met themself (and exterminated casually) along the way. So, the aliens ask the humans to give up on the nice tech, stop exploration and instead seek for ways to halt the apocalypse. Clearly the humans disagree and plan to annihilate the whole species, convinced the aliens just gaslight the humans into submission. *Huge interstellar war erupts*.

Can someone elaborate to me if the chinese could dock to the ISS ? Is it the same standard as soyuz? How many dockingports are there? I can count four. Am i stupid?

I am sure a fan of sci-fi (see for above mentioned reasons), and i can look over questionable plot devices if the plot itself carrys a certain quality for the reader or viewer. What i cannot take for sci-fi are SW or Strek and alikes, which are merely fantasy in my eyes, mirroring certain historic events like the age of exploration or some 20th century politics and their conflicts in another environment. "Making things up" is literally the essence of sci-fi writing or cinema, making it good enough for a broad audience is a success. At least the goal of good entertainment should be achieved when people pay for it. I think your take on "hard sci-fi" is admirable, but also the most difficult, and as we could see in "The Martian" or "Interstellar", even hell bent cinema struggles here and there with details people can discuss about for years. I haven`t seen "Dune" by now (!) but what i know of is that it doesn`t revolve much about technology rather than some kind of politics mixed with magic. Here we are again.

I really don`t want to crash the party but i`ve heard the ISS grew an appendix. Any chance to get rid of it? Can it be remotly controlled and deorbited? Was the helium used to pressurize propellant? Will it weld itself slowly to the ISS if not removed?

The interdimensional landfill is a great idea, and it sounds remarkably convenient. Full support from here.

The audience for hollywood sci-fi doesn`t care anyway for physics, why bother? And people who know the fallacies just enjoy the show mostly and relax for ninety minutes. A good story is more important, the tech is sci-fi anyway.

So... much... yes!

Aaah... the good ol` banana for scale.

...and the mother of said Egg... Which one is the ghost, which one the machine?

Time will tell, patience .

Now, that i have discovered, that Mr. Dilsby has returned... my mind is blown a way

Probably a real bad idea. I voted no. This is a scientifically touched software and the direction should stay as it is, there are more than enough games to "play"around the topic of warfare.