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If what you said us so then you just found another use for the common scifi portal. Since trope scifi portals simply let everything through. Also, this would be way over the average reader's head anyway unless they are studying Einstein's relativity and understand it. And by present I mean the NOW. Light from a 5 years ago you will not see from a portal 5 LY away. You will see light emitted that very second. Also though people in different locations may perceive time differentlly due to gravity. They can STILL set a deadline for something to be done at a certain time. So there is ALWAYS a now. If there was not global government and business would not care as much about coordination over differing timezones.

You won't send EM back through time. The EM photons transmit through the portal in real time...the present. Allows you to see whatever is on the other side in real time among other things.

Nothing bounces off, stuff just ignores it in my version. Yet your version would require vacuum use only. It would be difficult to use, since even a stray bit of matter will deathray anything networked on the other side. I could akways use both LOL. Your version would be Mark I portal type, lesss safe and basically weapons grade and not for sale except on black market. Mark II portals are my type, that ignore stuff passing through that is not radiation, letting it pass on through...but not to the next portal. Just through.

I meant with computer animation and voice acting, it would not make much of a difference...cost wise I hope? As the actors and 'property' would all be digital. The main bill you will get is from digital art and animation folks. Anyone want to see a digital Anna Kendricks?

Ummm...not really. If you tried to put mass through it would act as if the portal is not there and pass to the other side of the gate...like if you threw a rock through a hoop. Did not go anywhere weird, stayed in same location. Also, if you saw someone on the other side of portal (you would because they reflect light), you could literally walk through their image screen as if it was not there. Kind of like a screen in an aperture, a screen of light if you will. EDIT: That said, your mass direct to energy version would make AM and fusion obsolete. You could have a photon drive anywhere you go long you had mass to chuck into the portal. Your version is more powerful and versatile than mine.

You have structural ring device called a portal. The only thing you can portal through the aperture is electromagnetic radiation. Be it optical light, gammas, UV, beams of radiation etc. Also dawned on that with enough powerful lasers firing into your propellant, you could get torchdrive rocket efficiencies. No need for fusion or nuclear reactor drives, as you could pump enough laser power from home base into your rocket propellant that you could match that efficiency. You're not power limited so long you don't destroy your engine with too many lasers via portal.

I know...it's just I don't think real physics would hurt this stort-the stowaway, and would make it look more awesome. We get fake so much we come to expect it? Why not surprise folks with reality if a story can allow for it? As for graphics...I really think someone out to do voice acting with realistic CGI, as I know they can do that.

Linux. I can use windiws emulators for windows. And get a lot of stuff free programs as well to do stuff I never did in windows. Also more securethan windows

Why can't they pay one of you guys as a science consultant to get it right for once.? For crying out loud...I'm serious. Email those jokers. You need about a 1000 meters of tether for non-disorientating 1g spin. Even I know that. Thanks to you guys.

Maybe...depends on distance (ten ft aura). And forget social moderators. Give them natural insectoid shoulder mounted wings that can flash in pulses, letting others know from a distance tgat your emotions are negative so evade or pass by quickly if you must. This is considered common courtesy. Wings are not good for flying, but can still flap and pulse signal. Wing tips stop at the wrists for length. In micro-g in orbit? You bet they can fly around!

I have no issue with that. For what it's worth...an Orion likes extra mass anyway so you could do that. However at this point, you could launch it, but I doubt you could land it unless you separated it module by module. That's a lot of modules to deorbit! I know people say shuttles, but reentry is not the kind of thing any craft needs to do on the regular without taking it into the shop for repairs.

Solar system only.

Been there. Done that. Other 'outcasts' tend to like like. So there's that. Not to say I truly am a social outcast, yet as far as me and that parent? Pretty much yeah. EDIT: Thanks for your help. Will use.

That is rough. But not everyone would give in so easily. I would not, since my parent I am not close to has a lifetime of trying to pressure me into agreeing with him and it has failed more often than not.

What do you mean fall in line? They won't read minds, just feel a ten foot radius of emotions of other humanoids. Not animals. I presume you mean people will try to get along until they get tired of it? But feelings affecting the few will effect the majority...unless they practiced emotional isolation. Want happy employees? Feeling really upset? That's a sick day for you. Since we don't want a bunch of workers feeling upset do we? Feeling a bit upset? Let's resolve at the beginning of the shift with whoever offended you in the 12 foot talk circle. EDIT. Social moderators would likely have jobs. Being isolated but having a view of all and a speaker to speak to all. Sounds like being an empath society is harder than being human. They could even adjust to human society if they get over how 'dramatic' humans are.

Individuals yes...entire cultures? No. They do exist no doubt, but my experience is limited. That said, being an empath society would have consequences that are farther reaching than that. Here's a list that I can think of, and if I missed anything or get it wrong you may add upon it. 1. Feeling what other humanoids nearby you feel whether you want to or not means that you would get used to it. But also would mean you would rush past people with negative emotions...isolating them if you did not have or want to spend time with them. 2. No more or few secrets. No one can hide that something is eating away emotionally at them anymore. So people get help sooner than later. 3. Spaced apart confrontations. To prevent a fight, two angry persons must stand ten or more feet away from each other so as not to 'feed' off one and other's negative emotions. Alternately they may use a neutral mediator between them who is not upset. 4. Violence will likely be at a ranged distance often. Why? No one wants to feel the fear of their victims. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=04qBqCJlbC0

Being an empath would mean emotional reactions would likely be muted, given how much they can already feel. At least around each other. Humans would some dramatic to them even while acting normal. To humans they would seem almost aloof. I guess offending people will be less of a thing...unless they yell out from a distance and run. Or throw stuff from a distance. Childish but that's one of their options LOL.

Right? For example, if you pulse every two seconds, that's two seconds of free fall inbetween. You could hang a penny in midair for two seconds before it came crashing down. And the rebounds! Coins would rebound more than usually but eventually settle down. Bouncy balls? Take a while unfortunately. Unless I got this all wrong, pulse propulsion with standard orion model won't be smooth uninterrupted 1g like on Earth. So you may as well forget using it for that and instead use coasting and long tethers with modules with rotation spin gravity. One could do higher g pulses to reach places faster anyway, since gravity interrupted every two seconds would get awkward fast. What do you know and think on this?

I agree with you. No point in sinking your show from the start right? However human behavior is remarkably versatile. So much I have found that I have virtually given up trying to modify scifi alien behavior to be more 'alien' since it never will truly be. And we don't like....we humans don't like at length reading about non-human behavior we cannot relate to either. Empathy matters since we are willing to care about anything we can emphathize with. A lack of empathy goes closer to separation to destruction of what a human cannot emphathize with. Example? Do you think Hitler empathized with the Jews? Don't think so. My conclusion? Apart from adding beast traits to modify 'alien' (human really) behavior, the only other viable trick I have is giving aliens powers/abilities we do not have. So the 'alien' is essentially the answer to what if humans had this power or ability? All of them? Look no further. Alien race created. Empathy installed.

True...kind of mundane, but possible. Other uses: Real-time viewscreens: More than that really, since if a person on the other side shines a death ray laser on you, it WILL hurt. Military Defense: Laser cannons amped via power station ready to appear off any portal you want. You don't even need your own laser cannons when you can 'borrow' them via portal. Cashing in: Someone is going to make buckets of cash charging people for portal time usage Conclusion: I like the idea of being less limited by physics and more limited by how much cash you are willing or able to pay. Do lots of impossible stuff, but not too much because you will go broke if you do. Probably inspired by space sims...where lack of credits/money is literally the greatest restraint on you can or cannot do.

It dawned on me that scifi portals that could transmit energy via radiation and or beams would be very useful while not being overly cheaty either. It would limit how much propellant you could use, but when your energy limit is literally the biggest power plant back home that means: 1. Fusion pellet Orion propulsion should be viable. Since you don't need onboard laser power from your ship as you are transmitting it from home. You are dropping pellets and zapping them behind you to make them go boom. 2. You could also make a kind of Laser Thermal Rocket, using the overpowered lase as good as or better than a NTR without having to generate the waste heat yourself. 3. Nearly run out of propellant? No problem in space! So long you find a low gravity moon or asteroid you could lase a chunk off and use it as propellant via pulse aser ablation. Granted, it won't let you run indefinitely, but is versatile. Any other uses I you can think of I may have missed? By the way, if we ever do make portals, I reckon EM portals may be more likely easier to do then mass transfer portals. Why? We already transmit EM across vast distances, so I don't think it would be totally implausible to do direct energy portals one day. I may be wrong, but it would be awesome. For space travel. And many other things. Want a scifi laser pistol that creates wasteful but awesome visible glowing beams in the airl? Now you can have one! Just don't overheat the gun barrel from firing too many times LOL.

Hmmm....there are loop holes that can exploited. Namely what-if exploits? What if everyone had empath ability within ten feet of any other humanoid? Answer? Make an alien race around that. They still act human sure, but with all the added baggage of FEELING how any other humanoid near them feels. That would change baseline behavior on many levels, and would make a human trying to lie to one of them a challenge. It would also mean they know if you fear them or even if you had a crush on them without you ever saying so. With other empaths? Let's just say they would practice social distancing evem without COVID-19.

Well yes, Mollari has him beat. Gowron was much funnier in a game than DS9 but the eyes are always awesome.

I read something like this once: "If you can replace the aliens with humans in your story then you could do without them." Often aliens are just placeholders for current or past human cultures anyway. I am not saying it's wrong, just that whether one wants to use placeholder for a human culture ir not, hopefully they are aware that they could get by just as easily or even easier from a worldbuilding perspective by just using humans in the first place. Satire Aliens: I don't care if an alien race is really a subset of human culture if they are hlilarious. DS9 klingons for the win! Gowron anyway. It does what entertainment is supposed to...entertain. Necessary Aliens: If your story's aliens COULD NOT be replaced with humans in your story and still do the basic plot, THEN you you know you have done a good enough job at making them not like us in either behavior or habits that they are needed to make the story work. Basically if you can take aliens out of the story and it changes virtually nothing...that's kind of sad. SW I am looking at you. Yet for the most part I enjoy the human satire of the Ferengi and Klingons on DS9.

Favorite scene...it's not everday in a game that you have to lose an ally in tbe worst way. I have found that IRL it hurts just as bad.