The_Mather1

Laughing at something my dad tends to say (in English) that you won't get without using Google Translate. "It's not the fart that kills, it's the smell."

Not really stereotyping, I was going by skin and hair color as well as facial shape. And such traits are local unlike those that define a stereotype. Scandinavians have a naturally pale, but hardy skin and we usually have a slight tan, north-east Europeans have a more milky white, frail skin while north Americans tend to have neutral, but untanned skin. Scandinavians tend to have brighter/blonder hair, north-east Europeans tend to have less colored hair and north Americans tend to have strongly colored, but darker hair. Scandinavians have a more pentagonal shaped faces, north-east Europeans tend to have leaner faces and north Americans tend to have rounder or more square faces. Those aren't stereotyping because they have to do with genetics and environment rather than personality. Now his beard however was stereotypically north American. About half of us speak English pretty fluently, yes, but if you plan to move here, learn the damn language. Thanks to too many people asking themselves that question, only about 75% of school children speak Norwegian fluently thanks to their parents only speaking Arabic (seriously, I'm not kidding, that has actually become a very real problem here due to way too lenient immigration policies).

Didn't check his nationality, but he looked like he lived either in north US or Canada.

Suddenly there's more hits for other accounts than there are for mine when googling Mather1... My face when one of them is on a dating site and belongs to a fat 36-year-old: :blink:

Same here.

Happy birthday, Retech!

Seems like it, yeah

Well, I most certainly love this spring. In just two days I've gone from a slight tan to looking like an Arab. If this keeps up I'll look like I'm made out of charcoal before we even reach summer.

I can't even express the level on which those statements are false, you failed on such an elemental level that there's not even a proper term for it, because it has until now been unnecessary to mention. Ion thrusters don't have a locked power to weight ratio, the smaller something is, the weaker it is compared to its own weight. Just because you increase the size of the construct by a factor of 10 doesn't mean you increase it's mass by the same factor, since you don't need to make every surface 10 times thicker. Rather at 100 times the size, the mass will be 10 times it's original value. Also at 10 times the output, the device itself doesn't have to be 10 times as big, since large parts of the structure don't need to be resized, only the chamber, exhaust and fuel lines do. Just like if you want an engine to have twice the power, you don't double the size of the spark plugs and drive shaft, only the cylinders double, then the motor block is made slightly bigger if the cylinders become too big for its current size. Added to that, I specifically stated improved Hall thruster, as in it has been improved during a few decades of space race, which means quite vast improvement really, because we all know how far we got from starting at nothing the last time.

It doesn't shoot it out faster, it's just bigger so it shoots out more. Because you know, not even an idiot would use a thruster the size of a loudspeaker to propel a spacecraft. If you want evidence that ion thrusters can provide decent lift, Google ionocraft, then you'll see a popular makeshift version capable of lifting itself.

The reason for those low levels is because currently ion thrusters aren't used for propulsion, they're used for maneuvering. They're small enough to carry by hand. And no, it doesn't have to be aerodynamic, it uses the maneuvering thrusters to maintain stability and the propulsion thruster to fly.

Come on, that much was obvious, that thruster is responsible for bringing you around the solar system, of course it's strong enough to fly with.

Never said the thrusters can't keep you airborne, you just can't use them to hover.

There's a reason flamethrowers haven't been used for combat since WWII, when Germany attacked Russia. You can't detect weak radiation over distance, if there was radiation strong enough to detect, you'd be dead. Radio waves can't be translated without the key and the exact frequency at which to look at. You can't fit a computer capable of processing all that on your head. If your hull is breached, you can't enter an atmosphere anyways without tearing the ship apart.

Military science excels in a time of war, mankind however just had its first period of complete peace, as such weapons-related would not have received a fraction of the funding they could have. And tell me, I a person was wearing a ton of chemicals on his back, how would he not be a big, non-moving target, taking out whom would result in his entire squad going up in a fireball? And let spell out to you why radiowaves and gamma radiation readings don't work that way; Gamma radiation isn't detectable over large distances, so if you ever found the point where the detectore would notice the radiation and ut wasn't from debris in the air, you would be a dead man walking, killed by radiation poisoning, you just didn't know ut yet. Radio waves however could be detected, it's impossible to use it to see, and it's pointless to show radio activity on an HUD, since you would only see the signals, not the point of origin, the destination or the data. You can make a pair of sunglasses with built-in IR and UV cameras, but trying to make a VISOR is just a waste. The hull of a ship means its external walls, not its shielding, it can refer to an area more than a meter thick and insulated with pretty much anything useful you can think of. And yeah, that thing is half a meter tall, but you know, things don't actually always work the same way when the scale is upped. And also turrets don't translate into arm-mounted weapons. Now shut up or get out.

It's not untouchable in the manner that a scientist can't upgrade it, but you can't deactivate it, as such would deactivate the ship, including the life support system as well.

Actually the "real" number of the devil is 616, just saying...

The AI controls only the systems that must never be highjacked by a single person, such as the piloting, the weapons and the life support. And the players still decide what to do with them, they must just do so as a majority or have an elected captain.

They may have been implemented for balance, but they still make sense, here the scientists double as programmers, which means they know the logical traps and such with which to gain an advantage when it comes to conversing with AIs. And no, the CUI isn't overpowered, it's just that it's the brain of the ship, if you nerf the CUI, you nerf the ship, and in essence the game itself. Retech, the puzzles were always a matter of if I can come up with any, I made that clear long ago.

Not really; I can't imagine the colonization of Mars happening in my time, and I'm actually going to be working with space-related projects. And yeah, yeah, you can say the Gauss gun is technology we have today, but it's already 95 years since its inventor died, science moves slowly, the only exception is the computer. Retech, the game was ready, still is, nothing has changed. I think this was just Archi trying (and failing spectacularly) to parody me.

Ok, you've genuinely pissed me off with your forced ignorance. Let me repeat myself THIS IS NOT THE [bleep]ING FAR FUTURE! WE'RE JUST REACHING INTO SPACE! MICROSCOPIC FUSION REACTORS ARE NOT A THING THAT [bleep]ING EXIST, NOR ARE LASERS THAT ONLY NEED A FEW MILLIJOULES OF POWER TO CLEAVE A MAN IN HALF! There's no way to create anything that allows your brain to interpret radio signals, because you know, if it could then your head would already be full of a deafening and blinding static that would drive you [bleep]ing insane! Radio signals induct electricity into conductors, your brain is a mess of organic conductors, do the math. There's a reason exposure to high powered radio signals is said to cause brain damage. As for radiation, the things that detect those are called geiger counters, they can only measure the intensity, nothing else, and they're hyper-sensitive. If you were to wear one of those on your head, and it detected something that wasn't pressed up against it, your vital organs would already be in the process of shutting down. Gauss rifles exist as sniper rifles, because there you can take some time in between shots, and becasuse making an electromagnet propel a chunk of metal at high velocity does not even require a fraction of the energy it takes to sustain a high-powered laser, much less one that has an output far into the Giga-, if not Terrawatts. And no, there's no [bleep]ing way I'm going to calculate the size of the ships battery, because knowing that will only lead you back to what I said, it can power whatever you need as long as it's not [bleep]ing huge. And since I have to spell it out for you, the thruster is, believe it or not, at the very aft end of the ship (big surprise), and the maglev is built into the hull, because, you know, where else could it possibly be without tearing all equipment inside the ship apart? And no, robots aren't stupid, nor are they slow, they are just not [bleep]ing gymnasts, as it is we're having trouble making one that can walk on two legs without falling, making it capable of picking up a gun is worse, making it capable of aiming and firing is damn near impossible. What you're saying is "we had cars in 1880, so why can't our cars watch our kids, wake us up in the morning and go earn their own money to pay for the gas?" There's a thing called having a concept of time, you, apparently, do not have it. You're insulting the field of electronics with this belief of yours that one and a third century is pretty much the same as a millennium of intense research. And no, I'm not giving you puzzles before the game even starts. Heck, I never even said that I could guarantee them at all, I implied rather heavily to the contrary in fact.

Just got a letter telling me I have to pay 0,- in taxes... Wut?

Lei, it's my game, I have to answer him, even though most of it is unnecessary nitpickery.

The CIU is essentially the same as SI was, except not accessible to be tampered with by anyone, it will listen to an elected captain or the majority, or alternatively it can be tricked by a single scientist. This is to balance the game so that the military cannot seize control of the ship such as they almost immediately did in the first Space. Engineering is done in the cargo bay, the bridge was specifically stated to be in the front, computer terminals are accessible in each room and bay, toilets are found in each room and near the mess hall. I can't provide a map as of yet, but just imagine that the cre rooms are pretty much small hotel rooms and that the ship is minimalistic, there's only a main hallway and the rooms I have mentioned, as a whole it is only about as large as a ferry. I can't draw anything just yet, but if you imagine it as a fat, 3 story body with a 2 story head where the bridge and CIU is, you've pretty much got it. Such would be pretty much impossible to analyze, remember makind is just barely stretching out into our own solar system, we're not by far close to a really futuristic technology level. You're not going to be allowed to make something like that right away without doing anything. Infrared and UV will be permitted, but radiation, magnetic fields and radiowaves are not only impossible to process as a visual signal, but the prior is impossible to detect as a form of signal. They look like F-35s and the carry the amount of stuff I said, I'm not going to go into detail about how they're wired. If you really need to know, they use hall-effect thrusters for forward thrust and regular ion thrusters for maneuvration. You levitate using electromagnetism to counteract gravity, the field actively changes to keep you stationary, meaning Earnshaw's theorem doesn't apply here. As I said, you use Hall-effect ion thrusters, these use gasses from whatever atmospheres you enter (and survive) to refuel. You are powered by solar power which charges an internal battery, I'm not gonna just pull a number out of my ass, so I'll just say that as long as you don't go overboard (such as with a laser beam weapon), you won't have to mind it unless you stay out of the sunlight for a week. A laser such as those you mentioned there would have to charge for several minutes just to fire once, there's no way to weaponize it at this level of technology. If you want a reason for research not having been put into that, read the first sentence if the intro. Androids have advanced enough movement to be as efficient in combat as poodles with guns taped on their backs. You can't even use them to zerg rush, if you're lucky the weight of the mass of android husks might just crush an enemy or two to death. They can be either, here they can be as good as both. You know how one microphone can only take either whisperin, talking or shouting, and how the sound just spazzes if you breathe on it? Here an all-round microphone treats sound like the human ear does, it can take as wide a breadth of amplitudes of sounds as the human ear, for something extremely low however, you still need a specialized microphone. Remember, this is still in the 3rd millennium. The first quarter of it in fact.

Can't quite tell if you're serious or if I should just ask a mod to delete that post. You have no captain, as the CIU is in charge of the ship, you could elect one, but in order to commandeer the charge, he or she would have to be a scientist in order to convince the CIU of such. The fighters are for all intents and purposes identical to F-35s, with the exception of being VTOL and working in space. The quantity of explosive weapons for them is virtually infinite, but inaccessible as they are loaded automatically after the airlock has been cleared of air and they are put back into storage before it fills again. The Icarus uses an improved form of Hall effect thrusters for propulsion, but stays in orbit by using magnetic levitation to counteract up to 2G to hover within a planets gravitational reach. The crew section is divided in four, with military personnel closest to the armory, medics near the clinic, engineers near the cargo/fabrication bay and scientists near the computer mainframe (note, not the CIU mainframe). The armory and cargo bay are near the back of the ship, the computer mainframe and the clinic is closer to the middle. The mess hall is situated as a break in the central corridor and the bridge is located at the front with the CIU server located beneath it. The fighter bay is located between the mess hall and the bridge, with the airlock being situated on the belly of the ship. Most handheld weapons are still regular firearms, though energy weapons are beginning to take the stage, an evidence of this is the Gauss gun's entry into the sniper rifle category and laser rifles' entry to the assault rifle category, though laser rifles a popularly shunned by the military thanks to their lack of stopping power, and the fact that you have to hit either the heart, brain or skull to actually take out an enemy, since they cauterize the wounds as they cause them, also because they are inefficient at long range thanks to blooming. In robotics, progress has been made technologically but not much in practice. Servos, stepper motors and electric motors are now at their peak, having a strength almost matching their tensile strength when made from steel. This offers little other than fancy prosthetic to military purposes through, as androids have yet to become nimble enough to enter the battlefield and not get shot the instant they meet an enemy. The first nanobot was created almost half a century ago, though they are still hard to produce, and as such only serve medical purposes as of yet. Microphones have reached the level where they rival the human ear. Amy attempt to create a camera that scans the whole spectrum has failed and likely will continue to be impossible, as microwaves, x-waves and gamma waves still only pass through the pixels, while attempting to look at the radio and EM frequencies only results in seeing a static noise equivalent to that of an empty TV channel in the 1990s. Nor can mechanical oscillations be read with anything other than seismometers, or microphones if they produce sound. Yeah, real science applies here, not sci-fi quasiscience.