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    Fermi paradox

    in Serious Topic Discussion

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    Thermoelectric does generate more heat, but only away from the side you want to cool. (net result, not a problem for my theory)

     

    I never said Ion thrusters didn't, they just put out significantly less than a standard rocket, and it is easy to lose it in the background. (talk to some of the people working at NASA, they'll tell you the same)

     

    I understand how computers work perfectly. Interfaces are a lot easier than you think, and reverse engineering our programming languages is not necessary. All you have to do is tap into the processor of one computer, and watch it run code for a few minutes to get a decent basic interface. (I've seen it done in-person twice)

     

    I'd like to see some kind of proof that the sources from actual laser researchers on Wikipedia that I looked through are false concerning blooming.

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_laser

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_laser

    Vent

    in Free-For-All

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    The whole party was funded by the Koch brothers and actually doesn't represent a damned thing but corporate greed. Seriously, if you want to know what any party is about, just follow the money. And here, the money leads back to Charles and David Koch.

    And what does that have to do with the beliefs of the organization? If I donate to a group, or start one with my own money, does that mean that the group has no other focus than my belief that every piece of software, music, or video should be available to pirate?

     

    I'm sick of people looking at the few people backing an organization, and thinking the beliefs of the organization are a sham to cover their real intentions, even when the actions of said organization contradicts it.

     

     

    Oh, and fuck day-1 DLC, and pay to win free to play games.

    Iraqi civil war.

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    Source: Friend in the DoD. (not something I can link to online)

     

    There are a lot of things that aren't able to be sourced through the internet, and saying that it's not true because it isn't on the internet is like believing the news on TV tells the whole story all the time.

    Fermi paradox

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    I would also put some cloaked transponders in orbit right next to some defunct parked com satellites. They will never be spotted there and it will cut the required transmission power for the land based primary probes.

     

    "Cloaking" is nonsense. You can't stop infrared emissions through your hull.

     

    P.S. I have really taken your criticism of my laser heat dissipation idea to heart. You say it doesn't work like that - can you explain why do you think so?

     

    P.P.S. Actually, it is not my idea at all. The first I read about it, I think, was in David Brin's "Sundiver"

     

    Convection.

     

    Heat itself is not infrared radiation and does not transmit solely through infrared. The heat in the ship will transmit directly to the material around it, then through it to other material, and then eventually out to the hull where it will *then* radiate off through infrared. There WILL be heat escaping through the hull. No amount of technological wizardry will change that. This is not something that can be changed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling

     

    Plate the hull with them, and run cooling tubes around the inside... You can direct the thermal energy anywhere you want it to go. (and can even be used to generate electricity when it's not cooling)

     

    An *accelerating* spaceship produces a MASSIVE amount of heat that no amount of technological advancement could ever conceal. Human activity doesn't. And it's in the atmosphere. You need to be a LOT closer to observe human activity than you do to pick up a hot trail of rocket exhaust.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster

     

    Who says they have to use rockets, or can't use something that won't show up through the stellar wind?

     

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    Also, unless the aliens are using organic or certain optical computers, (we already have interfacing systems for binary and trinary [quantum] computers, both optical and not) we can still interface normally. (who can say with certainty they developed their computer tech radically differently than ours, and have no way to build a basic interface like we do)

     

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    As for blooming, that is only for high-powered lasers that have constant output for long periods. It's easy to send a transmission with a low power laser or pulse laser into space, and not cause blooming. Even changing wavelengths can massively affect blooming from a laser. (using something similar to an x-ray or gamma ray laser, which would also theoretically increase the bandwidth considerably)

    Last Game You Played

    in Gaming in general

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    Warface.

     

    The F2P game from Crytek... You can buy all the cool stuff for money, or you can earn all the useful stuff in-game. (it is NOT P2W) Remarkably fun, and a much greater focus on co-op than any other multiplayer-first or multiplayer-only game I've ever heard of. (very well done IMO, but there are still idiots that think they don't need the team to be able to run through 2 enemies with shields)

     

    Since it's still in beta, I can always forgive it for the few bugs it gets... Like periodic lag that goes away, or enemies appearing out of thin air... (the spawn triggers are either too slow, or not far enough away for some)

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