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Post by Pttg on May 11, 2020 19:37:37 GMT
Looks like a good material to add!
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Post by Pttg on Jan 26, 2020 9:14:59 GMT
Just something to note. Reactors in game have a requirement that they must be able to function for 6 whole months of nonstop use at max power. Reactors as mentioned also aren't just giant lumps of supercritical materials. Control rods specifically are there to prevent the whole thing from exploding. As for the new questions posed. 1. Reasonable temperatures for radiators will vary depending on who you ask, but in my opinion, it will be based on what the outer armor is, and how that refracts off this armor. Lower temperatures for something like Aluminum (the radiators on the ISS don't glow partially for this reason). 2. Reactors should have shielding, basically anything that is next to our unshielded reactors should be microwaved to death nearly immediately, especially high power ones. 3. The rail gun question depends on how big the projectile is, really. A well done whipple shield can effectively negate most of those pretty effectively. All you need is a reasonably dense metal and you're good to go. The six month limit annoys me when I want to build NTRs for missiles that have an operational duration of like 30 seconds to ten minutes.
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Post by Pttg on Dec 30, 2019 7:14:43 GMT
The rumor is that it's completely unrelated. Can't totally blame Qswitched. CoaDE is an amazing, unique project, but a moneymaker it is not.
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Post by Pttg on Nov 24, 2019 20:18:37 GMT
We tend to call those casaba howitzers or nuclear shaped charges. The papers on how these devices function have either not been released or else haven't been written yet, so they aren't in the game.
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Post by Pttg on Nov 23, 2019 19:54:56 GMT
Bonus: Suppose you want to make a very, very low-density structure. If you use very limited centripetal force, or heck, just use a minor asteroid, you get the lightest dust snowfall, perhaps leading to different behaviors once it's sintered. If you want high density, spin it like an unbalanced clothes dryer and get 2+ Gs of compression in the powder.
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Post by Pttg on Oct 23, 2019 18:49:49 GMT
Hello. It's been a while. Between struggling to support myself financially and trying to get a different game project off the ground, I haven't really had time to pay attention to CoaDE. I apologize. I should clear up first that I still do intend to release patches for CoaDE. I can't guarantee any sort of reasonable frequency anymore though. As you've seen, it's been almost a year without a patch. However, they will still come. Mostly bug fixes and the like, but I hope to get in a new feature here and there. A Patreon might be the best option. I know that I would be happy to kick a few bucks your direction every month in hopes that you can support yourself on maintaining CoaDE and developing new projects.
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Orion
Oct 16, 2019 21:59:00 GMT
Post by Pttg on Oct 16, 2019 21:59:00 GMT
If there's something CoaDE has taught me, it's that if your ship is close enough to the fight for it to matter which direction you're facing, you've already lost. unless you're multiple light-seconds away and getting slow-roasted with infrared lasers, there's not a whole lot that changing your facing can really do.
Instead, just launch your drones and stay out of the system.
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Post by Pttg on Oct 13, 2019 18:49:38 GMT
VCS is a wide group of metals. Most tool steels are VCS. It's super common. Tank armor is classified but it probably is VCS. Skyscrapers rely on compression strength much more than tensile strength, and concrete is a supermaterial in terms of compression strength.
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KSP 2
Aug 28, 2019 17:47:37 GMT
Post by Pttg on Aug 28, 2019 17:47:37 GMT
What are the problems with unity in specific?
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Post by Pttg on Aug 18, 2019 17:22:03 GMT
A lot of zero g sex. No, seriously You bring up an interesting point! Getting erections (or, at least, good ones) in freefall is pretty impossible for humans (Viagra probably won't help). I also think that both participants needing to be strapped down would be quite unsexy (there are some people into one person being restrained but I've yet to see double-bondage), and there would be an issue of tiny droplets of fluids floating around after each, uh, "slap." So everyone but extra dry (or extra careful) lesbians and half of gay men are out of luck, since I don't think most straight men and and the other half of gay men would be that receptive to prostate stimulation (even if there were some kind of electro-implants in the future). What in the frick frack snick snack is going on in this post
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Post by Pttg on May 14, 2019 19:45:19 GMT
Note to self: In the event I ever become world's dictator/God Emperor/similar mandate by law that all spammers and spambot authors caught should be summarily stuck full of anti-shock medications, skinned alive, then crucified. Going the merciful route, I see.
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Post by Pttg on May 14, 2019 19:42:40 GMT
Science fiction that is written in order to be about the technology or the science is, inevitably, boring drek... and even when it gets the science right, it gets the culture wrong. How many diamond-hard sci-fi novels depict the soviet moon bases of 1999? The maglev trains and waste treatment facilities of an independent US west coast in 1970? (ok, that one's just the one novel called Ecotopia, but still.)
Do what Jules Verne did. He did not see himself as a science fiction author at all; he wrote stories about people, and he used the science of his time to inform the way those people acted and thought about their worlds.
If you're writing about the future in order to be seen as some kind of prophet, I recommend instead that you do what I planned on doing one time: First, write a manuscript that describes the modern world obliquely and with a few fundamental inaccuracies. Pour a cup of tea on it, dry it out, and leave it in your basement for a year. Then, "discover" your "great-grandfather's unpublished novel," and publish it to vast public acclaim. This way you get to be nearly 100% accurate AND actually alive in time to be lauded for it.
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Post by Pttg on Apr 29, 2019 23:13:55 GMT
I think he published something, like literally a short story. Might have just moved on, too. There's been next to no moderation of spam here, for instance.
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Post by Pttg on Mar 20, 2019 15:58:37 GMT
That's about the only spaceship I'd call diaphanous. Still, not an unreasonable approach.
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Post by Pttg on Jan 30, 2019 8:48:57 GMT
I think we're a bit late, then.
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