Recent content by GTOM

cyborg pilots for fighters arent outside my interest. of course it can be an interesting question, what can be classified as a fighter? if battleships are km big fusion powered things, then a magnitudes smaller ship with crew of two and a small nuclear reactor, that can travel to millions of kms...

Exactly why i started with a note, that missiles cant do everything, like escort shuttle craft. Otherwise economically and militarily it doesnt make sense to send infantry and planes, why not just nuke a third world country... He should be less biased. (if no men on small ships, then eventually...

Yes i would like to reád more hard sf, that involve that element too.

Sorry if my english writing isnt the best, i think about how to rephrase. And yes, i asked about books, and short stories, films tend to be pretty soft.

I wonder how much stories were written, that involve space fighters, and arent so soft as Star wars. I dont think missiles totally make fighter craft obsolate, for example the former cant escort shuttles if one wants to capture a celestial body. I dont insist fighters have to be manned (i...

I think the magnetic Fields repelled the unobtanium, and mine was more expensive due to the electromagnetic flux

I asked ChatGPT to translate literature text for me, so far they didnt say it is horrible. I asked it to write code parts for me, not bad, but i had to fix small things. My old classmate said, he do physical jobs too, pure software cant replace it. Of course a robot can, but the more hardware...

I have a short story part. How AI translates? What do you think, which version was made by human? Gregor Mosley glided on his helicycle among neon streams resembling waterfalls. The private detective enjoyed the air current tingling his face and wasn’t afraid of the dizzying depths beneath his...

After i watched the first season that is based of Asimov's Foundation, i started to read the first Foundation book. I stopped when i read, that they could simply resolve the conflict with Anakreon, because Terminus had nuclear technology... So Anakreon starships ran with gasoline or what?? Okay...

They want to reach another star system, then stop in it as soon as possible. They travel with near light speed. With living beings in the rocket, so no short acceleration time. Scenario 1: they calculate with relativistic effects. 2. They dont, they think travel is purely Newtonian. would they...

But isn't much more energy required to boost with constant 1g until you reach that halfway? (The distance is several light years, maybe a dozen)

The question is, is it possible, that relativistic equations enable to save fuel, compared to what if near light speed space travel were only Newtonian, no relativistic effects? The book didnt talk about saving life support (time dilation helps in that) but wrote, that a ship had lots of spare...

I am reading Andy Weir's Hail Mary. There was a part about relativity: it wrote, that a relativistic interstellar ship had lots of spare fuel, because the mission planners actually ignored relativity, and thought travel will be Newtonian. Am i wrong to think, that is nonsense, and the opposite...

I might cared more about tech details, if i knew anything about plasma and ball lightning physics, how it is possible to contain plasma without a large external structure.

I didnt feel i needed lengthy explanations. I described it glowed white, then destroyed the missile.