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I like it. I know Chris wants it nice since it represents his name. I would rather they had spent time giving us the Crucible or some such but I do like it. I would not fly it. I prefer the 315P. Players still have not learned their lessons about speed, stealth and range in a daily driver.

I can recall once upon a time, I was planning to swap engines. . .

You should be nice to me because I am good enough and smart enough, and dog gone it, people like me. To be fair, the part you are talking about was done online with a free RF Link Calculator, back 6 or 7 years ago. That is the easy, fun part. Now there are so many link calculators online it’s...

. . .over what is assuredly, criminal neglect and malfeasance. I would remind, this is the same Starliner flight that Biden chose to leave stranded on ISS, because he did not want SpaceX to save the astronauts due to Elon Musk’s support of Trump. Musk could have brought these astronauts down...

First nuclear electric propulsion since the ill fated Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO), cancelled in 2005. I presented at NASA headquarters in 2016 how to replace JIMO with something 1/10 the size and cost, but their NIAC Phase 1 funding was not enough to get the project off the ground. Nuclear...

So, in some outrage that CIG is nerfing sniping, I lashed out and calculated what all the missiles on 8 Fury MX could do to a Perseus if it couldn’t kill the tiny S1 and S2 missiles they carry. They offer combined 384k HP damage and the Perseus has 389k HP. I dunno exactly what that means except...

That’s pretty cool and a little disturbing, but it is certainly the trend to use swarms of cheap tech to overwhelm more sophisticated tech. This guy should be trying to sell these, not explaining how he did it. The “Teacup Antenna” is designed for high bandwidth cislunar communications in a...

I get that. I don’t get why there are weapons with 5km range and 5km/s speed, given what you’re saying. Tracking sensitivity is a sliding scale they can slide however they like. If what they like is to REQUIRE close combat and DISABLE sniping, they shouldn’t have sniping weapons.

I would probably start with a spaceborne antenna that I haven’t run through AI yet. I need to generate physical dimensions to 3D print that, which means I need a powerful computer and a copy of COMSOL, which if I remember is about $5k plus $500 per each add on. So we’re looking at a $10k...

I think we’re going to need to wait and see. CIG was very specific in their sneak peek that precision targeting used to require you to target the barrel of a weapon and now all the targetable portions of the ship light up in wireframe. They showed this in the vid. If they won’t let you target...

One presumes they would not use that animation style. Could be any sort of 2D or 3D. The way prices are dropping, especially with AI powered 3D, the real cost of such a series is paying the voice talent, and it sounds like they are already, all-in.

Hey, Chevys break down a tiny fraction of their competitors. Count me a Corvette fan. My younger brother just rented a C8 for a few days while he was visiting friends in FL. Now he’s planning to buy one. They are infectious.

I work at it but it sounds like 4.7 is a huge reset we know very little about. We’ll have to wait and see.

So just to be clear in a few things. I am talking about using the TAC, not the MAX. The TAC has a much larger signature. I really can’t tell what you are responding to when you say “Effective range on the size 2 guns is significantly less than the "range of 5KM," and is, currently, less than...

The current friend or foe radar sharing should automatically give the best look from any ship in a group to the entire group, allowing all others to reduce their radar power. We’ll find out in a few days. All radar sharing will likely be the same. What I’d like to see is the interferometric...

You are not hearing what I am saying. The turrets on the Perseus, Void Bomber, Polaris, Idris, Marauder and Javelin are near stationary and hard to miss. The Fury are small and nimble and very hard to hit. The turrets on the Perseus have a range of 3 km. The guns on the Fury have a range of 5...

It works. I designed a next generation naval destroyer with it last week and it is twice the combatant as the Trump class battleship at 1/5 the cost. Two weeks ago I designed a new combat rifle that if developed would replace all combat firearms over night. Both are revolutionary and bringing...

I lived in Portland in the 80’s and early 90’s, and at that time it was beyond doubt the most beautiful city I had ever seen in the US, second only to Leuven Belgium. It pains me still how that city has been trashed by the demon hordes and no one fights back. So much graffiti on so much polished...

Yeah, exactly. And think about the sheer enjoyment of flying something so fast and nimble, and shooting something so fast it never misses. Now add to that all hits on remote turrets one-shot them, and the skeeters are there to kill the PDCs and turrets. It just sounds like great fun to me...