Posted on 12/21/2004 12:25:42 PM PST by hk409
Edited on 12/21/2004 12:54:14 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Kzinti?
phaugh!
catnip-laced C4-packed robotic mice.
problem solved.
Of course, you could always use metallic helium for a proectile with the railgun system... Have a seperate powerplant to power the mags...
Oh the trouble we could get in to if we could figure out that whole Grand Unification Theory thingie...
oh, my, won't you be thrilled when I perfect my prototype subspace drive (and weapons system)!
Possible origins of the Viking Kitties?
Well, yeah. Get going... ;-)
my system would allow you to track and target opfor at distances over which gravitic and EM tracking would lag too badly to be utile.
it would also allow you to displace an up-to-20m diameter cylindrical "core sample" of the opfor ship by no less than five meters.
once I get it perfected, that is.
naw. the VKs would eat Kzinti alive.
But of course.
And in the meantime, I'll just stick with the old tried-and-true.
At the moment, I'm only concerned about power generation, and sub-light navigation.
Today the system, tomaorrow the galaxy, you know.
well, there's a significant problem that I have yet to even begin to solve.
cutting a chord through the subsidereum is very VERY stressful on matter from this plane.
the greater the distance jumped in the sidereal universe, the longer the chord through the subsidereum, and the closer its centerpoint comes to the Vertex.
The stress effects are cumulative, random, and so far as I can determine not preventable.
it is a problem.
In the other, a black hole, even an artifical one, would pretty much be self aiming. All you gotta do is get it close and let it suck in the target.
Counting on sheer forces from a warp packet would be limited to wave front propagation and a mass driver would forever be limited to C-1.
Warp field. Essentially, the ship would be in a "bubble" of norm space. Normal stresses on carft and crew. Makes a good close in weapon as well. All you'd have to do is brush them with the edge of your warp field and let the sheer forces rip them to sub-atomic particles.
ah, linear-progression in a conventional technology with a foreseeable evolutionary dead-end at a tiny fraction of C.
what a waste.
this is what comes of taking cartesian geometry too seriously.
We live in a universe measurable by 4D systems, where every fact has a point in X, Y, Z, and Time.
That's fine, for measuring, but doesn't reflect the reality of the structure of the multiplane.
We see distance in X,Y, and Z. We perceive duration, beginning, middle, end. But in fact, all of the sidereal universe exists as a single shell dimension around the subsidereum. Our reality is the first planar shell dimension, sort of an Ur-base dimension, "above" which exist yet other dimensions we can only vaguely perceive.
All of what we call cartesian locations are points in the sidereal shell equidistant from the Vertex of the subsidereum.
With sufficiently complex computations, a very small amount of energy, and a sufficiently large variable-geometry surface area for transit-field modulation, we may drop from the sidereal in a "bubble" universe into the subsidereum, with a vector allowing us to go from point Asidereal to point Zsidereal without crossing points Bsideral-Ysideral. Our research indicates that the "bubble" universe remains synched with the prime sidereal universe, so that quaint little problems such as temporal displacement cannot occur.
The effect: Nearly instantaneous displacement from any point to any other point at economically feasible energy expense.
If we dare to chord the subsidereum, ALL Ur-base will belong to us!
this is correct.
S2R asked to be striken from Da List: Ping Swampage strikes again.
Gee, my idea about flinging icebergs to Mars by a big electric catapult seems kinda tame in comparison to this...
I'm starting to get that from the VKs. Still, it's not political season so what else am I going to do but zot/steamroll trolls?
yes: bubble universes are an essential part of it, but the stresses on the bubble mount in a square of the prime Fibonacci Series the closer to the Vertex it approaches.
shorth runs (here to Proxima, say) would spawn a few radicals per molar quantity. no big deal.
longer runs, however...
tame, in terms of the technological vision, perhaps.
still a very worthy and difficult undertaking.
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