Beta and Higher Patron Notice for 03/29/2019
Added 2019-03-30 00:12:23 +0000 UTCENGINE LIST
added new entry Pulsed Closed-Cycle Gas Core NTR
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist.php#pulseclose
MINING
expanded the section Rock Rat
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/mining.php#rockrat
added new section CLAIM JUMPERS
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/mining.php#claimjump
UNOBTANIUM
added new section HALO DRIVE
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/unobtanium.php#halo
added new section NANOTECHNOLOGY
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/unobtanium.php#nanotech
INTERSTELLAR EMPIRE
added notes on using AstroSynthesis for empire mapping
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellarempire.php#ascubemap
ALIEN CONTACT
added new section PREDATOR-PREY IN SELF-REPLICATING PROBES
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/aliencontact.php#predprey
MACGUFFINITE
added to Mining a quote WAKANDA VERSUS THE CURSE OF RESOURCES
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/macguffinite.php#wakanda
FUTURE MYTHOLOGY
added to Space Myths a quote SPACEFARING MYTHOLOGIES
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/mythology.php#spacefaremytho
IMPERIAL TELECOMMUNICATION
added to Superluminal Radio a quote from RAISING STEAM
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/telecommunication.php#relay4
QUASI-MILITARY
added to Kessler Syndrome a quote A STICKY SOLUTION
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/civmilitary.php#sticky
Comments
Why, thank you, sir! Actually I have been trying to make an empire framework like this for about 40 years, I started out making a model with toothpicks and balls of clay.
Nyrath
2019-04-06 14:58:00 +0000 UTCYour astrosynthesis tutorial... is phenomenal. I love me some good empire building as an imagination trigger - but you definitely cranked this to 11. Gonna take me a while to wade through all of that... epicness.
R. Allen Murphey
2019-04-06 14:42:11 +0000 UTCNeal Stephenson had that in several o f his novels. In SNOW CRASH some people infected with nanotechnology were doing a complicated calculation. The waste heat from the nanotech would kill each one as they finished their part of the calc.
Nyrath
2019-03-30 01:29:39 +0000 UTCI met Drexler when he gave a talk about nanotechnology in Colorado Springs in 1986-87 I think. He was doing the book circuit pimping his book Engines of Creation. Lots of interesting questions were asked and he made a point that one could make a nano-mechanical computer that you could hold in the palm of your hand, and yet be more powerful than a Cray. (Hyperbole time.) But... when it was running, you'd have to pump ice cold water through it, or more correctly, put ice cold water in one side and get live steam out the other sides. Interestingly enough, Adam Warren, comic book artist, in his Dirty Pair: Sim Hell series, pointed out the problem of using Medic Paste for fast healing... the heat generated by the nanomachines would cook the person they were trying to heal.
John
2019-03-30 01:21:25 +0000 UTC
