Beta and Higher patron notice
Added 2018-10-20 00:22:26 +0000 UTCREALISTIC DESIGNS G-M
added new section Mars UMIN
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns3.php#umin
CREW GEAR
added new section Surveillance Drone
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crewgear.php#surveildrone
ANTIGRAVITY
added new section Antigravity Lifters
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/antigravity.php#lifters
FASTER THAN LIGHT
added to Combat Rating Jump Drives notes about undetectable jump points
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fasterlight.php#detectopoint
ADVANCED DESIGN
added to quote Star Queen 2 illustrations by Nick Stevens
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/advdesign.php#breakingstrain2
HIGH-TECH ALIENS
added to Paleotechnology a quote from The Xeelee Flower
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/alientech.php#xlflower
FABULOUS LOCATIONS
added to Cemetery Planets a quote from Antares Dawn
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/location.php#antares
added some illustration of the Ringworld
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/location.php#ringworld4
INTERSTELLAR EMPIRE
added to Barbarians a quote from Space Vikings
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellarempire.php#neobarbarians
LIFE SUPPORT
added to Growing Meat a quote from The Rim Of Space
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/lifesupport.php#tissuevat
COLONY SITES
added to Space Colony Problems comics illustrating several problems
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/colonysite.php#stationproblem
PSIONICS
added to Psionic Technology a quote from Starfaring
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/psionics.php#lsdx6000
Comments
Ah, Piper quotes! Love me some pulp era scifi.
John
2018-10-20 03:57:27 +0000 UTCI did some research into "antigravity" and yeah, most scifi writers get it wrong. What they are talking about is either some form of propulsion that uses Newton's laws of motion to "float" or they are talking pure magic. Asimov got it mostly right with his story "The Billiard Ball", and despite the Wikipedia entry, it's not a perpetual energy machine, you still have to pump energy into it and pump matter into the feeder to produce power. There's another way to get your floaty things, and that's using Negative Matter and Negative Mass. It will cancel out the positive mass of the matter it's associated with, and basically act like a balloon. The only problem is that when negative matter touches positive matter, they cancel out. Not "annihilate" but "cancel"- they touch, they disappear, total energy=0. You'd have to create a "virtual" negative mass to make things float. Real Handwavium. Well, if you could create matter by making virtual particle pairs become "real", you'd have to "pay" for that either in energy or in creating the equivalent negative mass in the region that they were created. I'd think I'd have a better chance of flying by flapping my arms really vigorously...
John
2018-10-20 03:55:57 +0000 UTC
