Beta and Higher Patron Notice
Added 2015-12-27 20:26:03 +0000 UTCMISSION
expanded the section Hohmann Transfer Orbits with a huge mathematical tutorial
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/mission.php#id--Hohmann_Transfer_Orbits
ADVANCED DESIGN
added a new section about Submarine Watertight Hatches
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/advdesign.php#submarinehatch
SIDEARMS EXOTIC
added new section Lightsaber
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sidearmexotic.php#id--Ridiculous_Handwavium--Lightsaber
added new section Primitive Weapons
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sidearmexotic.php#id--Ridiculous_Handwavium--Primitive_Weapons
ROCKETPUNK AND MACGUFFINITE
added to Tax Haven
quote from Captain Future and the Seven Space Stones
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/macguffinite.php#spacestones
quote from One Against The Legion
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/macguffinite.php#onelegion
quote from Procyon's Promise
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/macguffinite.php#procyon
quote from Buck Godot
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/macguffinite.php#buckgodot
ALIENS
added new quote We Know You Are Out There
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/aliens.php#weknow
SPACE LAW
added new section Asteroid Mining Law
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacelaw.php#id--Issues--Asteroid_Mining_Law
SENSOR DECK
added to Longscan a quote from The Illusionists
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sensordeck.php#illusionists
TORCHSHIPS
added a diagram and a few notes to Brachistochrone Equations
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php#id--Brachistochrone_Equations
Comments
“There’s a spurious argument that, well, the State can’t appropriate, but I can!” Johnson says. “But that’s easily refuted. Property exists as a relationship between citizen and sovereign. You only get property rights based on the State.” ...while this is the favored position of States and lawyers, for obvious reasons, I'm sort of philosophically obliged to point out that there are lots of even quite mainstream philosophers, ethicists, anthropologists, and for that matter dogs that would dispute the heck out of it. (Many of whom, I dare say, will be cited by Ceresians of the future when they chuck the dirtsider revenooers out the airlock and their nitrogen tax along with 'em. "Down with Earther landsnatching! No legislation without excavation!")
Alistair Young
2015-12-27 22:01:57 +0000 UTCSome great stuff Winchell. About Lightsabers, Michio Kaku came up with a way to make a lightsaber. Sadly, it required nanobatteries that have the energy density of 470 MJ/L. About 117 times the energy density of Kerosene. Boom, big badda boom. "Reiher's Rule on Energy Weapons: If the weapon can do the equivalent of a bullet's damage and do so more than a couple of times, it's batteries have enough energy density to work as a bomb. Shoot the batteries." Also, Larry Niven's Variable swords have one little problem: They have almost no mass. You can hit some one over and over with one and it would do about as much damage as a stiff wire of the same length. I.e. no damage whatsoever.
John
2015-12-27 21:43:50 +0000 UTC
