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SLOWER THAN LIGHT

added new section Laser Sail

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Slow--Laser_Sail


added new section Starwisp

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Slow--Laser_Sail--Starwisp


added new section Laser-Pushed Lightsail

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Slow--Laser_Sail--Laser-Pushed_Lightsail


expanded section Wahkopen Zomos

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Fast--Starships--Encounter_With_Tiber--Wahkopem_Zomos


added new section Rocheworld

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Fast--Starships--Rocheworld

SPACE STATION


added new section McDonnell Douglas Phase B

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacestations.php#id--Designs--McDonnell_Douglas_Phase_B


WARSHIP DESIGN


added a quote from Joint Strike Starfighter: X-Wings, F–35s, And The Logistics Of Carrier Battles

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewarship.php#id--Ship_Design_Analysis--Eamon_Hamilton's_Analysis

SENSOR DECK


added new section Gravity Gradiometer

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sensordeck.php#id--Gravity_Gradiometer

GEAR


added to Tricorders a news item about sonic sensor technology

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crewgear.php#sonictricorder


INTERSTELLAR COLONIZATION


expanded section Bamboo with description of bamboo charcoal and a quote from Bioethanol Production from Bamboo

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellarcolony.php#id--Growing_a_Colony--Bamboo


MATTER TRANSMITTER


added new section Weaponized Transmats

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/transmat.php#id--Weaponized_Transmats


LIFE SUPPORT


added to Medicine-Drugs: a quote from The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge about Killalc, a quote from Fantastic Voyage about Morphogen, a comment about Rocheworld's No-Die, and a mention of the Methuen Treatment

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/lifesupport.php#id--Human_Factors--Space_Medicine--Drugs


CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS


explained the difference between a salted bomb and a dirty bomb

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunconvent.php#id--Nukes_In_Space

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Comments

Thanks! (Didn't mean to rush you, but good to know that I didn't in fact plunge off said cliff.)

Alistair Young

Alistair, I have parts 5 and 7 up now

Nyrath

Yes indeed, the gravity gradiometer puts a major crimp to stealth in space. It was used this way in Jack Williamson's The Cometeers. The evil Cometae ship was invisible, but the gravity detector revealed its presence. I also mention the problems with Star Trek using the transporter as an easy out here: <a href="http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/respectscience.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/respectscience.php</a>#id--Unintended_Consequences

Nyrath

Oh, I plan to add the other parts, it's just that things got chaotic and some stuff fell through the cracks. I'll get them up ASAP

Nyrath

All very shiny, as ever! I have a minor unrelated-to-this-update question for my own curiosity - I'd noticed that while parts 1-4 of my "Building the Imperial Navy" are quoted under "Astromilitary" (of which I am duly appreciative), parts 5 & 6 aren't. Which, well, I'm not trying to say that they _should_ have been, you understand, that's none of my business, but I did just want to check that the reason wasn't that I'd plunged off some great quality cliff while writing those parts and needed to go back and fix 'em, or some such...? (October was quite a chaotic month around here, so my self-assessment of such things is not all it might be.)

Alistair Young

I would have to say that Dr. Forward's Gravity Gradiometer is the nail in the coffin for realistic "Stealth in Space". Sure, you might find a way to hide your waste heat, make your ship invisible across most of the spectrum, but unless you can generate real negative mass, you can't hide the mass of your ship. Imagine missiles with GG sensor heads: They are programmed to head towards masses that aren't visible, i.e. cloaked ships. The second you use your antimissile systems, boom, you've made yourself visible. The other thing I like is that you raised all my objections to Star Trek's Transporter. Thanks! Don't forget that the writers had it break down more than once to keep it from saving the crew's bacon.

John


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