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Viatra wrote:http://i.imgur.com/fN9CEzM.gif
Been a while. What's up?

Something of Xis' that should be tucked away in his pants if he bothered to wear some.

So it's almost to the submission deadline and there's only been two done for the SotG, sorely disappointed in you people :p

Yos namoi

Imperial and federal union of states

Ozun freehold territories wrote:-snip-

This is not appropriate for this RMB. Please refrain from posting material like this again.

Neornith wrote:And this is why Xis is banned from Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart is just a part of the oppressive hierarchy!

Vocenae wrote:So I was watching "Everything Wrong with Edge of Tomorrow" last night and one of the 'sins' was the holographic display they used during the exposition sequence after Tom Cruise tells Emily Blunt that he is reliving the day over and over again.
The logic behind said 'sin' didn't make much sense to me, because apparently holographic displays would somehow not be efficient at transmitting information like current displays would? They did it again when I watched another video on The Chronicles of Riddick, where the Necromongerr's use some kind of formable liquid to project their information.
Now a large part of me wants to say "You Cinematics people have no imagination at all" but do they have a point? Now this won't stop me from wanting/saying I use holotanks and tables for displaying things but do you think holographic displays would be more inefficient than just normal manipulative screens like we have now?

I think it's less about efficiency in general and more than they're so overused in sci-fi movies. After Earth is a great example of having holograms that make no sense, just for having holograms. For some reason some people seem to think that once holograms are a thing there will be no more need for there to be any kind of flat screens, even though there are things they do just as well or even better. There are things that holograms would be great at when you need to see something in 3D -it seems like they'd be great for maps to show topography and terrain, for example- but I also remember that After Earth features what's basically a pill bottle with a holographic label on it. Why is the label holographic? Because sci-fi. That's the only reason as far as I can tell. So I think that's what CS was getting at.

Convergea

The legion of war

So we have a nice discussion of plate tectonics and then another about what's in Xis' pants going on simultaneously?

Never change TLC. Never change.

Xiscapia, Convergea, and Yos namoi

The legion of war wrote:So we have a nice discussion of plate tectonics and then another about what's in Xis' pants going on simultaneously?
Never change TLC. Never change.

Well, they're the same discussion. We just haven't gone into cause and effect between the tectonics and the pants or lack thereof.

Xiscapia

Convergea wrote:Thank you!
So your saying it probably wouldn't have plate tectonics, but would still have a molten core allowing for an atmosphere?

Yup! And some pretty impressive Olympus Mons style shield volcanoes, too.

The legion of war wrote:So we have a nice discussion of plate tectonics and then another about what's in Xis' pants going on simultaneously?
Never change TLC. Never change.

As another forumgoer once said, what's happening in my pants is always relevant!

Senkaku wrote:Well, they're the same discussion. We just haven't gone into cause and effect between the tectonics and the pants or lack thereof.

TIL I can cause earthquakes.

Xiscapia wrote:As another forumgoer once said, what's happening in my pants is always relevant!

Just because you keep taking pictures of it and putting in the newspaper doesn't make it relevant.

Xiscapia and Rethan

Post self-deleted by The gox.

Greetings, The gox, and welcome to TLC! If you have not done so already, I would advise taking a look at The Local Cluster Mission Statement as well as the FT Advice and Assistance Thread. If you have any questions please feel free to field them here, send a telegram to one of our advisers, or drop-by our Internet Relay Chat channel (linked in the World Factbook Entry above).

Again, welcome to The Local Cluster! :D

Post by Ponyi meridia suppressed by Imperial and federal union of states.

I just realized something: TLC is really "talc" spelled in capital letters without the "A." The "A" has a triangular shape, just like...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRWbIoIR04c

The Ten Thousand Suns wrote:Yup! And some pretty impressive Olympus Mons style shield volcanoes, too.

So what was that about plants absorbing and secreting minerals?

Imperial and federal union of states

Ponyi meridia wrote:-snip-

Right, didn't say anything about this earlier, but this kind of meme/reaction image/video spam? Not good. Please keep posts on the RMB germane to the object and purpose of the region. This is not a chat thread.

Convergea wrote:So what was that about plants absorbing and secreting minerals?

Well, without new crust being created, low or nonexistent plate activity results (we think - we haven't seriously gone prospecting on Mars) in a fairly mineral-poor planet. Most of the minerals present are going to be bound up in the sand and soil, and they'll be in compounds rather than in their pure form (Fe2O3, or rust, rather than pure iron, for example). For humans at our current technological level, reversing the oxidization to get the pure iron back out is very difficult. Biological life, on the other hand, can extract and use iron out of complex forms like spinach. With enough biological tampering, you might be able to engineer a plant that extracted a particular metal out of the soil, turned it into a more usable form (like goethite, FeO(OH), a type of iron ore), and either secreted it as pellets, or used it as a building material in its trunk. The process would be incredibly slow - a plant might produce a few pellets a year, or you'd need several trees to make a sword - and the plants would probably deplete the soil in a few generations, but it could be done.

Essentially, metal of any sort is going to be precious, and a lot of agriculture space (particularly on the rich-soiled sides of those volcanoes) is going to be given over to whatever plants are producing your iron, copper, tin, and silver. Ironically, aluminium, which requires huge amounts of technological achievent to process, might be the most common in your society, as it's light (so it's found on or near the surface with regularity) and mixes in sand or soil in the form of aluminium oxide or a myriad of other forms. Your people are probably going to avoid using metal for anything that doesn't need to be made out of it - I'd recommend looking at medieval Japan and at wood-bodied cars and planes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules) to see what you can do to reduce metal use.

Xiscapia and Convergea

I posted a story on the Compendium if anyone's interested.

Imperial and federal union of states wrote:Right, didn't say anything about this earlier, but this kind of meme/reaction image/video spam? Not good. Please keep posts on the RMB germane to the object and purpose of the region. This is not a chat thread.

Sorry, the RMB was so loaded with such behavior it just felt like the norm.

Greetings, Edn v, and welcome to TLC! If you have not done so already, I would advise taking a look at The Local Cluster Mission Statement as well as the FT Advice and Assistance Thread. If you have any questions please feel free to field them here, send a telegram to one of our advisers, or drop-by our Internet Relay Chat channel (linked in the World Factbook Entry above).

Again, welcome to The Local Cluster! :D

Thank you! I'm happy to be here with you!

Xiscapia wrote:I posted a story on the Compendium if anyone's interested.

Just read it, very nice.

Xiscapia

Senkaku wrote:Just read it, very nice.

Thank you! ^^

Ponyi meridia wrote:Sorry, the RMB was so loaded with such behavior it just felt like the norm.

Nah we got in trouble for that, best to just tone it down for the time being.

Quick question for my FT peeps, hover or tracks what do you add the pros and cons for each one

Perseid federation

Neornith wrote:Nah we got in trouble for that, best to just tone it down for the time being.
Quick question for my FT peeps, hover or tracks what do you add the pros and cons for each one

Track shoes

Pros:
- cheaper to make
- cheaper to use
- easier to maintain
- can be mass produced more easily

Cons:
- visible track prints
- exerts greater downforce

Hover

Pros:
- little or no presence of tracks
- no moving parts

Cons:
- hard to steer
- harder to maintain
- more expensive to make

Feel free to add m8s.

Perseid federation wrote:Track shoes
Pros:
- cheaper to make
- cheaper to use
- easier to maintain
- can be mass produced more easily
Cons:
- visible track prints
- exerts greater downforce
Hover
Pros:
- little or no presence of tracks
- no moving parts
Cons:
- hard to steer
- harder to maintain
- more expensive to make
Feel free to add m8s.

Related to the lesser or total lack of downforce on a hover vehicle, but it could do things like pass over bodies of water quickly that tracked vehicles would either have a harder time with or couldn't do at all without needing a boat or bridge. At least when it comes to military matters, you can't underestimate the value of being able to move quickly over a river. Doubly so if it's a river of something particularly nasty.

Yos namoi

The hover vehicles definitely have the advantage over tracks in terms of mobility, though I suspect they'd have weaker armor in order to help keep themselves sustained off the ground. That issue may or may not be fixed by giving the hover vehicles shield generators, depending on how effective the shields are and the weight of the shield generator itself. No doubt the hover vehicles will be higher in price and slower in production.

On a minor note: The issue of ground vehicles not being able to traverse over water is a little moot if the grounded tanks in question are similar to Red Alert 3's Tsunami Tank.

Yos namoi

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