Traveling At the Speed of Light

[Atarlost]

Wolfy, you're slightly overestimating the danger of antimatter engines.
Bobby, you're dramatically underestimating the danger of all other engines.

NSWR will kill everything behind you very dead. Fusion drives will kill everything behind you very dead. About the only drive in Transcendence that isn't a weapon of mass destruction to the rear is the inertialess drive. And it's a planet cracker if you ram your ship into one.

Any interesting space drive is a weapon of mass destruction.

[Dalva]

Antimatter propulsion would also kill everything in its wake, which is hard to emulate in-game.

WRONG!

Check out Bobby's Afterburner.

Also, I don't think antimatter would do that any more than a normal rocket would, all the antimatter is being used up in the drive.

Yes it would, not antimatter damage, but the fact that its producing way more energy than a normal chem drive would still makes it very dangrous to stand around...

So you would be green and possibly growing extra arms, what's the harm?

Ok, I meant more of the extreme levels of energy burning you into a crisp more of a thing, but it does output high levels of radiation too.

mhmkay... you guys are real astrophysicist or just a wiki-referrer?
and i never know that antimatter-matter collision will create radiation.

Wolfy, you're slightly overestimating the danger of antimatter engines.
Bobby, you're dramatically underestimating the danger of all other engines.

NSWR will kill everything behind you very dead. Fusion drives will kill everything behind you very dead. About the only drive in Transcendence that isn't a weapon of mass destruction to the rear is the inertialess drive. And it's a planet cracker if you ram your ship into one.

El-O-El! (LOL)

[schilcote]

Antimatter propulsion would also kill everything in its wake, which is hard to emulate in-game.

WRONG!

Check out Bobby's Afterburner.

Also, I don't think antimatter would do that any more than a normal rocket would, all the antimatter is being used up in the drive.

Yes it would, not antimatter damage, but the fact that its producing way more energy than a normal chem drive would still makes it very dangrous to stand around...

So you would be green and possibly growing extra arms, what's the harm?

Ok, I meant more of the extreme levels of energy burning you into a crisp more of a thing, but it does output high levels of radiation too.

mhmkay... you guys are real astrophysicist or just a wiki-referrer?
and i never know that antimatter-matter collision will create radiation.

I am a quantum physicist, an astrophysicist, a nuclear physicsist, a roboticist, and a computer programmer. Intellectually, I pwn.

[Atarlost]

I've seen your technobabble. You might be a real programmer.

[schilcote]

Well, I'm an ametuer, but still, I know more about those subjects than most pepole. I am a very good programmer, I have genetic algorithms to prove it (they don't quite[/1] work, but they're close). I know enough about atomic physics to construct a simple explosive, which is much more than most pepole do.

[Atarlost]

Any reasonably educated person knows how to construct a simple nuke. It's the enrichment that's the hard part and that's engineering.

So, yes, you know more than an illiterate African tribesman or an illiterate migrant farmworker or a high school dropout or an English major. That's not very much.

[Aury]

Pfft... the concept behind atomic weaponry is so simple a 5-year old could figure it out... (well at least I did at that age - after all, that is the age at when I was taught the underlying concepts )

Same goes for dual-layer dvds (though it was CD's back at the time when I had the idea)... I could I been so rich! D:

You do seem like a talented programmer though ^^

still, lets try plopping you out in the wilderness for a few weeks...

[Dalva]

...I know enough about atomic physics to construct a simple explosive...

just say "chemistry". no need for "atomic physics" stuff...
and i think everybody can make an explosive. references are everywhere.

[schilcote]

...I know enough about atomic physics to construct a simple explosive...

just say "chemistry". no need for "atomic physics" stuff...
and i think everybody can make an explosive. references are everywhere.

NUCLEAR explosive. 5-6 megaton difference. But I can also make smaller things like C4.

Well, the only thing anybody can be absolutely sure of is the programming skill, so let's stick to that.

!skill [=75,schilcote,programming]

Knoweldge is composed of two things: memory, and understanding. Understanding I have plenty of. Memory I am completely lacking in. Just because I can't remember the equations that drive these advanced sciences dosn't mean I can't understand them. If I had my computer and Wikipedia at my disposal, I could solve just about any problem.

Not to mention that all this is off topic anyway.

[Dalva]

...I know enough about atomic physics to construct a simple explosive...

just say "chemistry". no need for "atomic physics" stuff...
and i think everybody can make an explosive. references are everywhere.

NUCLEAR explosive. 5-6 megaton difference. But I can also make smaller things like C4.

Well, the only thing anybody can be absolutely sure of is the programming skill, so let's stick to that.

!skill [=75,schilcote,programming]

Knoweldge is composed of two things: memory, and understanding. Understanding I have plenty of. Memory I am completely lacking in. Just because I can't remember the equations that drive these advanced sciences dosn't mean I can't understand them. If I had my computer and Wikipedia at my disposal, I could solve just about any problem.

Not to mention that all this is off topic anyway.

but you said "...a simple explosive..."
LOL nuclear explosive is NOT a simple explosive!

[Atarlost]

On the contraty, there is no explosive simpler than a gun type nuke.

[schilcote]

On the contraty, there is no explosive simpler than a gun type nuke.

Yeah, pretty much. Just two big chunks of fissile material and a way of keeping them apart untill you want to blow something up.