Does anyone have any recommendations for a SciFi series? I'm getting decidedly bored of my Harry Potter marathon. Peter F Hamilton suggestions need not apply.
I'm generally reading during my lunch hour, so something pretty snappy. Basically I prefer to read about characters doing things rather than the author describing things.
@DaaaahWhoosh With hyperspace, wouldn't "through" just become "ignoring" when you get rid of the planet? I mean, by evidence of tESB, it's trivial to jump far enough outside the galaxy to watch it out a window.
So it's not like a trader would exactly have to stop for supplies.
@NexTerren as I recall, in Legends that's not really the galaxy
[ In other sources, this object is identified as a cluster called the Rishi Maze (2002, Episode II DVD Exclusive Content). In the The Complete Star Wars Trilogy Scrapbook (1997), it's simply identified as a spinning star cluster. ](scifi.stackexchange.com/a/100421/46611)
aww, the linking didn't work
but travelling takes time in Star Wars. They just don't show it in the movies
other than black markets galore what would be the other troublesome things that i will be dealing with? apart from bigger taxes that the crown will surely put on my shoulders
and of course what would be the benefits of such system?
Assuming the guilds are in the major towns, the merchants might be more than willing to sell direct to the public without having to go through the hassle of travelling and losing their profit margin to the guilds.
apart from no tariffs, very fast transport of goods with the help of horse powered rail network... and no merchant is allowed inside the territory anyway, they'll go "missing" sin the territory is this
"because of its treacherous environment both flora, fauna and mystical alike(ultra rare, ultra strong wild animals/creatures like that of a dragons, wyverns, manticores, even some dinosaurs both herbivore and carnivorous type and many more including flesh eating plants, mischievous fairies other creatures that is hazardous or almost to humans) made this territory a harsh land to live in desp…
So, you're controlling the border entry points then. If merchants can't enter the territory for fear of being eaten, then I don't really see how they can avoid the guilds. They just conduct business at the borders and turn away.
yes that is the case since theres only 2 points of entry... 1 south 1 north the territory is effectively in between the two most powerful nations in the continent
"The 'only' route on the way to the kingdom is through the a long stretch of mountain pass that branches along the way towards other settlements inside the territory."
their lives are at stake on trading, if they are not caught by the police force they'll be eaten by the wild creatures, played by the fae folk or most likely have their heads in the bounty board for hunters and adventurers alike
which i'll reward them with gold as heavy as the merchant in question, dead or alive
i'm really a good dictator or a tyrant? thats the right word right?
I really have no idea what that scene is all about.
But I would be pulling that same expression if the poop suddenly got transported out of me. I can only imagine what the effect of the sudden vacuum would be.
@Pete Looking for book recommendations? HIGHLY recommend The Expanse series. Leviathan Wakes is the first book.
I'm currently working through the Virga series, and it is some great world building. Sun of Suns is the first book.
If you want something a little different, the Three Body series is really interesting. The Three Body Problem is the first book, and has a unique (for me) perspective as it was written by a Chinese author.
Ah, just caught up to where you said you already liked the expanse. I'm really excited that Babylons Ashes came out
Yes, I've read the Expanse series, and the latest book should be out fairly soon (a matter of days). I did start the Three Body Problem, but it was heavy going with all of the Chinese military ideology stuff.
Oh, it's out now? I'll need to sync my Kindle.
Boom, got it. Good stuff, I'll start reading it right away, thanks!
Also look at Peter Clines if you haven't already. I've ready his whole catalog and I don't think he's had a bad one yet. He has a Superhero vs Zombie Apocalypse series that is really good. Ex-Heros is the first book. And his book 14 is also really good. Basically LOST set in a LA apartment building.
Thanks to audiobooks I go through them annoyingly fast. So when someone asks for a recommmendation I'll just skim over the stuff I've been reading lately and pick a few favorites from the list, occasionally going into my all time favorites.
I suppose it might be a good time for me to start getting into audiobooks. I recently tried my hand at painting and assembling miniatures, and it seems like something I could do a lot of
So they have a suggest a book program where you can receive 1 free book that someone suggests to you. After the first one you have to purchase anything else. IF you see anything interesting, take a look at this and send me a PM: reddit.com/r/audible/comments/58icaf/book_list
@kingledion I'm thinking of the combination of your recent answer and your space piracy answer. Would putting the stations substantially lower in LEO at all affect the initial burn time, or would it be insignificant? I can't imagine it would add up to too much of a difference.
That warm fuzzy feeling when you do a support call for software you support and the first thing the user says is instructions how to uninstall it from his machine.
I discovered that they never had the issue in the first place (?!?) and first tier support had actually created a separate issue for them that I had to fix.
@Green He wanted it off his machine forever. To be fair, from a user's point of view the software is 100% to get in their way and not help, since it's security software.
@HDE226868 My space piracy answer was assuming starting from a geosynchronous orbit at 42,000 km. Fortunately, you have given me a great reason to update my escape velocity spreadsheet with orbital velocity numbers!
When you have idiot users that will click on every. single. mother. f'ing. attachment that appears in their inbox, providing them with fake infection is just going to confuse them and trust their hardware less.
@kingledion Ohhh, right. I forgot about that. Hm. I'll have to pick one of the two ranges. Although I suppose some stations that need geosynchronous orbits could have them, and others that don't could be shunted to low, low LEO.
We'll get the report at the end of the week. We *have* gotten several users coming to our office happily reporting the phishing email, prod that they found it. So that's good, at least.
...Of course 100% of said users are in IT, so the results are somewhat biased.
@NexTerren If it doesn't break an NDA or confidentiality policy, I'd love to hear rough numbers about the results and which departments did better than others.
@HDE226868 The numbers are in: from 200km LEO to Geostationary orbit is two burns totalling 3.92 km/s, while the escape burn from 200km LEO is 3.22 km/s. Compare this with a 2.15 km/s transfer burn to Mars from geosynchronous orbit and a 3.60 km/s transfer to Mars burn from LEO.
Of course, those are Hohman transfers only, I don't really know how you'd calculate a non-orbital path to Mars, which is probably more what you want. The elliptical orbit is going to take you years, if you want to get there in 3 months you have to do something else altogether.
I want to add some metadata properties to some files. Just like there are Owner, Computer, Title, Subject, etc for doc files, I want to be able to add some custom attributes. How can that be done?
Reaver Attempts was an accomplished lawyer, doctor, and cop, until one day his entire family was killed by a mutated turkey. Now he's got no thanks to give, but plenty of blood to spill.
"Previous Attempts has proven fatal." "You mean 'have' proven fatal." "No. I don't". BOOM
So you know Odo from DS9 or the T1000? Something like that, where I'm essentially a liquid that can assume any form, and various amounts of me can pour off and assume other forms that are still me, then rejoin later.
I'd like to be able to make clothes with my mind. So I could look cool and also make other people look cool for money. And I'd give everyone in my HEMA class free gambesons
@TinyTrEs-2b Eh, only slightly? Like taking a glass of water, pouring half into another glass. One glass stays home, the other drives to work and gets stuff done, then drives home and pours back into the original glass.
Another variation on the ideas is to convert myself into grey goo nano machines. So all the other benefits, and I could break things down to make more me stuff
I want to add some metadata properties to some files. Just like there are Owner, Computer, Title, Subject, etc for doc files, I want to be able to add some custom attributes. How can that be done?
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