Thanks for the spaceship war link. The PRE-spaceship war stuff was even more interesting I thought... and that's a wonderful photo at the top of the page. I'd say with 98% certainty that it is Io in front of Jupiter.
/astrogeek
I have the feeling that war in space and such would take the appearance more of how it works in the Dune series of books.
I haven't read much Dune.
The thing that gets me about almost all scifi with human pilots...no human can think at the speeds spaceflight will be at, so besides the other disadvantages of such a life-support needing squishy thing, there's that as well.
Elite II: Frontier was (hopefully) the most realistic scifi space sim I'll ever play...ships taking forever to get anywhere (you could speed up time), shooting at each other from huge distances with energy beams...dull as dishwater.
I believe what Lex is driving at is that in Dune technical advantages only last a short time. If you don't take advantage of it you might as well produce the simple stuff you have over and over as fast as you can.
/tech warfare for dummies
I have to add that I get tingles when Kirk mentions anything I say.
It's Warholian. I'm famous for 15 nerdseconds.
I used to have a photoblog, but it was never as good as this.
I gotta say, I think it's closer to 15 nanonerdoseconds. I'm pretty small potatoes. Though I'm happy that more days than not I'm able to stir up a bit of conversation.
Go to Talk of the Town diner in Watertown Square, order the scali french toast, and TELL me it's mundane. Actually, just go, and let me live vicariously through you.
Well, sure, if you're going to get all *french* about it. But that's like saying concrete is exciting because of all the cool buildings you can make out of it.
Shut up, concrete is my mother.
You're a woman of mystery, Brooke.
Oops.
that last comment was from me. Sometimes I mentally get this msg box mixed up with my email program, and type "to" instead of "from". Maybe I should fiddle with the UI a bit.
I'm so confused. Who AM I?
No, who am *I*...