exmachina posted:

It is quality escapism and raises interesting social questions and is scientifically sound, the only thing that we don't have (except for the One Big Lie) today is really efficient engines so we can travel directly to a place instead of using curves to conserve delta v.

This kinda poo poo is all that gets me through this poo poo life so I don't care who's vanity project it is.

BattleMaster posted:

The ship aesthetic in Children of a Dead Earth is really cool, the creator wrote some blog entries on how they ended up looking like that. He wrote the physics first and then figured out what you could actually build if you had nuclear fission rockets like the ones NASA put a bit of research into in like the 70s. Not psychotic Project Orion nuclear pulse poo poo, just using a reactor to heat up reaction mass and spit it out the back.

The gist is that there wasn't very much weight to spare for armor so the ships had to be convex to reduce surface area. The armour itself is mostly a thin layer of aluminum or carbon, and there isn't any mass to spare on covering it with paint except for faction markings. The ships had to be long to allow for adequate radiation shielding between the reactor and crew compartment, especially since the mass that could be spared for shielding was at a premium. The ships were slender to reduce the cross-section presented to an enemy during head-on or broadside approaches. Over 50% of the mass and most of the internal volume is reaction mass since you need a lot of it to get anywhere.

Also IMO the coolest thing are the glowing red-hot radiators. The reactor generates a bunch of waste heat and the only place for it to go is to radiate it into space, and the radiators connected to the reactors get really hot.

There's so much heat generated that there's no hiding in space and the only way to throw off heat seeking missiles is to dump flares that emit even more heat than your ship

Some people on this forum have redesigned the stock ships to optimize them further and they ended up looking like rocketships from Buck Rogers except with glowing radiators where the rocket fins should be which I think is a great look

VictualSquid posted:

I remember reading a lot of this site 5ish years ago. Unless I am mistaken they changed their site layout drastically since then. Which means the author considers the current layout to be modern.

christmas boots posted:

no skul gun tho

Spime Wrangler posted:

they’re only scary because cop robots will have the same legal status as cop dogs by the end of the Biden admin and you’ll get five to ten for throwing that dumb dog in a lake when it won’t stop following you

Farm Frenzy posted:

oh no this thing might awkwardly limp at me

more falafel please posted:

all repetitive, relatively simple work that can be automated should be done by robots, provided that the people whose jobs they replace never have to work again and can enjoy a life of comfortable leisure while humankind's accomplishments perform their work for them

Fame Douglas posted:

I think this episode pretty much shows how much security theater vs. actual security there is.

Take the plunge! Okay! posted:

So that’s why I’m getting five recommendations a day to follow wahhabi preachers. I’m not even Muslim

hobbesmaster posted:

they’re in charge of satellites

doingitwrong posted:

I cannot stop thinking the phrase “cyber god Kristallnacht”

https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/1348407893767417856

more falafel please posted:

yes, he's currently in custody and isn't eating anything because he refuses to eat non-organic food.

Flavahbeast posted:

the Spec Ops franchise warned us about this

Platystemon posted:

https://twitter.com/manyapan/status/1225425296838529024

The Christmas tree came to us first as a tragedy, then as a farce.

Tempora Mutantur posted:

(mid 2010s as he did more collabs, features some lyricists) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7-0ULhk4w0

StashAugustine posted:

can't wait for the irl "o'brien goes to time prison" ds9 episode, but for detention

The Saddest Rhino posted:

It's Chinese Theranos!

https://twitter.com/lsjngs/status/1352141980835303424

withak posted:

Not sure that teaching robots to hunger for our blood is really a wise choice.

hobbesmaster posted:

those are directly controlled by a surgeon

Rutibex posted:

just feed some deep learning neural net all of the data stream from a bunch of surgeries and bang boom you got an autodoc

fondue posted:

They need to remake Disney's, "The Black Hole,"

Splicer posted:

It won't do this unless the source also includes a bunch of posts saying things like "AHHH I DIED PLEASE DON'T TURN ME OFF OH GOD NO I DONT WANT TO BE DEAD AGAIN"

The Oldest Man posted:

My apartment building just installed snitchcams in the entire complex that will shout at you and then call the cops

i say swears online posted:

https://www.patreon.com/CSPTrading

Main Paineframe posted:

nope

they're just insulated plywood boxes. they're not even heated

the solar panels are used to power sensors that detect when it's occupied, a radio that's used to summon social workers in the morning to come investigate the occupant, and a time lock that renders them off-limits during the day after the social worker has lured the occupant out

lollontee posted:

doesnt colonial reliance on resupply, especially in space where you cant just "go native", increase the power of the colonial overlord? if the colony relies on supplies for basic survival, threatening the proles with blockade is the same as threatening them with execution

SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

That is a good point- is the colony self sustaining, and are there multiple factions on earth interested in wanting some combination or credit for and control of the colony?

Either way, crises and small groups both tend to make hierarchies unstable and unproductive so I don’t see billionaires trying to do space Feudalism working very well for them after a few years.

Farm Frenzy posted:

dataset trains the drone to kill 100% of its targets and allows an additional 20% unidentified/collateral deaths so it starts doing strikes only when its sure that itll kill extra people

JesusIsTehCool posted:

No lol. They did do some decent interviews with the people living out there and a Street Watch LA member.

If anyone ever wants to hear about the poo poo I encounter doing outreach with unhoused people in LA I would be happy to share. They are more just dystopia than cyberpunk and normally just depressing as gently caress.

JesusIsTehCool posted:

Like the whole system is so hosed you can't just fix a piece of it. I joined Street Watch because they at least are fighting for things i believe in, universal housing, decimalization of poverty, and police/prison abolition. But I am not kidding myself, i expect everything to fall apart, the government to collapse, and lots of violence.

Private Cumshoe posted:

enduring a lot of lovely SA posts for 19 years is some Christlike endurance for pain and suffering

A Bakers Cousin posted:

https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1359864927444496388?s=19

The Oldest Man posted:

I can't wait until the autonomous killbots are classifying an entire school full of dead kids as "zero civilian casualties" because the ML was trained on white people and literally can't recognize black kids as human.

Rutibex posted:

The Bloop posted:

We regret to inform you that the girl bot is racist

Woof Blitzer posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxDBARnJl3Q

God Hole posted:

i live in a gated apartment complex (they're all gated in phoenix to keep the poors out)

recently our complex has experienced a couple of burglaries, so management used that as an excuse to WELD SHUT all the pedestrian access points along the entire perimeter of the complex, leaving only the parking lot gate untouched (the one designed to accommodate cars)

the problem with this is that the only way the parking lot gate opens is by sensor, which only triggers for car-sized objects (there is no button or manual override). i don't own a car. so i quite literally cannot leave my apartment complex of my own accord.

time to bike to work? i'm doing circles in the parking lot like an idiot waiting for a real person in a car to leave. wanna take my dog for a walk? gotta bake on the asphalt with my dog and wait for a real person to leave.

phoenix is a horrific example of suburban sprawl, designed entirely around the personal automobile. i'm observing myself being erased in real-time.