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If we are to expand our civilization to other stars, we're going to need #FasterThanLight #FTL propulsion. And not just a little faster; a lot faster.

The alternative is decades of travel with zero chance of rescue if things go south, and no one in their right mind would sign up for that.

Generation ships are a non-starter.

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V.K. Farfalle 🦋 (He/Him)

I realized that all my #fantasy settings have something in common: they're all set across multiple worlds. Geography rarely matters.

#Shroompunk connects its Worlds-- bite-sized flat 'earths'-- by living #megadungeons called 'Warp Zones'.

#CosmicRangers is a #SpaceWestern with where local 'regions' of space are connected by hyperspace railways. #FTL and 'faster than FTL'.

#SDTJ2197 is set in San Diego-Tijuana in the year 2197. With Cultivation Realms and planar travel.

#TTRPG#AmWriting
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gary

@geerlingguy i think lots of people need more than your regular pihole setup - meaning setting up recursive dns using unbound and also dual pihole - it is easy to clone a vm and make a few changes, then you have failover/redundancy. pihole is great but it does need some care and feeding - a great product for IT consultants to proffer #g-man approved #ftl

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

@DrFlay

... politicians that were allowed to see the classified info were persuaded [ufo data is] real ... [and we] are not privy to [it.]

Real and unidentified, yes. Aerial navigation or other hazards, yes. Equipment or observational or human perceptual issues, yes. Unexplained... follows from being unidentified. Which is why the armed forces and civil navigation agencies must work to identify these things. Jumping to "they're extraterrestrial" is jumping to the most improbable answer, considering the mind-numbingly great distance and time necessary to travel between stars. I'm not saying no, I'm not saying impossible, but that no amount of wishing or trying to massage data to increase the probabilities is going to make it true. Belief for those not in the know is even more unfounded. Belief that affirmative information is being hidden derives from even less understanding and less data, and lots of confirmation bias, and people with axes to grind or money to make taking advantage of a level of gulliablity.

I am only deriding the belief and the idiocy of belief and the manipulation of belief for someone's gain. I'd welcome finding extraterrestrial civilization. Then I'd worry why they went to all that trouble. It would certainly disrupt our societies, especially considering rampant xenophobia we see everyday in the news. How the religious would react with humanity no longer the center of the universe would be interesting. The discovery would change... EVERYTHING.

PS: The wisdom of trusting politicians aside, let's not mischaracterizes the released data as somehow affirming extraterrestrial origins. Let's not mischaracterize that high speed or high energy phenomenon that is unidentified could also actually be being kept secret as it can release information about military assets and research, or other investigations. Reading between the lines in search of clues to secrets is assuming there are hints inserted there, intentionally, and that begs the question, why would information officers do that?

#sf#sciencefiction#ufo
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Tanys Foster

#gamedev #scifi #ftl #nerdalert
I've designed my scifi FTL engine and power plant and got my scientific terminology sorted. Here's a summary:

Power & sub-light
* Antimatter Catalytic Fusion Reactor
* Refined Deuterium Fuel
* Ion Propulsion Field Thrusters

Faster-than-light
* Boson Condenser
* Warp Medium (atomic gas)
* Super Fluid Dispersal System
* Distributed Field Generator
* Quantum Vortex Drive

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Sablebadger

I just released the Saurian Starhost Warfleets 3d models on My Mini Factory. myminifactory.com/object/3d-pr

Since I'm currently out of work, and would not mind a boost in sales, I thought I would also offer a discount on ALL my OPR fleets models. Use code: ONEPAGE25SPACE to get 25% off the price of any of the following sets: Battle Brothers, DAO Union, Human Defense Force, Alien Hives, and Saurian Starhost.

They print well on FDM and Resin.

myminifactory.com/.../collecti

Words: Saurian Starhost: Compatible with One Page Rules Warfleets. Patreon.com/sablebadger Photo is a close up of a bunch of 3d printed spaceships on a field of green cloth. The ships range in size, and have a vaguely Mayan theme to them.
#onepagerules#warfleets#ftl
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Feoh

Kind of amazing to me that Subset Games released #FTL 12 years ago and sometimes I feel like I'm still scratching the surface with that game.

But that's its genius IMO. You can be a casual player and very much enjoy a quick "how long can I stay alive?" sortie, or you can min/max it like a tabletop RPG monster and dive HOLY CRAP DEEP into the wiki and strategies etc.

I just wish it played better on #SteamDeck No fault of theirs, its controls just aren't well suited to a portable gaming platform like that.

Someone would need to sink some serious time into a custom control scheme I'd guess.

#gaming
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