With the incredible pace of technological advancement what it is now, imagine what it could be in a century, or two, or four or.................
Take the ability to create and control artificial gravity fields, looking past the obvious ships internal DV compensation, what about using it in other ways? As a shield, for maneuvering within a solar system, as a weapon in its own right?
Or as Mr Niven is fond of, the ability to suppress atomic charge? Matter would simply drift apart in a cloud of unattached sub-molecular particles. That would ruin your day for sure.
As much as I hate to say it, the author of that piece is not thinking of what the tech level may, or may not, be if and when such events occur.
This is something that I've spent some time researching on and thinking about. I could bore you to tears blathering on and on about it, I'll just politely shut the hell up now.
Space/Science » in reply to re: "mitigating architecture"
re: "mitigating architecture", and Moore's Law
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- War in the Heavens.
- re: War in the Heavens.
- How do they afford all these battleships - isn't that kindof expensive? (n/t)
- Comparative costs
- So you've read SF by Alastair Reynolds? He writes about the possibility of xenocidal interstellar machines.
- Office of Home World Security
- Which begs the question of what exactly they are fighting over to make it worthwhile? (n/t)
- Comparative costs
- Not sure I agree with this guy