Why are we consumers still fighting these damn flat cables? I hate them! Get rid of them! Oh, and I'd loved to have 8 drives without a mess of cables and add-ons or something.
The problem is that even if we can have 100k polys per frame, it's going to suck to see your marines run straight to gunfire, or just stand and watch while their friends get slaughtered because their fuzzy logic is too fuzzy to realize they could help. Those bastards are always out of the reaction range, even if it's just a few meters away. Frankly, AI has been too long neglected. I know AI can be pain in the ass to program, but I'd like someone to make a licensable AI engine, just like with GFX engines these days...
How about making a VERY powerful transmitter, or many of those, that are targeted toward nearby stars. I mean, heck, it's going to improve the aliens' chance of finding us via their own seti-system.
(warning: crap science approaching at warp 9.999)
how about scrapping the whole standard panzer idea, putting only the cover needed to protect from bullets, and put LOTS of anti-missile defences on it. After all, it could be the flying fortress, a defensive carrier that goes pot-shotting missiles from flight. Heck, isn't DARPA already drawing powerarmors and putting massive lasers on jumbo jets? Why not try to build a zeppelin based on the best modern technology, with rigid frame made of composite materials. Also, the whole balloon thingy could be made thick and rubbery below the light protective layering. How much passive protection would it need to withstand a salvo(4 or 8) of modern air-to-air missiles? How about outfitting a fission reactor on it, and giving ACTIVE thrust downward, imagine a massive jumpjet system used on harriers and on other similar short/vertical takeoff planes... a continual push upwards... a 500000 kg flying fortress would need 4905000 newton effective thrust to stay afloat. I'd imagine it creating massive heat below it, not to mention the amount of air it would circulate, it would make a fucking hurricane. Large fins would let it direct the thrust for movement... but, my point would be: Not for bombing, but carrying fighter planes, maybe drone fighter/interceptors.
I wonder if airships could be armored and outfitted to function as high altitude carriers, that are not waterbound? Crimson Skies used this idea extensively. Could it be possible to make a flying carrier? Jets could return to be rearmed and refueled, no need to fly back to the sea. How much lift would it need, for example, to have 3 or four meter thick advanced panzer? It could also have defence turrets and all that. And imagine it dropping bombs from WAAAAAAAAY above. Flak couldn't hurt it's heavily armored below. Okay, I'll stop dreaming, you keep on talkin'
TV-wars. No need to stage combat, we get to see some cool stuff on tv. Always against your favourite dictators. Saddam VS Bush Sr. Saddam VS Clinton. Saddam VS Bush Jr, maybe? It would be cool to see explosions again. We are all sick, don't deny seeing war flare up is cool. If it happens, enjoy it. "Saddam VS Bush Jr, now LIVE on NATO TV! Watch carefully how rockets blow up his palace, this is NATO TV!"
Zap junkies, exactly. People can become addicted to anything, and pain isn't that far fetched. Soon people will complain that "they need the zap"... they need the "morning zap" and the "after dinner zap", and the "gotta sleep, one more-zap" will be everyday phenomena... people will soon zap their genitalia, and play around with the power source, zapping all day long...:D
millions of years? Nope, more like 300000 years, and the latest 75000 years without significant genetic differences... cromagnon and neanderthal guys died out. Actually, Cro-Magnon could have been a better species(bigger brain IIRC)... dunno why it disappeared. Neanderthals, on the other hand, were almost like us, but had some bone differences, but their imagination, especially artistic imagination, was much weaker. They had tools and "jewelry", but what I know of, it was all copied from rival tribes of Homo Sapiens. Also, they were a bit bigger and thus, child birth was more difficult... uhhuh, now I'm giving fourth hand "IIRC" info, but this is what I "know"...
funny word play:
aryan(arja)-> orja, a finnish word meaning "slave"
slavic -> slaavi = slave
Maybe we all think ourselves superior and the name of the opposing people is linked to slavery...
Of course, this could mean nothing(99% propable)
Another one: Sami, the finnish original people, give the land a name, which could come from the word "suomaa"(swampland), not very different the modern "suomi"(Finland)... after all, we have lots of swamps... hehheh...
I wish NASA would get a massive budget and invent the damn thing, and refine it. Those X33s are 10x cheaper than the shuttles. I want to go to a space vacation before I die! Grrr, Grr! Bark Bark!
Let's Roid all our enemies cities! All your city are belong to US! Just joking. Well well... planet busters and nuclears weapons in space are illegal. So no doomsday weapons.
In Civ, millions are wiped out constantly, and we're not talking about some distant galaxy's distant planet. No, we're talking about genociding egyptians, americans, the french(good riddance), the mongols, over and over again. Sure, the numbers might be smaller, but in effect, it's eternal genocide game. When will they ban it? =)
Making a sentient being dead intentionally is murder, no matter what you call it. Unless that being actually wants to die. If an AI can fool us that he's not one, then he might as well pass for a living thing. Heck, G.W. passes for a sentient being, can't imagine a machine doing worse.
Aliens should be greeted with joy and given diplomatic immunity. Any such visitor should be granted a federal funded stay in exchange for improving the relations between two species. And no kicking them out like G.W did to russians. I'll bet that 10% of them were not guilty of spying! Oh, and they should be allowed to work at universities as professors. The gray would pass for some of them without students even noticing.
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Why are we consumers still fighting these damn flat cables? I hate them! Get rid of them! Oh, and I'd loved to have 8 drives without a mess of cables and add-ons or something.
The problem is that even if we can have 100k polys per frame, it's going to suck to see your marines run straight to gunfire, or just stand and watch while their friends get slaughtered because their fuzzy logic is too fuzzy to realize they could help. Those bastards are always out of the reaction range, even if it's just a few meters away. Frankly, AI has been too long neglected. I know AI can be pain in the ass to program, but I'd like someone to make a licensable AI engine, just like with GFX engines these days...
Maybe neutrinos like to fool around with scientists and their stuff. Quantum joking :D
Now I have mass, now I don't! Catch me while you can!
How about making a VERY powerful transmitter, or many of those, that are targeted toward nearby stars. I mean, heck, it's going to improve the aliens' chance of finding us via their own seti-system.
(warning: crap science approaching at warp 9.999)
how about scrapping the whole standard panzer idea, putting only the cover needed to protect from bullets, and put LOTS of anti-missile defences on it. After all, it could be the flying fortress, a defensive carrier that goes pot-shotting missiles from flight. Heck, isn't DARPA already drawing powerarmors and putting massive lasers on jumbo jets? Why not try to build a zeppelin based on the best modern technology, with rigid frame made of composite materials. Also, the whole balloon thingy could be made thick and rubbery below the light protective layering. How much passive protection would it need to withstand a salvo(4 or 8) of modern air-to-air missiles? How about outfitting a fission reactor on it, and giving ACTIVE thrust downward, imagine a massive jumpjet system used on harriers and on other similar short/vertical takeoff planes... a continual push upwards... a 500000 kg flying fortress would need 4905000 newton effective thrust to stay afloat. I'd imagine it creating massive heat below it, not to mention the amount of air it would circulate, it would make a fucking hurricane. Large fins would let it direct the thrust for movement... but, my point would be: Not for bombing, but carrying fighter planes, maybe drone fighter/interceptors.
I wonder if airships could be armored and outfitted to function as high altitude carriers, that are not waterbound? Crimson Skies used this idea extensively. Could it be possible to make a flying carrier? Jets could return to be rearmed and refueled, no need to fly back to the sea. How much lift would it need, for example, to have 3 or four meter thick advanced panzer? It could also have defence turrets and all that. And imagine it dropping bombs from WAAAAAAAAY above. Flak couldn't hurt it's heavily armored below. Okay, I'll stop dreaming, you keep on talkin'
TV-wars. No need to stage combat, we get to see some cool stuff on tv. Always against your favourite dictators. Saddam VS Bush Sr. Saddam VS Clinton. Saddam VS Bush Jr, maybe? It would be cool to see explosions again. We are all sick, don't deny seeing war flare up is cool. If it happens, enjoy it. "Saddam VS Bush Jr, now LIVE on NATO TV! Watch carefully how rockets blow up his palace, this is NATO TV!"
Sex and Death. It's harder and harder to shock the public. Watch Ulrika Johansson split the beaver :D
Zap junkies, exactly. People can become addicted to anything, and pain isn't that far fetched. Soon people will complain that "they need the zap"... they need the "morning zap" and the "after dinner zap", and the "gotta sleep, one more-zap" will be everyday phenomena... people will soon zap their genitalia, and play around with the power source, zapping all day long... :D
Hasta la victoria siempre! Revolution! :D
Well, seriously, though, this road will take us to corporate fascism.
millions of years? Nope, more like 300000 years, and the latest 75000 years without significant genetic differences... cromagnon and neanderthal guys died out. Actually, Cro-Magnon could have been a better species(bigger brain IIRC)... dunno why it disappeared. Neanderthals, on the other hand, were almost like us, but had some bone differences, but their imagination, especially artistic imagination, was much weaker. They had tools and "jewelry", but what I know of, it was all copied from rival tribes of Homo Sapiens. Also, they were a bit bigger and thus, child birth was more difficult... uhhuh, now I'm giving fourth hand "IIRC" info, but this is what I "know"...
funny word play:
aryan(arja)-> orja, a finnish word meaning "slave"
slavic -> slaavi = slave
Maybe we all think ourselves superior and the name of the opposing people is linked to slavery...
Of course, this could mean nothing(99% propable)
Another one: Sami, the finnish original people, give the land a name, which could come from the word "suomaa"(swampland), not very different the modern "suomi"(Finland)... after all, we have lots of swamps... hehheh...
I wish NASA would get a massive budget and invent the damn thing, and refine it. Those X33s are 10x cheaper than the shuttles. I want to go to a space vacation before I die! Grrr, Grr! Bark Bark!
Let's Roid all our enemies cities! All your city are belong to US! Just joking. Well well... planet busters and nuclears weapons in space are illegal. So no doomsday weapons.
will this information ever help mankind get of this crummy planet?
In Civ, millions are wiped out constantly, and we're not talking about some distant galaxy's distant planet. No, we're talking about genociding egyptians, americans, the french(good riddance), the mongols, over and over again. Sure, the numbers might be smaller, but in effect, it's eternal genocide game. When will they ban it? =)
Making a sentient being dead intentionally is murder, no matter what you call it. Unless that being actually wants to die. If an AI can fool us that he's not one, then he might as well pass for a living thing. Heck, G.W. passes for a sentient being, can't imagine a machine doing worse.
Aliens should be greeted with joy and given diplomatic immunity. Any such visitor should be granted a federal funded stay in exchange for improving the relations between two species. And no kicking them out like G.W did to russians. I'll bet that 10% of them were not guilty of spying! Oh, and they should be allowed to work at universities as professors. The gray would pass for some of them without students even noticing.