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SciFi movies and pathetic misconceptions of tech failing for the story line.

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tggzzz:

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--- Quote from: tggzzz on March 17, 2023, 06:23:31 pm ---Plot line: a group of random political prisoners steal the most powerful fighter spaceship in the galaxy. Later they find an omniscient computer. Each episode they still manage to get themselves into scrapes with vastly inferior opposition forces.
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You're not watching it for the sophisticated plot, you're watching it for Paul Darrow and, for a lighter note, Michael Keating.  It also contains a lot of things that later became common in other series like longer story arcs rather than one-episode set pieces, the creators of several later series were big fans of Blake's 7.

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Surely you mean Jacqueline Pearce or Glynis Barber.

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Shameful! No mention of Sally Knyvette!

I should probably not mention I had a cat called Soolin...

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FTFY  >:D

Jacqueline Pierce embraced and even revealed in the reactions of young males to the character. Sally Knyvette grew to hate her "housewife" character.

Then there's Jan Chappell.

coppercone2:

--- Quote from: David Hess on May 03, 2023, 09:43:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppercone2 on May 03, 2023, 08:51:26 pm ---1) did you develop a good power distribution system for the 100 TW reactor on board?
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Even more important than the power distribution and reactor is how did you cool it?

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/heatrad.php

And I am quite sure that you are going to make things infinitely worse by insisting on your precious nuclear power reactors and megawatt laser cannons. Human bodies only make enough waste heat to kill everybody, reactors and lasers can make the entire freaking ship glow white-hot and vaporize.

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something quantum radiators

freeze ray related technology. I see the acoustic cooling being inspiration for whatever. Assumes ideal known radiator is highly inefficient antenna with bad VSWR. Because it kind of is, like a jumbled antenna pile or something, it radiates a little slowly and resonates internally or something. If heat is motion like a wave, and its stored, that would imply like a resonator behavior with decay due to leakage from antenna effectsish, like a LC super conductor that radiates at some frequencies.

David Hess:

--- Quote from: coppercone2 on May 03, 2023, 11:25:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: David Hess on May 03, 2023, 09:43:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppercone2 on May 03, 2023, 08:51:26 pm ---1) did you develop a good power distribution system for the 100 TW reactor on board?
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Even more important than the power distribution and reactor is how did you cool it?

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/heatrad.php

And I am quite sure that you are going to make things infinitely worse by insisting on your precious nuclear power reactors and megawatt laser cannons. Human bodies only make enough waste heat to kill everybody, reactors and lasers can make the entire freaking ship glow white-hot and vaporize.
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something quantum radiators

freeze ray related technology. I see the acoustic cooling being inspiration for whatever. Assumes ideal known radiator is highly inefficient antenna with bad VSWR. Because it kind of is, like a jumbled antenna pile or something, it radiates a little slowly and resonates internally or something. If heat is motion like a wave, and its stored, that would imply like a resonator behavior with decay due to leakage from antenna effectsish, like a LC super conductor that radiates at some frequencies.
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Or use a blackbody radiator.  The solution does not require handwavium.

The design of Discovery in 2001 originally included radiators, and the mounts were left on the model after the radiators were removed by Kubrick.  Niven's and Pournelle's stories sometimes included heat management.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 03, 2023, 02:27:23 pm ---B5 Rulez. Hope there's good news later today, and that the WGA strike doesn't get in the way.

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It seems it can't get in the way  :)

"New Babylon 5 animated movie is coming, creator confirms. J Michael Straczynski said the project is "already finished" and coming "very soon"."
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/babylon-5-animated-movie-confirmed-newsupdate/ and probably elsewhere.

AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 03, 2023, 09:45:15 pm ---Jacqueline Pierce embraced and even revealed in the reactions of young males to the character. Sally Knyvette grew to hate her "housewife" character.

Then there's Jan Chappell.

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Not quite sure what you mean by "housewife character". She had great wardrobe, had plenty of attitude, and kicked ass when required?

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