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What happens if a very heavy impact hits a person's Holtzmann shield?
The basic purpose of a personal shield is that it's bulletproof, transferring so little impact to the wearer that unlike modern body armour, the wearer isn't even knocked back or winded.
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Do Babylon 5 Starfuries shoot out radially?
I was rewatching some good old Babylon 5 episodes at the weekend and realised something I never thought about before.
It looks like the Starfuries shoot out radially from Cobra Bays at launch, like ...
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Peter F. Hamilton Night's Dawn: Zero-Tau technology
I am in the process of reading the Night's Dawn trilogy by Hamilton. I think we can consider it hard sci-fi, since the explanations provided are quite plausible for all the technical and scientific ...
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Do multiple warp fields stack?
Warp cores use a huge amount of energy to create a warp field, and then a comparatively lesser amount of energy to maintain it. At warp 1, this is 20 gigajoules and 200 megajoules, respectively. Is it ...
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How was the messaging system in The Arrows of Time (Orthogonal #3, by Greg Egan) supposed to work?
In particular, why didn't messages being relayed from the future use up bandwidth and prevent new messages from being sent back?
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