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Then absorb his DNA and quench our hunger!

10,000 people? Wow. This planet must be pretty small or watery.
((GM, if you say Yes, I'll shut up about population, although as a downside I'll use that information to my advantage later.))

Invade Cuba?

1.Your average solar pannel doesn't have the insulation nessecary to whistand a flare. Luckily the magnetosphere protects us, but sattelites are still often damaged by an errant flare. Most precise equipment is deactivated for that reason. It was a hyperbole to state the difference between large pannels taking the brunt of the blow (also, solar pannels aren't really secure from outside interference. The circuitry is pretty close to the outside.) and a shielded reactor near the middle of the ship

Okay then.

2. I was talking about the voyage to Mars. Hopped into the middle of the discussion here. However, if you're talking about supplying a Mars base with solar power, forget it. Mars has regular dust storms, which can reduce incoming light to 10-5% of normal volumes for months at a time. A robot might survive that*, a human won't. Also, can't dig in solar pannels.

Not on Mars. A near-Mars orbital, though...

3. Let's just say that the supplies of the elements required to make these pannels are more limited than thorium and uranium will most likely ever be. And unlike thorium/uranium, these rare earths have much more uses than solar pannels.

Also unlike the uranium, you don't need to constantly replace the solar panels. Presumably you can repair or recycle the damaged panels.

Quote from: greatorder on December 29, 2012, 04:08:05 pm

Are you suggesting we fly into mars's atmosphere on top of a huge paper aeroplane?

There is so much wrong with that, but it sounds ridiculously fun.

Probably not paper. But yeah, something similair. Though it's better for freight(don't know if you want to wait a month for reentry to complete), and shouldn't be used on Mars. Athmosphere is a bit too thin.

You could theoretically do the same thing, but no it isn't practical.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on December 29, 2012, 02:04:22 pm

Wouldn't it be easier to smelt the ores on Luna before launching them, or better--not launch them at all?

Because rail catapults DONT USE FUEL.  I explain shit to you and then it sails right through your head without interacting with the stuff in the middle.

Railguns do use energy, though. And energy isn't free. Oh, I'm sorry, ENERGY ISN'T FREE.

Nobody brought up orbital solar stations beaming energy to ground based stations yet? Bay12, I am dissapointed.

Pretty sure I mentioned it somewhere...
Before this post, I mean.

Of course, the prospect of a stray high energy microwave beam hitting your pressurised habitation isnt a nice one.

Well, I'm not sure if it would release the pressure, but yeah.


Anyways, in other news I have lost track of what we're arguing about right now.

What about the intentional causing of large numbers of battles? 

Depends. Why are you causing them?

Anyway. I thought I had said this somewhere, the 100 is representative. That's about equal to 100(00), so there's around a hundred thousand people in the world. Or were. Before disease and new races changed that.

So, there WERE 100,000 people? A bit on the low side, if they've spread out to the pole, but better. Certainly within reason for a game in which most of us are gods.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on December 29, 2012, 08:15:58 pm

Would you be willing to wait a turn or two for me to pay you back enough energy to replace it, with interest, instead?

The amount of interest I would charge would cause you to have to give up everything you had.  Actually, any interest rate would be that, due to how long ago it was.

Interest from when I stole it. Like, what I destroyed plus 25% or something.

It will if I do it right.