Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

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  1. Hakija

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    LIKE. A. BOSS.

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    Wow. That is really impressive.
     
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    'we really wanted it to fall to the right, but we cut the wrong side'
     
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    I bet they do suck at school...

    it's so obvious I feel horrible now.
     
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    That... kinda completely makes it a thousand times worse. So you've got this advanced space-faring civilization with almost their entire species clustered on this one ship, and he could've disabled it with like a Palm Pilot or an old Commodore 64 or a Speak & Spell or one of those digital cameras people have hacked so they play Doom since everything's backwards-compatible with alien spaceships and it never occurred to the aliens that they should change their friggin' Wi-Fi password.
     
    j.p., Sep 17, 2014
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    or that they could be hacked by a Mac. Fuck Apple
     
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    Working as intended.
     
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    http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/hacking-canon-pixma-printers-doomed-encryption/
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    Apparently the aliens in future as well are not immune to bad software and crappy government contracts.
    "Hey, government has ordered us to make a software for the Motherships and the Fleet, this means $$$"
    Later it is found out that the software was put together by alien equivalent of cheap indian techs in minimal amount of time while the execs kept the money for themselves. This would eventually lead to the destruction of the whole Mothership and Fleet.
     
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    Wait. so does that mean if the aliens call their own tech support they can't understand them either?
     
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    The reason they came to earth to pick on half monkeys because other aliens rofl stomped them.
     
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    Yea, who knows how many thousands of motherships they began with in their fleet. It's not as if you'll be stripping a whole planet from it's resources with a ship like that in a while. On the contrary, it would still take really long, considering that with advanced tech you can reach pretty deep in the mantle which is really rich with all sorts of resources.

    One thing that I keep wondering is why them aliens don't just go for the asteroid belt if they're serious about lots of minerals, there's water, oxygen and all sorts of platinum group metals all over those asteroids and it's a lot less effort to check which are good asteroids than go about digging a planet while burdened by the intense gravity and all the shit that it brings with it.

    Planets would make ideal places for rapid population growth though. Suddenly you have lots of space to build simply shacks and simply breed out like rabbits. Oceans make ideal places for growing all sorts of advanced shit to feel the new people.

    After all, space can be pretty hostile environment so nice planets make good safe havens.
     
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    because liquid water has deuterium in it. it is hydrogen with a neutron, but amazing for fusion fuel, it makes up 7% of all hydrogen on Earth most of it is dissolved into our oceans as D2O.
     
    XPHAku, Sep 17, 2014
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    Most of that water is from ancient asteroids. Deuterium-Tritium cycle is sort of pointless, your reactor (and ship) becomes radioactive due to neutron activation as most of the energy is spent on neutrons. Deuterium-Deuterium is nice that you get Tritium out of it and if you let the Tritium decay it becomes Helium-3 which can be fed back to reaction in which case it deals with the D-T secondary reaction issue. But D-D as well as Deuterium-Helium 3 both produce neutrons and if you have a big reactor then it produces a lot of neutrons which is kind of a PITA.

    Proton-Boron11 is better. 99.8% of hydrogen is Hydrogen-1 (protium) which is used for this reaction type. This is likely to be close to aneutronic reaction.

    I'm going to try this tonight and post the results.
     
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