tkdguy Posted November 19, 2018 Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 This thread is similar to the Random Links thread in the NGD. It's for scifi-related videos, articles, pictures, etc. for topics that don't quite fit anywhere in the threads here. If you find something interesting but don't really want to start a new discussion about the topic, feel free to post it here. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted November 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 I seriously doubt our technology will be this advanced like this in 2050, but you may find a use for this in your game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 Here is one person's POV on alien spacecraft. Agree or disagree? Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 This is for those of us who prefer slug throwers to beams in our SF games. archer and Duke Bushido 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted November 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Robots, anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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L. Marcus Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 I've been surfing the Orion's Arm web project lately. Rather fascinating -- a hard sci-fi space opera setting, set about 10.000 years in the future. The Singularity has come and gone -- and done the same about five times over. Humanity's descendants -- both genetically and culturally -- are mostly ruled over by these S6 archailects who are almost at Clarkeian levels of technology. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 Those of you who played Star Frontiers will remember gyrojet pistols and rifles. Here they are in action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2019 Here's a character generator for Classic Traveller. Refresh the page to create another character. https://devilghost.com/software/travellercharacter/ Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Not a link, but I can't see a better place for it. The Exoplanet Handbook (2nd edition) by Michael Perryman from Cambridge U Press, (c) 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-41977-2. Just over 950 pages of tiny print making a monumental, massive heavy-duty technical reference book at the apex of that genre's glory. I think around $100? $120? from the publisher (I bought mine at a steep discount at a scientific meeting early this month). The last 185 pages are references. The last 62 before that are a list of exoplanet systems, sorted by detection type, with comments that range from five words of reference to more than half a page. Though like any print book it will go out of date in terms of the data in it, it is graduate-level in discussions of detection techniques (chapters 2 through 7), host stars, brown dwarfs and free-floating planets, formation theory and observations, interior and atmosphere modeling, and our Solar System through the same considerations. Then two short appendices before the exoplanet list already mentioned. For the professionals and their libraries; for that price it's worth trying to wheedle your library into getting a copy. It'll be a difficult read, but hard-core science (and sci-fi) geeks will have lots of nuggets they can glean from this. tkdguy and Lawnmower Boy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2019 Perhaps your PCs will visit one of these planets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 13, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2019 Robots delivering your stuff: Will this idea take off? https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18220287/nuro-robot-delivery-softbank-investment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted May 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2019 On the lighter side of things, here's a guide to Explaining US Holidays to Extraterrestrials Lawnmower Boy and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2019 What will your astronauts eat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted July 7, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2019 Useful information if you're running a near future, hard science campaign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2019 Here are a couple of short videos about space combat in The Expanse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2019 While we're on the subject of space combat, here are the types of warships you may encounter in a film or game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 Crossover fan film. There's something extra after the end of the credits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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