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Re: Space plane spends 15 months in orbit, mission still secret. How sure are you that a lot of this doesn't get run through me? I don't tell you everything.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster It's how I made my first million. Second one too come to think of it. It does actually. Thank you.

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon?

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Please, please, please tell me you did not just use "galaxy" and "universe" as if they were interchangeable.

Re: Space plane spends 15 months in orbit, mission still secret. How about saying what the mission was rather than just saying "you don't need to know."

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon? I did one point one post for the ease of anyone responding. More to the point, we don't want to store nuclear waste on the Moon because no transportation is 100% safe, imagine a Challenger-style accident with a cargo ship load of old control rods.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster No, definitely not the Milky Way, too small, spirals not pronounced enough, center bulge too big compared to the width of the disk.

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon? If we are ever going to be a multiplanet species, we need to start somewhere. The Moon is three days away, Mars nine months. Which would be better for our field test / prototype settlement?

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon? Environmental concerns. Your manufacturing process pollutes? Fix it so it doesn't, or move it outside the atmosphere.

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon? Quarantine. You want to experiment with nanotech that can cause a grey ooze situation if you get it wrong? Fine, put a quarter of a million miles, some hard radiation, and harder vacuum between us and you.

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon? So far every thing we know about biology in different gravities is from studying things (1) in Earth Normal gravity or (2) in Ziggy. We have absolutely no idea how humans will react to prolonged Moon or Mars gravity. A lunar base, we can study people, rotate them home quickly if problems develop. Mars gravity can be better simulated on the Moon or apparently the ISS, which is where I would have studied it but I wasn't asked.

Re: Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits? I would say more that people did (past tense) it a lot. Improved their own piece of ground that they intended their children and grandchildren to benefit from. How many vineyards and olive groves have been public works projects?

Re: Jokes The bad part is I remember a thirty year old movie well enough to get a joke, then spend half an hour looking for my car keys before I remember I'm not supposed to drive anymore.

Re: Jokes The bad part is that is a reference to a movie that came out over 30 years ago, and we got it!

Re: A REAL reboot of the JL Something about Piotor's Diastema made me want to throw things.

Re: Idunn, Goddess of Youth...Trolling for powers.

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works?

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works? Show me a demonstration-of-principle device* that produces energy at better than the breakeven level and I will be behind this 110%. Until that demonstration-of-principle device gets built, it's Bluesky. *I would prefer one that doesn't blow up, but that is not a deal breaker. There is a school of thought that if you don't destroy the prototype, you learn nothing.

Re: Street level versions of the classics I would use Force Wall, requires DEX roll. Same with Cap's Shield. They do seem to block some autofires and area effects with them. OTOH, there is an upper limit to what a force wall can block, not so much deflection and dodging.

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works? Wow, sinanju, dr. strangelove, and myself agreeing. Must be some weird star alignment, like a lunar eclipse and a transit of Venus happening in the same week.

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works? OK, I was thinking of "viable" as closer to "has achieved better-than break-even energy release under laboratory conditions." By your definition, antimatter is a viable energy source.

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works? Please define "viable" in this context.

Re: More space news! Not my first choice, but better than no humans on Mars at all.

Re: Does anyone ekse like People with Powers style games? Buffy's associates sometimes referred to themselves as the Scoobies, a comparison to the Scooby-Doo cast.

Re: Alternate Sexualities in Champions and Supers settings