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Post #AdubAK47qk9gR7iPrM by [email protected] |
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In Portal, using the portal gun to get to the moon is the obvious space travel … |
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Post #AdubMM7S2Y4kHT0bc8 by [email protected] |
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I'd do the math on how much thrust you'd get out of sticking one portal… |
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Post #AdubZwMSbWNoRqVTuK by [email protected] |
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And that's just thinking about a static arrangement of portals. You could a… |
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Post #AducqgZMffVKLc5ioS by [email protected] |
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If you could make portals bigger you could also have a fun setup where you buil… |
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Post #AducqjFchWUmfFsUxU by [email protected] |
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Anyway the lazy, boring way to use a portal and pretend you aren't violatin… |
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Post #Aducqk0PtXvT0NlrtY by [email protected] |
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BTW, as a variant on the kzinti lesson, the portals are extremely dangerous as … |
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Post #AducqklZ4FdjMbpWNs by [email protected] |
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This isn't a ship-destroying weapon, this is a civilization-ender if not pl… |
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Post #AducqlWMGH4PhjitJw by [email protected] |
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You can also make it bigger by not using a roughly round rock and instead using… |
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Post #AdugpBMhbNGb62huO8 by [email protected] |
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Like, the worked example from Atomic Rockets has 7 kilograms of cat litter movi… |
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Post #AdugpBRJKEx9KKraZU by [email protected] |
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But yeah this is the ultimate doomsday weapon. You can accelerate indefinitely … |
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Post #AdugpBVZ4QM7XWqzCa by [email protected] |
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Sir Isaac Newton may be the deadliest son of a bitch in space, but the deadlies… |
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Post #AdugpBZSpvTVjcg6HQ by [email protected] |
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The Nihilanth could teleport an entire army to earth, the combine can conquer a… |
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Post #AdugpBdia6sTwofUuW by [email protected] |
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Alternate ending to Half Life Alyx where it turns out the scary thing the Combi… |
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Post #AdugpBiKIyZ2B6pB5s by [email protected] |
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There's also the gravity interaction: an infinitely falling object that nev… |
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Post #AdugpBma39y0OIoZiy by [email protected] |
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It would be a very Cave Johnson thing to try to fix global warming by pushing t… |
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Post #AdugpBqpnLMybUnyM4 by [email protected] |
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The only thing more Cave Johnson would be using relativistic weapons to blow up… |
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Post #AdugpBuNaACmmUSnse by [email protected] |
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The lab boys tell me that if you dump enough iron into a star, it'll turn o… |
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Post #Adupj9KV9jcUdKsNA8 by [email protected] |
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@foone wouldn't this get... Mildly more interesting... With the planet rota… |
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Post #Adupj9P6sbJ2rd23LU by [email protected] |
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@swift oh yeah. But a nice thing about portals is that you can turn them off/mo… |
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Post #Adur3hXDn8owSsBnXs by [email protected] |
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Portal 2 does establish that the portal-placing shot moves at the speed of ligh… |
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Post #Adur3knzdF1Ebl3jbU by [email protected] |
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Maybe not one that lets you trivially violate causality but with moving portals… |
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Post #Adur3lZqlJIf0BRxCK by [email protected] |
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Anyway once you're flying around the universe with your FTL portal-rockets … |
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Post #Adur3mMPqk9FQoAjtg by [email protected] |
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And what if you put one end on an enemy planet and the other end in low orbit a… |
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Post #Adur3n8ywAzprQtWb2 by [email protected] |
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my guess based on how big supernovas are (bigger than that. no matter how much … |
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Post #Adur3nvY1bqQI3cJIO by [email protected] |
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anyway so there's a point in Portal 2 where you fire a portal at a surface … |
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Post #Adur3ohl8MPQhaAoRU by [email protected] |
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like, in the game's specific scenario, the distinction is irrelevant, but t… |
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Post #Adur3pTyF6yR76jJaa by [email protected] |
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anyway the fact the aperture science facility extended so deep underground in p… |
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Post #AdutJrZ8SrnW7Hv20G by [email protected] |
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@foone Yes, but if everyone built 1g torchships pretty soon there'd be no o… |
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Post #AdutJrd2EMuuJNk956 by [email protected] |
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@cstross yeah!Or there's that possibility that Europa has more ocean water … |
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Post #AdutJuPJtojEviLjcW by [email protected] |
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@cstross (I did think about jupiter more seriously but the problem is that you&… |
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Post #AduuYq4gOITHn1NbhA by [email protected] |
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@foone I don't think mass exiting through a portal imparts any thrust to th… |
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Post #AduuYqqBXgT8ALbXjk by [email protected] |
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@foone and I mean, you can just turn the portal around and use the water to pus… |
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Post #AduvcHOpM0BRML0Tqa by [email protected] |
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@f4grx yep! It does. |
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Post #AduxvxUVHZhZJYAnR2 by [email protected] |
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@foone You just so happened to catch me while I had enough gunk in my throat to… |
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Post #AduxvxYl1l6XWkAC48 by [email protected] |
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@DotMaetrix awesome! |
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Post #AduyZieJsnDIroiwSm by [email protected] |
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@foone I seem to recall Larry Niven played with this stuff in his teleportation… |
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Post #AduyZlgYavmmHcnGro by [email protected] |
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@cstross @foone Peter F. Hamilton also uses the idea in a lot of various ways i… |
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Post #AduyZllAJnTKVuwx3A by [email protected] |
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@abursey @foone A portal gun (with the other end of the portal inside the photo… |
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Post #AduyZnOCGAHtZGDdWi by [email protected] |
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@cstross @foone @abursey Backblast might make it a weapon of last resort, thoug… |
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Post #AduyZnSS0LgrmSD29o by [email protected] |
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@lispi314 @abursey @cstross true, but the fun part of a portal-ship is that the… |
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Post #Adv0FTWyaCiQ5vlPdo by [email protected] |
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@foone Deceleration may be An Issue |
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Post #Adv0FTbaJ4OyKDv5pA by [email protected] |
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@EveOfTheFuture who needs to decelerate? you get close enough, open a portal to… |
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Post #Adv1Qol26Qhv4GJLKi by [email protected] |
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@foone You could build a free energy machine. Which, generally, is a problem. |
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Post #Adv1QopdpIOTIYT1W4 by [email protected] |
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@Leszek_Karlik yeah! whenever you have a machine that can create infinite energ… |
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Post #Adv29TUo041C9n0yyO by [email protected] |
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@cstross @foone As long as you only use it sparingly, climate change induced oc… |
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Post #Adv29TZPivhkO5Af9k by [email protected] |
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@adehnert @cstross unfortunately the Half Life universe has the oceans already … |
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Post #Adv553bScseGYYiGLg by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] the gamma rays are gonna be mostly negligible when you get… |
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Post #Adv553g4LkKomqrwX2 by [email protected] |
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@susul I was thinking that the portal would be very short-lived, because the su… |
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Post #Adv5QhjKd8Kz5aiUvw by [email protected] |
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@foone @cstross Don’t drain Europa! It will anger the hyperintelligent squid … |
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Post #Adv5QhnwM01XJssB7I by [email protected] |
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@michaelgemar @cstross that just provides an episode for our Torchship Explorer… |
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Post #Adv6m7WO2B5v7ARBoG by [email protected] |
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@foone probably the best pitch for Portal 3 so far |
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@rolenthedeep valve's got my resume, they're welcome to hire me anytime… |
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@foone ...How fast does the portal itself travel? You could slam one on the moo… |
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Post #Adv76Mc7d8NhiNlzUG by [email protected] |
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@EveOfTheFuture from the end of Portal 2, it seems that the portal-creation-eve… |
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Post #AdvCfiPj4N6LEUeQtc by [email protected] |
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@cstross @foone I seem to recall Jupiter is the reason we only have planet dest… |
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Post #AdvCfiTyoYVJRgdpWi by [email protected] |
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@StompyRobot @cstross planet destroying asteroids are the kind of thing that on… |
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Post #AdvInGZH5F2eua6Kq8 by [email protected] |
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@cstross @foone most of the water harvested from Jupiter would be burned gettin… |
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Post #AdvInGdso6jD8sG11U by [email protected] |
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@aethylred @cstross not if you've got portals! you can harvest remass from … |
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Post #AwfWaGESdB4X5QogqG by [email protected] |
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@foone thread a rope with a weight through two vertical portals so the rope is … |
