/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5320920
But you can't use a telescope, no matter how awesome, as a planetbuster if needs must.

I guess the work on the Casaba Howitzer scared some people too much.

After all, the Orion drive doesn't actually need to be even re-designed to utilize it as such, all you need is to carry some pellets designed to be used as the howitzer and then deploy them with the drive gun.

Remember the Kzinti Lesson:
"the more efficient a reaction drive is, the better a weapon it makes"

Pic... pretty fukken related.

First contact with extrasolar intellect?
I'm sure the experience will be an... educational one. For both sides. Pic related.

<3 Niven

My guess is that you need to consider the volume between electrodes.

Looking through them, he tried not to think about what he was about to do. He had reset the thermostat to lower the ship’s internal temperature to 50 degrees at midnight, and he had instructed the AI to ignore the artificial day-night cycle he had previously programmed. He had left a note in Captain Lee’s quarters, informing him that Eric Gunther was a saboteur and apologizing for having deprived the rest of the crew of rations and liquor. He would finish this bottle of champagne, though; no sense in letting it go to waste, and perhaps it would be easier to push the red button if he was drunk.

His life was over. There was nothing left for him. A few moments of agony would be a fair exchange for countless days of lonesome misery.

Gillis was still leafing through the photographs when he happened to glance up at the porthole, and it was at that moment when he noticed something peculiar: one of the stars was moving.

At first, he thought the champagne was getting to him. That, or it was a refraction of starlight caused by the tears which clung to the corners of his eyes. He returned his attention to a picture he had taken of his father shortly before he died. Then, almost reluctantly, he raised his head once more.

The window was filled with stars, all of them stationary . . . save one.

This is a demostration of the Kzinti lesson.

Using a fusion drive as a fusion laser HAHA GO SCIENCE.

someone needs to learn the kzinti lesson.