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Postby Gallia- » Sun Oct 24, 2021 10:43 pm

Gonswanza wrote:Regardless, it falls back to the question of "should we even have an entirely automated army, navy and air force?"


lol

The future "soldier" is a mechanic who fixes the combat machines that fight the enemy themselves.

86 but unironic robots instead of Untermensch.
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Postby Dtn » Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:37 am

everybody knows commanders and soldiers are kantian moral agents and not effectively inhuman

who will take responsibility for the bad robots when they kill pistachio farmers based on flawed pattern recognition :(
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Postby Gallia- » Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:53 am

Yes, a very serious quandary, which is probably why higher leadership will insulate themselves from blame by keeping men in the loop.

It will also help if the ATR performs less than adequately like the Longbow did in 2003.

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Postby Gonswanza » Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:26 am

Oh yea this reminded me of clone soldiers. The problems there are more comedic, assuming this is a sci-fi world where you can make vat babies by the hour to remove the glaring problem of needing a living mother and later raising the child to adulthood.

Per my own words, plus what little I know of the process, mutations can and will occur. These will be exagurrated if they are not taken care of, assuming genetic material is cycled (taken first from a donor for [n] batches, then randomly selected from a clone donor and modified slightly for [n] batches). If not, mutations will STILL occur due to obvious errors in genetic coding and replication.

Then theres the fact that you need to train them, by any means. It would be easier to grab and train willing people instead, given that again they wont suffer from glaring genetic defects that may be exagurrated due to technology being used to replicate genetic material.

Finally, they are still human. They will be prone to errors under stress. Even more so with little exposure to daily life unless they were somehow brainwashed. In case of the latter, they may be more zombie-like instead, better suited for slow, almost redundant tasks.
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Postby A Billion Stars » Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:33 pm

who cares
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Postby Inner Planets » Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:22 pm

A Billion Stars wrote:who cares

what
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Postby Gonswanza » Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:24 pm

Inner Planets wrote:
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what

Its spam, let it pass...
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Postby A Billion Stars » Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:57 pm

No, literally who cares

Clones are either a literary device used as a social critique or to explore the concept of personal identity or a dumb NS grimdark meme like salted bombs and 25-90% defense budgets.

Nobody cares about genetic errors or whatever.
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Postby Cossack Peoples » Tue Oct 26, 2021 1:57 pm

Even if you have the clones suffer through endless growth pains during their studies and training to produce a crop quicker than training a human child soldier (a la George Lucas), they still won't have the experience and training that a factory settings brass-balled human professional would have. Clones, IMHO, would only be used if a civilization either had a very developed human trafficking industry that has evolved beyond the need to kidnap naive tourists and combat Liam Neeson, or, if the civilization does not have the genetic diversity to sustain casualties which puts them on pretty shaky foundations to be fighting a war, interstellar or otherwise, in the first place.

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Postby Hurtful Thoughts » Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:11 pm

Cossack Peoples wrote:Even if you have the clones suffer through endless growth pains during their studies and training to produce a crop quicker than training a human child soldier (a la George Lucas), they still won't have the experience and training that a factory settings brass-balled human professional would have. Clones, IMHO, would only be used if a civilization either had a very developed human trafficking industry that has evolved beyond the need to kidnap naive tourists and combat Liam Neeson, or, if the civilization does not have the genetic diversity to sustain casualties which puts them on pretty shaky foundations to be fighting a war, interstellar or otherwise, in the first place.

iirc, Lucas was implying more of the latter than the former, although the reality was the Jedi order was more the former than the latter.
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Postby Gonswanza » Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:12 pm

Cossack Peoples wrote:Even if you have the clones suffer through endless growth pains during their studies and training to produce a crop quicker than training a human child soldier (a la George Lucas), they still won't have the experience and training that a factory settings brass-balled human professional would have. Clones, IMHO, would only be used if a civilization either had a very developed human trafficking industry that has evolved beyond the need to kidnap naive tourists and combat Liam Neeson, or, if the civilization does not have the genetic diversity to sustain casualties which puts them on pretty shaky foundations to be fighting a war, interstellar or otherwise, in the first place.

Indeed. Overall, it's far more impractical than sending in humanoid drones, which has it's own complications but overall is a better solution to the same problem...

... Dodging around the obvious solution of just "use the population and train them!"
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Postby Austrasien » Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:40 pm

Gonswanza wrote:
Cossack Peoples wrote:Even if you have the clones suffer through endless growth pains during their studies and training to produce a crop quicker than training a human child soldier (a la George Lucas), they still won't have the experience and training that a factory settings brass-balled human professional would have. Clones, IMHO, would only be used if a civilization either had a very developed human trafficking industry that has evolved beyond the need to kidnap naive tourists and combat Liam Neeson, or, if the civilization does not have the genetic diversity to sustain casualties which puts them on pretty shaky foundations to be fighting a war, interstellar or otherwise, in the first place.

Indeed. Overall, it's far more impractical than sending in humanoid drones, which has it's own complications but overall is a better solution to the same problem...

... Dodging around the obvious solution of just "use the population and train them!"


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Postby Dtn » Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:22 pm

Austrasien wrote:
Gonswanza wrote:Indeed. Overall, it's far more impractical than sending in humanoid drones, which has it's own complications but overall is a better solution to the same problem...

... Dodging around the obvious solution of just "use the population and train them!"


Are psychics more powerful than sorcerers?

It is a literary question.


Rick Deckard should have had a climactic battle with a malfunctioning washing machine because a vat-grown genetic underclass is impractical.

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Postby Gonswanza » Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:11 pm

Dtn wrote:
Austrasien wrote:
Are psychics more powerful than sorcerers?

It is a literary question.


Rick Deckard should have had a climactic battle with a malfunctioning washing machine because a vat-grown genetic underclass is impractical.

I'd pay with my left kidney to watch that
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Postby Austria-Bohemia-Hungary » Fri Oct 29, 2021 3:00 pm

Consider:
A metallic hydrogen powered torpedo.

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Postby Gallia- » Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:11 pm

There are better solid fuels. Like lithium. Or uranium.

Metastable metallic hydrogen would be nice for a space rocket though.
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Postby Kassaran » Fri Oct 29, 2021 7:23 pm

At what stages did nations of the world start seeing standardized logistics vehicles and transportation standards such as ball-hitches of specified < G I R T H > and whatnot? I've recently been playing a lot of Snowrunner and the ideas of adapting games like it to the WW2 setting for redball and being a poor shitter on the Ho Chi Minh have just gotten me thinking more and more as to the aspects of military logistics trains.

I'm kind of getting the feeling that most of this standardization, as most things military and logistics-related in this world, came about in the cold War due to the then large need to ensure the USN and it's cargo could reach any corner of the globe and reliably work there for 'x' amount of time.
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Postby Dtn » Fri Oct 29, 2021 9:20 pm

Militaries don't use ball hitches but the NATO hitch was adopted in the early 60s.

Whether a civilian or other military pintle hitch will be compatible is hit or miss, and trailer connectors most likely not.

I suspect standardization, containerization, etc, had more to do with reducing transaction costs in increasingly nationalized and then globalized markets rather than the USN since military standards are kind of a mess.
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Postby Austrasien » Sat Oct 30, 2021 5:55 am

Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:Consider:
A metallic hydrogen powered torpedo.


I think you'd get more power density out of an oxygen-aluminum or oxygen-boron powerplant in a torpedo. Hydrogen-oxygen combustion produces water and this will have to be exhausted against backpressure. A boron-oxygen (or oxygen-aluminum, oxygen most metals) burner will produce solid boron oxide, it does not increase pressure, and so will function equally well at all depths. Since this is an external combustion engine you'd need something like a stirling engine to drive the propeller.
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Postby Gallia- » Sat Oct 30, 2021 6:04 am

For real life examples there's Mk50 that uses that fancy lithium solid fuel for equal performance at all depths but it's not particularly futuristic I suppose since it was conceived in the early 80's.

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Postby The Technocratic Syndicalists » Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:42 am

Stirling engines have a fairly poor power density and so are a poor choice for a torpedo, you want a closed rankine-cycle system like HYDROX which combines wakeless operation and depth independent performance with a power density several times higher than that of an open cycle otto fuel II engine. The steam produced by the hydrogen-oxygen combustion doesn't have to be exhausted against backpressure, it can be condensed back into water (the condenser being built into the structural pressure hull of the torpedo) and recycled back into the boiler/combustor. Which is also how SCEPS/ADSCEPS works, although HYDROX has a higher power density because it uses an aluminum/lithium-seawater vortex combustor to produce steam and hydrogen gas (which is then reacted with oxygen produced by a lithium perchlorate fuel cell) rather than using a boiler. 100 knot, 100+ km range meme torpedoes here we come. RIP Bozo to all surface ships.
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