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In today's recommendations, I should like to draw y'all's attention to The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor, over at A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry. Why? Well, apart from being interesting in its own right, it is one of the latest and best posts whose
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Early in the development of kinetic barrier technology, engineers found themselves stymied by an inability to project kinetic barriers. While they could create them, they were limited to doing so along the plane of a conductor. While fringe emission lobes did exist along the surface, these were inadequate to provide
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To begin our discussion of protective technologies, notionally, there are four types of shielding: * particle shielding; * ray shielding; * gravity shielding; * irreality shielding. Particle & Ray Shielding The most important and most common of these, of course, are the first two: particle shielding and ray shielding. Naturally, both of these are
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So, I gather more’n a few laser fans are coming to visit these days, so just to save time, here’s the canonical reason that lasers are the ‘verse’s secondary weapons system, not its primary one: (It turns out that this is really a recapitulation of points raised