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2013/03/08 10:33:42
Subject: Things from sci-fi you would love to see during your lifetime
What do you define a "ballistic knife" as? If you mean a knife that shoots the blade, those are totally available now (depending on your locality, they're pretty unlawful in the US).
Ballistic knives are lame, CO2 injection knives are where it's at.
Completely legal and available at the average dive shop from what I understand. Good enough for a great white, good enough for a thug.*
*I'm kidding. That's a terrible idea.
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
I'm really interested in what we could do outside this planet, but I don't think much will happen until the situation with resources and overpopulation becomes really desperate.
THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME. Just got to wait 20 years and survive WW3 over the moon. Beginning of the Imperium though???
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Baron, don't forget to talk about the SEALs and Marines you habitually beat up on 2 and 3 at a time, as you PM'd me about.
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2013/03/10 15:47:06
Subject: Things from sci-fi you would love to see during your lifetime
FTL, by any of the usual means, excepting those that subject humanity to warp demons.
FTL is our ticket to immortality and is the only technology that truly matters, with it we can handle all the other concerns, without it we are stuck here.
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I am certain that we are not.
Doesnt matter either way, we get out of the gravity cradle or suffer cot death.
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2013/03/10 15:53:54
Subject: Things from sci-fi you would love to see during your lifetime
Spaceports
inter-planetary mining and business
Robot workers (I, Robot style not the crazy ones though)
Not Possible
Interstellar travel (yeah... not happening anytime soon)
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2013/03/10 22:48:59
Subject: Things from sci-fi you would love to see during your lifetime
What do you define a "ballistic knife" as? If you mean a knife that shoots the blade, those are totally available now (depending on your locality, they're pretty unlawful in the US).
IIRC, if the blade is propelled with a gunpowder charge its legal. As an Any other Weapon.
So, gunpowder charge = legal. Spring loaded = Illegal.
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Would love to see a commercial space flight for none super human astronauts and none super rich celebrities, for people like you and me, and obviuosly space flight not in a can like the current program.
But to see that i assume we would need medical enhancements to life longer then we can now
2013/03/11 01:15:49
Subject: Things from sci-fi you would love to see during your lifetime
Grey Templar wrote: IIRC, if the blade is propelled with a gunpowder charge its legal. As an Any other Weapon.
So, gunpowder charge = legal. Spring loaded = Illegal.
Noooot exactly. There was an episode of Sons of Guns where he was commissioned to build one. They're both unlawful, but you can get a license for a gunpower propelled one just like you can for a fully automatic weapon
And, the one they made sucked, and I think he refused to sell it in the end.
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2013/03/11 01:44:22
Subject: Re:Things from sci-fi you would love to see during your lifetime
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Never saw that episode.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Grey Templar wrote: IIRC, if the blade is propelled with a gunpowder charge its legal. As an Any other Weapon.
So, gunpowder charge = legal. Spring loaded = Illegal.
Noooot exactly. There was an episode of Sons of Guns where he was commissioned to build one. They're both unlawful, but you can get a license for a gunpower propelled one just like you can for a fully automatic weapon
And, the one they made sucked, and I think he refused to sell it in the end.
That's what GT said basically, you don't need to be set up for Class III (automatic weapons) to own one, but you do need to have it registered as an "Any Other Weapon" under the National Firearms Act. I'm not shocked it sucked though, it's a stupid concept.
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I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
Rail Weaponry
Laser Weaponry
Power Armour
Some form of shielding
Gravity Modification
Space Elevators/Platforms
Limited Mars Terraformation
Thorium Nuclear Reactors
Fusion Reactors
H3 mining on the moon, then gas giants
a form of FTL
Bionic Limbs
Genetic modification
Holograms
All i believe are possible to a degree, however the timeframe for their development remains unclear.
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