In pursuit of waging this war, the Dutch would invent the stock holding company, laying the tracks for the running train that would become capitalism. The very function and idea of the monarch as the indisputable emissary of God Almighty would be fractured from the heat of the battles.

She has 100 of them arranged in four broadsides of 25 each...

Anyways, TL;DR on why railguns are bad and better technology will not make them viable:

- All that extra kinetic energy gets wasted on overpen, so the only advantage over normal guns is range
- Terrible barrel lifetimes make it expensive
- Missiles are just better anyways

just had the realization that the type of person who enjoys making ai art is someone who prioritizes it’s consumption, while those who dislikes ai art is someone who values the act of creating art

Girldick this, boydick that, I'm hunting MOBY Dick #not afab not amab im ahab and i need to kill this fucking whale

my other TTRPG opinion is

The Conquest of Space by David Lasser is from 1931. The premise reads as "space travel is possible guys, please stop laughing"

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

If you want to show off your afterburning engines, do it at night!
XB-1 footage from Boom Supersonic:
youtu.be/e1MULz4dssA

dockyard station making sure to put the slips for the sister ships its building at just the right angles to give them *excellent* views of eachothers hulls under construction.

This illustration shows the gas giant Saturn with some of its many satellites in front. In the foreground is Rhea, the second largest moon of this planet, after Titan. With a mean diameter of 1528 km (764 miles), Rhea is about half the size of our own Moon. Its surface is heavily cratered, with two very large impact basins and numerous fractures. Its density suggests it is made up of about one-quarter rock and three-quarters water ice. Four other Saturnian moons can be seen in the distance, close to the ring plane. From left to right they are Dione, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys.

An artist's impression of Charon as it might appear from the surface of Pluto. In this depiction, Charon's phase is new - i.e. the Sun is directly behind it. Therefore Charon is only visible by the faint sunlight that Pluto reflects onto it from the Sun. Because Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, they keep the same face towards each other at all times, as the Moon does to the Earth. So if one stood on Charon (or Pluto) the other world would stay fixed in the sky - never setting or rising, but still cycling through its phases. And if one were on the wrong hemisphere of Pluto (or Charon) one would never see the other world. The New Horizons probe recently revealed that Pluto has clouds in its atmosphere, as this illustration depicts.

Artwork of the Jovian moon Io, seen against the backdrop of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The latter is a vast, cyclonic storm - wider than the entire Earth - that has raged for centuries. Io, a highly volcanic world, is the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter.

Illustration of a coronal mass ejection emanating from the Sun. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. When a CME hits Earth, it can cause a geomagnetic storm which disrupts the planet’s magnetosphere, our radio transmissions and electrical power lines. They can damage artificial satellites and cause long-lasting power outages. Humans in orbit are also very vulnerable to these events, whose high-energy particles are not shield by typical spacecraft.

Time for a #spaceart showcase? Yeah, I thought so. I created these with various software, mostly #Blender, #photoshop and #3dsmax

#SciArt

Did you know that there are 113 games tagged "mecha" released this year alone on steam that DON'T have a big "AI GENERATED DISCLOSURE" sticker?

Here's a thread of 10 awesome mech-related games from THIS YEAR that DON'T use genai, and instead stick to good ol fashioned fictional evil robots!

ARACHNE is supposed to demonstrate an all-in-one solar panel, RF generator and antenna module in orbit for space-based solar power beaming in GEO.
The launch is still scheduled for 2025...
space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ara...

The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging - Reactor Some people will tell you that world-class fame is better than living to a contented old age. Other people disagree. One of those other people might possibly be the protagonist of this tale by Harry T...

hence this Turtledove short. reactormag.com/the-eighth-g...

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

I am always saying this

A Rhean warcraft accelerates over Saturn

A competition space fighter accelerates towards a target

Titanian frakters burn to make an intercept

A beam riding freighter accelerates in the Saturnian system.

Thrust Thursday

#hibourverse #spaceship #scifi

The Vyrian Long Range Expeditionary Forces rely on two warships - the Class 794 Light Cruiser and the Class 699 Heavy Frigate. Operating together in cruiser groups, these vessels complement each other. In the images, we can see the Cruiser Morroq and Frigate Sava #spaceshipaday

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

A spaceship consisting of a central spindle and a ring with six inflatable modules attached.

Lunar Liner, sometime in the 2100s. The whole ship would spin around its axis to provide some artificial gravity to the six inflatable passenger modules. The ship would be boosted via space tug to the moon, then return to pick up more passengers before being boosted again.

thinks about the 17th century war hammer with 5 wheellock barrels embedded in the head

I FINALLY FOUND IT

"my ship, who has been out of comms range for 3 months and presumed dead, texted me this: [Image of MDF Menara Suci] "I lived bitch"

Four image comic of Calvin and Hobbes. On top left, Calvin's father saying to Calvin: "Playing male fantasies? I'll show you something interesting." On top right, Calvin's father saying to Calvin: "the two types of male fantasy are emotional death and fishing. all fantasies fall into these two categories. weeping in your lover's arms? emotional death. digging a big hole? fishing" Calvin: "Yeah..." On bottom left, Calvin's father continuing: "Heroic last stand? emotional death. Boy's bathroom choir? Fishing. Although it frequently features peaceful contemplation of natural beauty, Frodo's quest to mordor was actually an emotional death. ANd despite featuring death, suffocating as your lover sits on your face is actually fishing." Calvin on bottom right staring at horror into the neverending darkness.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

Of course women don't like the cybertruck.

They much prefer a 100 million-ton first rate, carrying triple decks of carronades, light and heavy long guns.

Top-down angled view of Elpida, a 50 million-ton light whaler. Taken sometime in 2867.

She sails

I am of the opinion that in many ways tall ships are a kind of maid

As Bluesky becomes the "New Twitter" (positive) and the "New Twitter" (derogatory), just keep in mind that one day in the future this administration is going to so something terrible related to this place and the Bluesky Leadership Team is ABSOLUTELY going to fully cooperate and fuck people over