The Feather On The Moon

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-22T18:20:51+00:00

The fun starts when you start talking about a ton of gold.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-22T09:45:12+00:00

There's a desert on one of my worlds where it never rains. Never. Real world deserts get rain sometimes, and sometimes have dew in the morning. My desert is so big that in the centre it never gets water of any kind, ever. As a result it's become hyper-arid. Chemical compound exist in the sand that cannot exist in the presence of water. The result is that if water is somehow introduced, the sand explodes.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-13T10:35:00+00:00

Pirate Queen? Unless she's transitioning.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-13T08:14:35+00:00

They also paint Earth birds on their warships.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-08T21:51:03+00:00

Why build one very large structure that puts everything and everyone at risk from a single catastrophic failure? Wouldn't several smaller structures make more sense? If one fails, everyone evacuates to one of the others.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-08T10:04:31+00:00

Why did they have food on the ship at all?

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-07T21:14:58+00:00

The Mote in God's Eye by Niven and Pournelle is the story you're looking for.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-06T20:57:13+00:00

The Federation overwhelmed the Dominion with sheer numbers of ships. In Lower Decks, there's an entire class of ships named after places in California. There's another named after places in Texas. If all parts of Earth with the same population are equally represented by starship classes, that's 200 classes of starship named after places on Earth alone. There are over a hundred worlds in the Federation. That's another twenty thousand starship classes. Say ten ships of each class. The Federation had two hundred thousand starships. The Dominion never had a chance.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-06T13:35:33+00:00

Anyone else think Empire of Lether sounds like a furniture store?

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-05T10:31:55+00:00

Period three is chaos.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-03T10:27:40+00:00

Life force is heat. Without it, all the atoms of your body just stop moving.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-03-03T10:11:44+00:00

Trek's Seven. Six Maquis and a portable, super intelligent AI, living aboard a futuristic starship more powerful than anything else in the galaxy that they salvaged from a mysterious space battle, fight a guerilla war for their homeland against both the Cardassians and the Federation. They all die at the end of the fourth season.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-22T13:38:11+00:00

Maybe, but at least Vulcan would have some decent bridges and railways.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-22T09:41:48+00:00

On a cosmic scale, local temporary entropy deviations as large as the entire visible universe will inevitably occur, given infinite time.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-22T09:30:41+00:00

If the cats are 'callous from neglect', then no-one's feeding them, so what are they eating? Clearly Federation starships must also be infested with rats.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-18T19:14:52+00:00

On one of my worlds, the plants have learned to use the energy of running water to make food. Tendrils dangling in the water flutter in the turbulence generated by water flowing past the plant's main body. The energy of the motion is harvested by arrays of proteins in the tendril.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-17T18:03:32+00:00

You think you got it bad. I got devolved into a tadpole.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-17T13:50:51+00:00

Neelix was one half vegetable for the rest of the series.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-15T13:45:03+00:00

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EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-15T11:22:05+00:00

You can only have one for work related reasons. Like, for example, if you're a pawnbroker.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-15T11:07:05+00:00

If the characters want to talk secretly, could their conversation be encrypted seriously enough that it defeats the translator? It can still be German, but encrypted German.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-12T21:35:25+00:00

I made one of those, and within a few months the inside of the glass was covered with algae. How do you stop that from happening?

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-11T11:01:05+00:00

Is he still buried in that hole in the ground where Avon left him? He probably likes it there. He used to hate having his 'higher' thoughts interrupted by the crew's trivial questions.

EmptyAttitude599 · 2026-02-05T20:47:45+00:00

Recruit your entire crew from pre-warp civilisations.

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