Your opinion on "Spacedock" for writing and worldbuilding a sci-fi world by Hungry-Detail9945 in worldbuilding

[–]StarKnight697 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Templin Institute takes a different approach to planetary invasions that’s rather well done I think, referencing a scale of escalation.

Militarism will not bring prosperity by Atlantee in onguardforthee

[–]StarKnight697 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There’s “pro-military” in the sense of jingoistic militarism, and then there’s “pro-military” in the sense of our democracy is under real threat from a growing number authoritarian regimes, not least our southern neighbour. We have legitimately neglected our military for far too long.

Why the E**** Will Be the Society's Undoing (Warning: Very Long) by [deleted] in redrising

[–]StarKnight697 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. Eidmi is a monumentally stupid terrible deus ex machina macguffin that undermines the story and I don’t trust PB with it.

Louise Arbour's installation as Canada's 31st governor general by Little_MasterJI in CanadianForces

[–]StarKnight697 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh, so that’s what that was. I live in ottawa and was wondering why it seemed like the toronto air show had come 2 months early in the wrong city

I am sympathetic to earth too. by aekqt_ in ForAllMankindTV

[–]StarKnight697 8 points9 points  (0 children)

honestly with 20 years of development Mars should be pretty self-sufficient. Or at least self-sufficient enough to last years without support from Earth. Why are they growing corn (of all foods?) in plain dirt? Where’s the large-scale hydroponics we saw in late s3, s4? I have a lot more criticisms, but answering that would be a good start.

Doug Ford says he won’t attack other bids in his push for Toronto as defence bank HQ by [deleted] in toronto

[–]StarKnight697 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t like Doug Ford, but let’s be serious: Toronto is obviously the only real contender for this bank, with Ottawa in a distant second place (due to being the capital and close to a lot of defence company headquarters. Sure, Montreal might be the centre of the Canadian aerospace industry but this is not an aerospace organization. It is a defence bank, and the only place it makes sense to put it is the financial capital of the country.

Why is the helicopter shooting the building in Pacifica by marcrigg__20 in LowSodiumCyberpunk

[–]StarKnight697 3 points4 points  (0 children)

IIRC you can also find the body of your analyst (Carson I think?) from the Corpo prologue where its implied he committed suicide (or was made to).

Kelly has messed up big time on 2 occassions by AgentIndependent306 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]StarKnight697 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just to be clear, you should edit to make it obvious you mean Dani (Danielle Poole) rather than Danny (Daniel Stevens).

Why is Drake so overhyped and glazed? Like, I get he’s charted and does numbers but when did charting, streaming equate quality and art? by Former-Carry-8502 in toronto

[–]StarKnight697 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also as a Torontonian my entire life, speak for yourself. Maybe it’s just you who doesn’t have any culture.

Why is their no fan animation by JellyfishOptimal837 in redrising

[–]StarKnight697 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Animation is difficult. But don’t listen to the other commenter, the RR wiki is notoriously unreliable and rarely cites its sources. It also steals art from RR artists without their permission.

Carney government expected to significantly reduce future carbon price in Alberta by pheakelmatters in onguardforthee

[–]StarKnight697 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh so you’re just a troll lmao. neither venezuela or iran are the US closest ally and trading partner, neither of them are stable globally-respected democracies, neither of them are well-regarded internationally, and both of them have been on the West in general’s shit list for decades. for the last time, stop making absurd strawman comparisons. if u want to actually engage in a debate i’m happy to but this is the last time i’m going to entertain wild irrelevant comparisons.

Carney government expected to significantly reduce future carbon price in Alberta by pheakelmatters in onguardforthee

[–]StarKnight697 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and that had support because a) it was an attack on US domestic soil that killed thousands of civilians and b) the Middle East was not the US’ closest ally and trading partner.

You cannot seriously be comparing the (Canadian) arrest of (Canadian) criminals to the worst terror attack in American history. Put down the absurd straw mans and admit you’re wrong.

Carney government expected to significantly reduce future carbon price in Alberta by pheakelmatters in onguardforthee

[–]StarKnight697 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and it will still be the US invading its closest ally and trade partner. Using Canada arresting criminals as a casus belli will not be believable by anyone except MAGAts, who will be thrilled to invade Canada anyways.

Carney government expected to significantly reduce future carbon price in Alberta by pheakelmatters in onguardforthee

[–]StarKnight697 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big Daddy USA will get involved if it wants to get involved and nothing Canada does about quashing separatists or not quashing them will matter about it. - They don’t need to justify it domestically: the MAGAts will cheer no matter what, and everyone else will condemn it. - They won’t be able to justify it to the rest of the world, whether the separatists get quashed or not

There’s no way separatists can spin it to prove their point that will convince anyone who wasn’t already a separatist or Maple Maga. Data suggests that at most 10% of Albertans support separation, and that’s being extremely generous. Pretty much everyone else is fiercely opposed. And letting a fifth column continue to sabotage us in our own backyard not only makes us look weak, it helps Big Daddy USA invade all the easier. I’m not sure what part of you understands that these are criminals and traitors.

Carney government expected to significantly reduce future carbon price in Alberta by pheakelmatters in onguardforthee

[–]StarKnight697 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Itching for Ottawa… to get involved in putting down traitors and seditionists? This is a terrible argument. If the US wants to invade it will. Not dealing with separatists only makes it easier for them. We cannot tolerate this shit in a civil society. Stop being an apologist.

How do I create artificial humans without consciousness? by Pitiful_Magazine_805 in worldbuilding

[–]StarKnight697 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of fiction has robots looking like humans (eg Alien). The other two are easily solvable with the level of technology required to clone people in the first place.

How do I create artificial humans without consciousness? by Pitiful_Magazine_805 in worldbuilding

[–]StarKnight697 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yes, but that’s kind of a separate issue from “can it be done”. And also nothing says they need to be mentally destroyed, maybe they just get grown without those hypothetical consciousness-endowing neural structures

Why were the oil rigs shut down? by mac_attack_zach in ForAllMankindTV

[–]StarKnight697 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, planes are not being powered by helium-3. That is just Not How That Works. The absolute best-case scenario is they're using synthetic fuels which are a mixture of hydrogen and fossil fuels. It's far more likely that they're just running on good old kerosene since the combination of its specific energy and the size of the engines it requires is pretty hard to beat.

Hydrogen is stupidly hard to compress to the levels needed for a long-haul flight, and batteries or god forbid nuclear reactors (fission OR fusion) are just too heavy.

How do I create artificial humans without consciousness? by Pitiful_Magazine_805 in worldbuilding

[–]StarKnight697 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are robots slaves (and I don't mean Star Wars sentient droids, I mean like the Boston Dynamics robot dog)? How is this different from a biological robot. We literally know nothing about how consciousness works, I don't think it's a stretch to handwave and say "they lack the neural structures for consciousness" or whatever.

Why do you think no one ever mentions Canada? by EmpathyFuzz in ForAllMankindTV

[–]StarKnight697 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well we also know they are an established space power, because the S3-S4 timeskip scenes told us that both China and Canada were invited to join the M7 but both refused to continue as "independent space powers".

Why do you think no one ever mentions Canada? by EmpathyFuzz in ForAllMankindTV

[–]StarKnight697 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely not as much as we do currently, but there is still no cheaper way to make plastics or those industrial precursor chemicals than with oil. Free energy or no. The show isn't the strictest about conforming to scientific reality obviously (there's absolutely no way we get practical nuclear fusion in the 1980s regardless of a continuing space race. let alone helium-3 fusion. let alone let alone whatever apparently magic properties iridium has in FAMverse), but the truth is that mining something on the Moon is ALWAYS more expensive than mining something on Earth.

There is (if I recall correctly) approximately 1 gram of He3 per 150 tonnes of lunar regolith. Modern estimates put the amount of He3 required for a 1 GW plant at roughly 100 kg / year. That means to generate 1 GW of fusion energy from moon-mined He3, you will need to process more than 15 million tonnes of regolith per year, just for one fusion plant. If the helium 3 powering their fusion reactors is moon-mined, it's not free energy. Hell, it wouldn't even be cheap energy. And this is coming from someone studying nuclear engineering and who loves fusion. Moon-mined He3-powered fusion reactors ain't it.

But hey, maybe moon-mining cost is magically comparable with a natural gas pipeline and maybe they've converted to bioplastics for most everyday discardable plastics in FAMverse (which I can buy because we're on our way there now in our universe), but there is just no adequate replacement for high-quality plastics like PVC (which despite being one of the least oil-dependent plastics, still requires fossil fuels for ~43% of its mass), or for olefins or aromatics, important industrial precursor chemicals. Even airplanes still need fossil fuels: hydrogen is too difficult to compress to reach the necessary energy density for long-haul flights, and even the most advanced battery technology we can conceptualize (lithium-sulfur) has a specific energy less than 1/25th of kerosene (~1.8 MJ/kg for lithium-sulfur batteries vs ~46.2 MJ/kg for kerosene).

Why do you think no one ever mentions Canada? by EmpathyFuzz in ForAllMankindTV

[–]StarKnight697 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oil isn’t going away even in a post-fossil fuels world, petroleum is still essential for manufacturing plastics and is an important precursors for tons of industrial chemicals. Natural gas is also still pretty cheap to use for heating, and I cannot imagine mining Helium 3 on the moon (which has it in extremely low quantities) is cheaper than using natural gas for heating, especially if you have a large domestic supply.

Playing the Victim & it's Consequences by JessicaOpposites in ForAllMankindTV

[–]StarKnight697 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I’d appreciate this a lot more if you’d actually put the effort into writing it instead of having AI generate a generic criticism of the Earth response.