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Originally Posted by safisher
I think it will be hard to see the changes coming at TL9 with the advent of metamaterials. The ships using them may be unrecognizable to us in their geometry as "stealth space ships" too.
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I know we've talked about the viability of different metamaterials before, but he is right. No metamaterial will prevent the craft from having to radiate heat. Although whether future advances will allow one to chose which direction that heat is radiated may be up to debate, I think that the First Law of Thermodynamics will still apply even several tech levels removed from our current tech level.