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Old 08-26-2015, 11:43 AM   #41
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Assuming that to be the case(which is dealing with weapons not stealth), the fight STARTS at detection not when shots are exchanged. The captains will have been seeking advantage long before.
Eh, that depends on your definition of 'fight', and if you have limited delta-V they may just be coasting. Realistically, space combat tends towards the winner being determined when forces are allocated, and the battle is when you resolve the inevitable (which, despite being inevitable, may be unknown to both parties).
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Old 08-26-2015, 11:54 AM   #42
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The range of the Mark I eyeball.
Quite possibly, but 'normal vision' includes Telescopic or highly Acute vision that could spot ships, under the right circumstances, at quite long range.

Under typical circumstances that doesn't matter since the thermal IR sensor will have spotted the target much earlier than that.
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Old 08-26-2015, 12:06 PM   #43
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The range of the Mark I eyeball.
Doubtful that the Mark I eyeball is used for detection in space. Cameras with telescopes, however, are likely.
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Old 08-26-2015, 12:18 PM   #44
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Doubtful that the Mark I eyeball is used for detection in space. Cameras with telescopes, however, are likely.
Probably not. But I do remember "visual" being mentioned.
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Old 08-26-2015, 12:33 PM   #45
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And smart folks were assuming all the things that were "science fiction" were impossible, until...every single time...innovations caused paradigm shifts which the average scientist has always thought was impossible.
Hardly every single time. Or even most of the time.
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Probably not. But I do remember "visual" being mentioned.
'Visual' means something using the visual spectrum, not the mark I eyeball in particular.
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Old 08-26-2015, 12:46 PM   #47
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Hardly every single time. Or even most of the time.
Yeah, 99% of the time when physics says 'X is impossible', X is actually impossible. However, that's boring so no-one remembers those instances.
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Old 08-26-2015, 01:25 PM   #48
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Hardly every single time. Or even most of the time.
It's not what you think.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1...bout-certainty
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And smart folks were assuming all the things that were "science fiction" were impossible, until...every single time...innovations caused paradigm shifts which the average scientist has always thought was impossible. Then suddenly, those things that were impossible were possible. And everyone retroactively knew that, of course.
Like practical nuclear space ships producing enough Gs for passengers to be uncomfortably thrust into their acceleration couches? Or what about FTL subspace communications? For that matter, what about FTL propulsion at all? I recall reading a lot of science fiction about time travel, yet that still remains firmly out of reach, unless you've figured out how to create negative energy (energy is, after all, the generator of the time translation genorater in Hamiltonian systems).

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Hasn't Carlo Rovelli's Quantum Loop Gravity been shown wrong? Doesn't say much for anything else he's said, especially when it's in the vein of "people should be more open minded."

If you'd like to link to primary research concerning the subject matter, I'll gladly read and consider it. Otherwise, I suppose I've said all I have to say.
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Hasn't Carlo Rovelli's Quantum Loop Gravity been shown wrong? Doesn't say much for anything else he's said
Newton was wrong. Ignore that guy. Einstein was wrong. Ignore him.
And your contributions are?

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If you'd like to link to primary research concerning the subject matter, I'll gladly read and consider it. Otherwise, I suppose I've said all I have to say.
Oh, yeah, you've really laid down the law. If we could all be so logical...
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