10-04-2021, 06:20 AM | #21 |
Join Date: Aug 2007
|
Re: First TL-9 items
......and some items wth stats that UT would make TL9 were probably available then. Other things that UT has as TL9 may never show up. That truck bed fission power generator might be one of them.
__________________
Fred Brackin |
10-04-2021, 06:31 AM | #22 | ||||||
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Rome, Italy
|
Re: First TL-9 items
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Curious how the only TL9 things we have are the ones against which decades of Cyberpunk warned us against...
__________________
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?” |
||||||
10-04-2021, 06:59 AM | #23 | ||||||
Join Date: May 2021
Location: Eastern Kentucky
|
Re: First TL-9 items
I actually went back and checked the dates on this thread to make sure it was not a necro.
Quote:
Really? Only America's obsession with safety and our independent streak are stopping this from already being true. We have self driving cars. They work. They've yet to make them safe enough for American comfort. If we had a separate self-driving car road network for hauling crap it would already be a reality. This is inches from becoming reality and is more our psyche than anything else. Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
||||||
10-04-2021, 07:27 AM | #24 |
Join Date: Aug 2007
|
Re: First TL-9 items
Drones like the definitely TL "Predator" are remote piloted with little or no onboard AI. Larger unmanned vehicles like Global Hawk (also TL8) do take off, navigate and land through onboard AI.
Global Hawk might be about as smart as a bumblebee except for the part about finding and gathering pollen.
__________________
Fred Brackin |
10-04-2021, 07:43 AM | #25 |
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Boston, Hub of the Universe!
|
Re: First TL-9 items
Chemical rocket engines. Between the rotating detonation engine, and the self-consuming engine (consumes the tankage as the engine climbs up), we’re eking out those last few percentages of maximum theoretical performance.
__________________
Demi Benson |
10-04-2021, 08:57 AM | #26 |
Join Date: Jun 2016
|
Re: First TL-9 items
Laser point defense weapons have been deployed on naval ships.
|
10-04-2021, 10:40 AM | #27 |
Join Date: Dec 2020
|
Re: First TL-9 items
As for Biotech, last week I checked how Biontech is doing in the field for which the company was founded to cure cancer. Even while working on Covid they made some good results lately in a lab experiment, injected artificial RNA got the healthy cells to produce enough antibodys to destroy the cancer cells completely. I guess that technique is solid TL 9.
Vaccines using the same method for several diseases are in development but still in a very early project phase. As for laser defense weapons, the US plan to deploy in the next time some repurposed IFV ( LAV 25 ? ) instead troops and conventional weapons this one cary a laser to protect friendly forces against drones. that is the smallest working application for lasers I know right now in the military. VR and AR are now making steps forward, they are very useful in training people for maintainance dutys in for example combat jets. It is far cheaper to learn first steps this way and in a simulator than using the real stuff from the beginning. Also some procedures can be taught which normaly can´t due to safety reasons. AR is actually also tried in some military night vision equipment, with mixed success, some say the artificial outlining of equipment and forces helps other call it distracting - not to mention the computer power needed ( roughly the same level as a PS 4 ! ) makes it a heavy energy hog. By the way you really don´t need expensive nightvision gear anymore, a recent scientific research showed a interesting result. Doting glasses with a ultra thin cover of gallium arsenic, resultes in this coating transforming light in the normally invisible spectrum ( infrared lenght ) into visible light, in the end you could see at night quite well without carrying a heavy and expensive gear which needs batterys and a lot of maintannace, not to mention the reduced field of view. In daylight the effect is there but to weak to distract you, in fact you could wear that thing 24/7 and see always good enough to act accordingly. |
10-04-2021, 10:53 AM | #28 | ||
Join Date: Jun 2013
|
Re: First TL-9 items
Quote:
Quote:
A lot of authors, like Gibson, wrote what they did because they saw the "writing on the wall," as it were.
__________________
GURPS Overhaul |
||
10-04-2021, 11:38 AM | #29 |
Join Date: Aug 2007
|
Re: First TL-9 items
To my knowledge there was one laser weapon deployed on one ship and that ship has now been taken out of service and the laser sent back to the labs.
So neither "weapons" nor "ships" in the plural and more of a past tense on "deployed" than most people would assume from the phrasing.
__________________
Fred Brackin |
10-04-2021, 01:49 PM | #30 | |
Join Date: Jun 2016
|
Re: First TL-9 items
Quote:
|
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|