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No sarcasm. SR has +20 recharge built in thats basically 3-4 IO sets worth towards your perma hasten. So its almost sacrilege not to build for it. If I didn't have Perma-hasten on an SR at 50 i'd feel cheated somehow.

Yep. Why even make a SR if you aren't going perma hasten?

Almost no one cares about it. Or difficulty. You and I are nearly outliers.

Civil War probably was a lot better if you hadnt read the comics version. As it was it felt forced and much smaller. Good action sequences and all that, but that generally isn't what moves things past middle tier for me.

Id probably rank them .. Excellent Daredevil S1 Avengers 1 Capt America 1 Good Jessica Jones S1 Cloak and Dagger Capt America 2 Guardians 1 Luke Cage S1 Punisher S2 Resonable Entertainment The other Stuff mostly Bla level Iron fist S2 Iron man 2 and 3 Runaways Guardians 2

I'd go Beam Rifle / Invul

This is true. But also very sad.

The buzz is Amazon doesn't have the rights to the Silmarillion, so this series is not "actually" based on it. Which would make the whole thing a challenge I suppose.

SWTOR is a great solo game. And you can play all the 0-50 stuff for free. That is like 8 single player RPGs since there are 4 Class specific storylines per faction. You won't get very good gear, etc, but that really isn't necessary to play the game solo. I would suggest instead you play the solo stuff free for a while, then decide whether or not to suscribe. Since the expansions are not truly class specific you can suscribe AFTER you have made it to 50 for one or more classes (I'd suggest all 8 but w/e ) Its also a MMO, but that's where PeregrineFalcon's points come in. But I have subscribed off and on for years and honestly I spent very little time teaming up to do anything. In fact while leveling the class quests actively discourage teaming up due to the way the system works.

I imagine our first glimpse of Extra-Solar life will be through a Sol-Gravitational Lens Telescope Of course that means missions to the Kaiper Belt. So that is probably 1000 years away. For the Jr Science model. 500+ AU is no joke.

This is the root of the problem I was describing I think. I wonder if its a case of looking out over the horizon instead of doing the work that is already in sight. The idea of near term Mars settlements seem to be the same, just on a lesser scale. We have the technology now to start Resource Utilization in Space, but I think we find that boring. Even though that is what it really would take to migrate off Earth. For example. Lets say we wanted a Mars Colony. What we want to do is launch a bunch of rockets from the Earth's surface and travel there. That's stupid. We should be launching rockets from the Moon to get to Mars. Same goes for a manned Mars mission really. The SpaceX plan is almost ridiculous. Mars Direct only slightly less so. But at least Zubrin has done some homework. Interstellar travel is basically the same thing. Once you have developed the Solar System it is a lot easier to get to the next Star System. Or you know we can hope for Magitech Warp Drives.

I personaly think Faster Than Light is one of those things that is thrown out there that discourages Space Development rather than encourages it. "We can't go to other Earth Like Planets yet so we may as well wait."

There are some who think we will settle all the way out to the Oort cloud. Living in comets and icy bodies. Then some adventurous souls will hop from our Oort Cloud to that of our nearest Neighbors. Since the Oort cloud extends nearly half the way to the nearest star it becomes a much more plausible trip. ===== I think what people have trouble with is timescales. They want to think of something happening in the next 30 years, or next 100 years, etc. But that isn't based on anything except Space Opera. It took around 80,000 years for modern Humans to comepletely migrate around this planet. It may easily take another 80,000 to settle this Solar System. It may take 800,000 to settle the nearest stars. Assuming it ever happens. Based on current availible evidence no species in this galaxy has accomplished this yet. At least not in the observable time/distance window. So we would possibly be the first as long as we evade extinction.

Only sort of 3 depending on the secondary If you have a Melee T1 in your secondary you are a bit out of luck here. Unless you get stunned I guess you can dizzily stumble into range to hit Power Thrust.

The gravity can be solved with spinning habitats even on moons and planets. At zero gravity a cylinder or a torus. At partial gravity the torus is partly flattened. Of course humans may adapt to some reduced gravity. Or they can be engineered for it. Still I dont think even 2030 is realistic. As a species we seem to currently lack the vision to leave our scarcity driven economies. Eventually though we should get over the "here be dragons" mindset.

I like the moon too. Its HUGE, its only 2 light seconds from earth and 4 days travel by rocket. Perhaps 2 weeks by a Hohman cycler. It gets a lot more solar energy than Mars and its probably a lot easy to grow food in greenhouses there. You can send payloads off the moon using a glorified electric train set with a ramp at the end. But Isaac Arthur and those guys really think the Oneil cylinder is the way to go. But all those problems will be solved before you get to Interstellar Travel being an actual problem. The Solar System will probably have more inhabitants than the Federation from Star Trek before we would even need to go to the star next door.

The opposite probably. Since to Terraform you need to move trillions of tons of water from the Kaiper belt. But you'd get most(all) of the mass for Space habitats from outside of Earth's gravity well.

That's it. Thank you. And yes that power. Widows must get something similair since after you hit a wakie you basically can toggle up right away.

SOA/Widow inherent has this sort of weak Status protection built in. Wonder how this would work if this was just given to everyone as an inherent. Then of course you'd need to do something with the Veat inherent of course. But you'd probably need that anyway if you increased general squishy Status protection.

I mean that is kind of what we want though. To turn all the lifeless places green. Or at least enough of them for our decendants. Whether that is terraforming, semi-terraforming, or the eventual construction of billions of O'Neil cylinders who can say? Perhaps all three.

Guess that will depend on the future extra-terrestrial phosphorus industry.

Most of the Universe (and this Solar System) is just barren rocks, I doubt Humans will hurt them all that much. I vote for the spread of Humans over the continued lifelessness of rocks x a trillion trillion.

After The Wheel of Time, I assume this will also be horrible.

The FTL barrier isn't really the barrier to Interstellar Travel. Its getting anywhere Near the Speed of Light that is the barrier. If you could Warp or change Space just to reduce the Energy (and ReMass) required to get to a useful fraction of C, the problem is solved. I like the Higgs possibility too. Of course it would also increase the likelyhood someone could blow up the planet with a RKV but hey you have to break some eggs to make an omlette.

In a way it sort of is. If they miss you, you don't get debuffed.