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Post by Jim on Aug 26, 2014 10:32:13 GMT 9
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Post by Diamondback on Aug 26, 2014 11:29:43 GMT 9
I'm guessing that one of the RIFTS Role-Playing Game authors is a Dart fan. Don't look at me, I like historical miniatures, not sci-fi and fantasy on the D&D model... LOL
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Aug 26, 2014 11:39:14 GMT 9
Good fantasy story.
Sounds like something our resident Snake might be involved in.
I can see Rod Serling now, coming out of the fog, with the music playing, ready to take us in to "The Twilight Zone".
(Well, according to what Diamondback posted while I was writing this post, he is not involved.)
Look at their site and you will see lots of other stories.
Jim Too
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Post by Diamondback on Aug 26, 2014 14:02:03 GMT 9
Not gonna lie, I do dabble in writing fiction some, but my fiction is Present Day or at least within-my-lifetime--but when I game I prefer it to be historical, trying to explore how things could have gone differently from just one or a few simple turning points. (Six years ago we reenacted Midway at a local convention, and it showed just what kind of Divine Providence was on our side so long ago, because the game was a BLOWOUT Japanese win.) OT, Chaplain, you should like this: I once wrote a character that was an Artificial Intelligence who'd found God. ("There is no way I should be able to do what I do with the hardware I run on, ergo, there MUST be some Higher Power involved in my creation somehow," as the machine itself once explained. Mind you, that's a computer core built from the brains of FOUR fully-upgraded F-22s clustered together...) Actually, that RIFTS Six reminds me of a novel I once read--in it, the day after Armstrong passed spectral Saturn V's started launching from Canaveral, seemingly as real as the Shuttle teeing up for launch on the other pad until they got to orbit where they just vanished; the Shuttle mission ended up being diverted to fly "Safety" for three of its crew who volunteered to ride the shade of Apollo 20 for one last Moonshot. I won't spoil the ending, but damned if I can remember the title... EDIT: Found it! Abandon In Place by Jerry Oltion. Part of it gets a little New Age-y, but... it had a nice little implied message about the power of sheer BELIEF going along for the ride on those supernatural Saturns. www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312873166/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312873166&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
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Post by zipper730 on Jul 1, 2021 1:35:15 GMT 9
DiamondbackThat sounds like an awesome story. How large are 4 x F-22's "brains"?
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Post by Diamondback on Jul 1, 2021 1:47:08 GMT 9
If memory serves, each computer core in an F-22 is the size of a breadbox--between the two cores, they add up to the combined power of two Cray supercomputers with expansion room for a third Cray-equivalent. (My supercomputer expert said twelve Crays is what she considered "minimum plausible power" for a computer to spontaneously "wake up" and achieve sentience on its own, and the F-22's computers are among the most power-per-cubic-inch systems in the history of computer science.)
I also liked to goof on pop-culture and the concept was basically "Skynet's good twin gets installed into Airwolf on steroids... and has a Pinocchio Complex."
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Post by LBer1568 on Jul 1, 2021 22:19:34 GMT 9
As an old time computer guy, started with MA-1 in 1963. MA-1 was first "Digital Computer" used in airborne system. Remember we sent people to the moon? Well the computers used for guiding folks to and from Moon Orbit used computers equivalent to a Commodore 64. They used triple redundancy and took the majority solution. The old 64 was an 8-bit computer. Not to be confused with the 64 bit ones we now use as home computers. So when doing the math the 64 didn't have any capability beyond 2 to the 8th power. So why does an F-22 need so much computing power? I would assume it's for the active memory power to accomplish missions simultaneously. www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16710716/f22-avionics-designers-rely-on-obsolescent-electronics-but-plan-for-future-upgradesBTW, gas is back above $3.08 today, rained all night and still going to be warm and dry for 4th of July weekend. BTW, the fireworks were my idea. I turn 77 on Sunday. Lorin
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Post by Diamondback on Jul 2, 2021 1:32:57 GMT 9
$3.89 for 89-octane here. Thank God for those insane buck-a-gallon rewards I earn off the gift-card rack...
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