Rescued, because it’s the right thing
to do and Seth is linked to our Empress.
The two don’t really know
what they have unleashed in the Bunnies.
They will soon learn.
“Why did you go to all the trouble to rescue us?”
Mostly because the Empress has a psychic connection to him
which was threatening her sanity. AND it was the right thing to do.
Sometimes (not often) the universe allows everyone to profit.
(Be careful looking in horses’ mouths.)
They can’t tell Diana that, but once they are back home and able
to meet Teresa, she’ll decide whether or not to tell her, I’m quite
sure Seth will know Teresa within seconds. This is the biggest
issue the Empire faces, no one believes there’s no strings attached.
That poor girl, barely of age to have children and already as cynical as a 40 y/o.
Don’t fret darlin’ these people won’t force you to work, they give you the
opportunity to work for YOURSELF! And the choice to help the Empire in the
process…
PC you dog! Bill and I have been talking about that ship and you go and give
us a close up?!? It does bare a very close resemblance to the proposed design
for the warp ship those RL scientists have been displaying. Nothing like the ST
Enterprise warp ship, too short and slimmer ring profile. That looks more like
a P’teran LR Scout with a much bigger drive section. Plus the nacelles and rings.
This is more or less what I was going to reply to your statement above it:
There ARE strings attached, but they’re flexible and voluntary. You have
incurred a debt, an Obligation. How you respond to it is up to you, and
will tell us what we need to know about you. If you ask we will give you
options, but we WON’T tell you what do do, that would spoil the test.
I started to ask if this is how Pterans treat their own cadets, and it occurs
to me it probably is. They’re reptiles. Think of sea turtles: OK, kids, egg
times over. The sea’s over there. Mind the seagulls and RUN! Prove you
deserve to survive.
Yes and no, many times they have said “If you want to join, there will be
responsibilities. If not, you’re free to go.” Those 2 are freed slaves, nothing
more. Teresa herself said what Seth does after he recovers is up to him,
and his sister, but they will give the offer to join and live the right way.
If they leave, there’s a HUGE risk it’ll happen again and no one will come
to their aid this time. I’m sure Diana will realize this.
Anytime there’s a time crunch, normal steps are skipped and the recruits
are subjected to extreme training, The Empire has done it multiple times
before, starting with the Wolf Pack. You’re no doubt right about the P’tera,
but it also fits in with the Empire’s ideas.
Why indeed, because the Empire hates slavery and that is
what Seth and his sister were being treated as.
I think it is a staged scenerio;
EASY; The existing invasion force but with upgraded weapons
and systems compared to what is expected. Logical purpose to invade the
rabbits home and strip-mine the planet. The upgraded weapons and systems the
Empires best guess at the new/refurbished war fleet of the core.
DIFFICULT; the current force is passing through the system; to be followed
by a much stronger force which appears as the captain deals with the current force.
Logical purpose to invade the Dogishun (have I got that name right?) system.
IMPOSSIBLE; A third wave of ships appear via FTL. Logical purpose to start the
hot war with the Empire by invading Catia
UNLIKELY; my cascade failure of the ship’s system while they are distracted with current fleet.
THE RED HERRING; any of the above, but it isn’t a simulation.
The Buns have been hiding from an invasion for a while and the computer knows this,
so it’s depicting that very scenario to them to see if they can handle it calmly and to
act accordingly. I agree that it’s more logical it isn’t here for the Buns, but on it’s way
to mess with the Dogs, if they stay calm and not trigger an attack, they would be able
to know that the Dogs were more than able to handle the attack and keep a watchful
eye on what they were going to do. I doubt it’s real, the Captain would of been
sprinting back to the bridge if it were.
I believe her worries will fade once they see how the Empire functions,
meeting Teresa and Johnathan will go a long way for that. I feel once
she knows it to be true, that the Legion would be a good choice for her,
to give back what she’s been given. The same for Seth, once he knows
how much Teresa cares for the Legion, and it’s the safest place for
someone with his abilities since most of them know about Teresa’s
I don’t have to, I already knew. to try and force the entire world to switch
over is a pipe dream, no one has the power production or the infrastructure
to support that massive amount of power that charging that many EV’s at
once would require. Push it yes, OVER TIME, not overnight.
I seen a interview with Neil Tyson Degauce who was asked about this,
And he launched into a detailed explanation.
Basically he compared crude oil to salt, salt was a food preservative, you had to
have it or risk starving during the winters, when the ice box and refrigeration
was invented it was down-sized to a seasoning. He said it will be what will
happen to crude oil, when the world is ready to produce enough power for all
those EV’s, crude oil will become no more important that salt is now. I like the
sound of that myself…
yeah, these early stages of are often just moving legacy resource consumption further back
in the chain. But gotta start somewhere, and hopefully the larger generators are properly
using their economies of scale to be more efficient than scattering so many smaller engines
around. When will folk realize those in-ground fuels are limited resources, and much more useful as
industrial feed stock, instead of just burning them :{
We only get one cradle world, it should be a wilderness park, not an industrial park.
Progress is a slow, lumbering animal, it doesn’t move fast,
and it rarely moves the way we want. But it does move. I
blame those people in places of power that can’t be bothered
with facts and figures, knowledge, or understanding. All they
know is they want it, they want it bad, and they want it NOW.
They don’t care what or who it harms, or the downside, only
the bragging rights of getting it first. If you pressure the beast
of change, it may run away, crushing and destroying anything
in it’s path,or suddenly sit down and not move. But if you
guide it along the right path, at it’s own pace, wondrous things
happen. If they rush the needed changes that EV needs to
happen, every part of the world economy will crash, and things
will get way more harder to deal with.
Well, we could always go with modern nuclear reactors and end
the problems with wind and solar – such as the recycling and
other environmental issues – once and for all.
But until an electric car can match my minivan, no thanks.
It gets 500 miles on one “charge”, takes me five minutes to
recharge for another 500, and I can carry a spare “battery”
behind the passenger seat that’s good for another 125 miles.
Plus, with the proper hitch, it can tow it’s own weight for
400 miles before it needs another 5-minute charge.
And getting power lines run out here so my neighbors and I
could have fast chargers would cost more than my land did,
so again, no thanks.
And then there’s the resale value. My minivan, at 14 years
and 125,000 miles, is worth about $6000. An EV that’s only
5 years old is effectively worthless, as a replacement battery
costs more than the rest of the car is worth.
IF the manufacturer even makes a replacement by then.
*cough* Ford Focus *cough*
Will a scrapyard even accept one, considering the problems of
dealing with the worn-out battery?
And there is the biggest reason the lower 80% of US folk
will never own one, the slow charge rate, the costs, and
of course the idiots that pull the EV in for an oil change!
HA!
I’m sure it was staged, but I seen a short on YouTube,
a tall, sexy, skimpily dressed gal open the hood, and
proceed to pour a gallon jug of motor oil all over the
engine…
I weep for our species!
That’s is the true reason EV’s will take much longer to be
a viable replacement, while the tech is advancing, it’s just
not ready for wide spread use, and I don’t see any of us
being able to own one in our life times. Tesla, to date,
is the closest EV to practical use, if you can afford a lease
for a $130,000 USD. No point in buying one, after 7 years
it would be cheaper to buy another. My father bought his
’59 6 months before I was born for $1,200 and drove it until
I was 17, got 25 MPG, even after he hopped it up.
EVs will never – CAN NEVER – replace CEVs. The universe’s most
fundamental laws prohibit batteries from ever being as energy dense
as chemical fuels. Solar and wind power (which are really the same)
will never be reliable. They will always be intermittent AT BEST! Our
entire civilization is based upon abundant, inexpensive energy. Any
move away from that will cost lives – IN THE MILLIONS! – and result
in untold disruptions. I believe our political masters – the Klaus
Schwabs, the Justin Trudeaus, the John Kerrys, the Bill Gates –
know damned good and well there is no climate crisis. Do they build
their homes on mountain side or beach fronts?! Once upon a
time CO2 was MANY TIMES what it is today and the earth abides.
Once upon a time mammoths grazed upon sub-tropical plants IN SIBERIA! The definition of an ice age (which we are
in right now) is permanent ice caps on the poles. Apparently
there have been times in the past when the poles were ice
free! When the sahara was a rain forest to rival the amazon.
And it may well be that green again some day with higher
CO2 levels. But real climate scientists such as Dr. Judith
Curry say there is no climate crisis. In fact they say things
are about to get cooler – A LOT COOLER! Expect it to begin
around 2030. Note: I am not a “climate denier”. I am a “climate
CRISIS denier”! We.homo saps are marvelously adaptable critters.
And the earth is pretty damned robust.
The only way that full conversion to electric would be for a game I like:
the Fallout franchise. In the games they depict a pre-war society built
entirely on 2 things the US developed, a cure for radiation sickness,
and cold fusion reactors that were no bigger than a soda can. With a
shelf life of 200+ years. They were named “Fusion cells” and fit in SO
many different devices. Downside is if the cell was ruptured, it exploded.
Cars didn’t use the fusion cells, they had a reactor that was “safe” for
driving, but you still needed a coolant to keep it from going super-critical.
Gas stations were replaced with coolant stations.
FYI, if you were to find a car with it’s reactor intact in the wasteland, shooting
it would result in a small nuclear explosion, and radiation. Safe my ass!
(CLANK!)
Ow, my ass… Where the hell do these safes keep coming from?!?
I’m dubious about how much of an explosion you’d get from a ruptured fusion reactor. Unlike a fission reactor where you load up
3 to 10 years worth of fuel at a time, and the waste products stay with the fuel until it’s re-loaded,
fusion happens in a fraction of a second, if it occurs at all, and the waste products are removed immediately.
The reaction occurs at very high temperature and pressure, but its only a tiny bit of fuel in the reactor at any moment.
For a small reactor to power a car (50 – 200KW), I think the charge will be less than a milligram of heated and compressed plasma.
Rupture the containment, and I think you get a loud pop and a bright flash.
It’s bad to be in or right next to the car, but a sniper will at most need to protect his eyes from the flash.
And no scrapyards don’t take EV’s you have to
return them to the dealerships for recycling,
the batteries are too toxic to be just scrapped,
they have to be recycled at the few places to
be chopped up, and the paste recovered for
use in a new battery. A very few places do that.
So all the used batteries funnel into the few.
If there were enough EV’s, scrapyards would get the tools and training to remove the batteries first, and probably ship them to a
specialized recycling facility. Recycling a Lithium battery is a whole new process requiring new equipment, but there’s a lot of value
to recover in a ton of battery. It will be profitable – if the quantities are sufficient.
So we’re back to the big problem – instead of building more of the natural gas, coal, or nuclear power plants we’ll need when tens
of millions of Americans come home from work and plug in their cars to recharge overnight, those who would rule us are actually
closing the reliable plants, and pretending to replace them with unreliables. Either they’re so stupid they think you can charge from
solar cells at night, or their real plan is to take away personal transportation, and control us through mass transit.
So I would not be investing in EV or Li-Ion battery recycling…
But how will the ruling elite tyrants maintain control???
What else matters to them?
Here’s on: You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
You will eat bugs.
You will gut down your trees and dig coal when your government virtue signals
and closes down all or the country’s nuclear electric power plants. Then someone
blows up or turns off your incoming natural gas pipelines. How could it get worse?
Oh. Someone dumped old batteries and worn out wind power blades. Then it gets worse.
They get nothing.
“But how will the ruling elite tyrants maintain control???”
Through propaganda and social media, you are expected
to LIKE poverty and all the things your wondrous leaders
tell you to believe, like the good little minions you are…
While there are no APPARENT strings attached, there ARE implied
conditions. It can be summed up in two words; “Do Better”.
In short, even if they don’t join the Empire, be better people than
those who did wrong by those rescued. Lead by example.
One thing that the Pterens are about to discover. While rabbits
are typically fairly docile creatures, when threatened and cornered,
they are NASTY fighters!
Rescued, because it’s the right thing
to do and Seth is linked to our Empress.
The two don’t really know
what they have unleashed in the Bunnies.
They will soon learn.
“Why did you go to all the trouble to rescue us?”
Mostly because the Empress has a psychic connection to him
which was threatening her sanity. AND it was the right thing to do.
Sometimes (not often) the universe allows everyone to profit.
(Be careful looking in horses’ mouths.)
They can’t tell Diana that, but once they are back home and able
to meet Teresa, she’ll decide whether or not to tell her, I’m quite
sure Seth will know Teresa within seconds. This is the biggest
issue the Empire faces, no one believes there’s no strings attached.
That poor girl, barely of age to have children and already as cynical as a 40 y/o.
Don’t fret darlin’ these people won’t force you to work, they give you the
opportunity to work for YOURSELF! And the choice to help the Empire in the
process…
PC you dog! Bill and I have been talking about that ship and you go and give
It does bare a very close resemblance to the proposed design
us a close up?!?
for the warp ship those RL scientists have been displaying. Nothing like the ST
Enterprise warp ship, too short and slimmer ring profile. That looks more like
a P’teran LR Scout with a much bigger drive section. Plus the nacelles and rings.
This is more or less what I was going to reply to your statement above it:
There ARE strings attached, but they’re flexible and voluntary. You have
incurred a debt, an Obligation. How you respond to it is up to you, and
will tell us what we need to know about you. If you ask we will give you
options, but we WON’T tell you what do do, that would spoil the test.
I started to ask if this is how Pterans treat their own cadets, and it occurs
to me it probably is. They’re reptiles. Think of sea turtles: OK, kids, egg
times over. The sea’s over there. Mind the seagulls and RUN! Prove you
deserve to survive.
Yes and no, many times they have said “If you want to join, there will be
responsibilities. If not, you’re free to go.” Those 2 are freed slaves, nothing
more. Teresa herself said what Seth does after he recovers is up to him,
and his sister, but they will give the offer to join and live the right way.
If they leave, there’s a HUGE risk it’ll happen again and no one will come
to their aid this time. I’m sure Diana will realize this.
Anytime there’s a time crunch, normal steps are skipped and the recruits
are subjected to extreme training, The Empire has done it multiple times
before, starting with the Wolf Pack. You’re no doubt right about the P’tera,
but it also fits in with the Empire’s ideas.
*You’re no doubt right*
Why indeed, because the Empire hates slavery and that is
what Seth and his sister were being treated as.
I think it is a staged scenerio;
EASY; The existing invasion force but with upgraded weapons
and systems compared to what is expected. Logical purpose to invade the
rabbits home and strip-mine the planet. The upgraded weapons and systems the
Empires best guess at the new/refurbished war fleet of the core.
DIFFICULT; the current force is passing through the system; to be followed
by a much stronger force which appears as the captain deals with the current force.
Logical purpose to invade the Dogishun (have I got that name right?) system.
IMPOSSIBLE; A third wave of ships appear via FTL. Logical purpose to start the
hot war with the Empire by invading Catia
UNLIKELY; my cascade failure of the ship’s system while they are distracted with current fleet.
THE RED HERRING; any of the above, but it isn’t a simulation.
The Buns have been hiding from an invasion for a while and the computer knows this,
so it’s depicting that very scenario to them to see if they can handle it calmly and to
act accordingly. I agree that it’s more logical it isn’t here for the Buns, but on it’s way
to mess with the Dogs, if they stay calm and not trigger an attack, they would be able
to know that the Dogs were more than able to handle the attack and keep a watchful
eye on what they were going to do. I doubt it’s real, the Captain would of been
sprinting back to the bridge if it were.
I believe her worries will fade once they see how the Empire functions,
meeting Teresa and Johnathan will go a long way for that. I feel once
she knows it to be true, that the Legion would be a good choice for her,
to give back what she’s been given. The same for Seth, once he knows
how much Teresa cares for the Legion, and it’s the safest place for
someone with his abilities since most of them know about Teresa’s
Think about it.
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I don’t have to, I already knew. to try and force the entire world to switch
over is a pipe dream, no one has the power production or the infrastructure
to support that massive amount of power that charging that many EV’s at
once would require. Push it yes, OVER TIME, not overnight.
I seen a interview with Neil Tyson Degauce who was asked about this,
And he launched into a detailed explanation.
Basically he compared crude oil to salt, salt was a food preservative, you had to
have it or risk starving during the winters, when the ice box and refrigeration
was invented it was down-sized to a seasoning. He said it will be what will
happen to crude oil, when the world is ready to produce enough power for all
those EV’s, crude oil will become no more important that salt is now. I like the
sound of that myself…
yeah, these early stages of are often just moving legacy resource consumption further back
in the chain. But gotta start somewhere, and hopefully the larger generators are properly
using their economies of scale to be more efficient than scattering so many smaller engines
around. When will folk realize those in-ground fuels are limited resources, and much more useful as
industrial feed stock, instead of just burning them :{
We only get one cradle world, it should be a wilderness park, not an industrial park.
An industrial world decorated with plastic,
soot, and the bones of dead animals, yes….
Progress is a slow, lumbering animal, it doesn’t move fast,
and it rarely moves the way we want. But it does move. I
blame those people in places of power that can’t be bothered
with facts and figures, knowledge, or understanding. All they
know is they want it, they want it bad, and they want it NOW.
They don’t care what or who it harms, or the downside, only
the bragging rights of getting it first. If you pressure the beast
of change, it may run away, crushing and destroying anything
in it’s path,or suddenly sit down and not move. But if you
guide it along the right path, at it’s own pace, wondrous things
happen. If they rush the needed changes that EV needs to
happen, every part of the world economy will crash, and things
will get way more harder to deal with.
Well, we could always go with modern nuclear reactors and end
the problems with wind and solar – such as the recycling and
other environmental issues – once and for all.
But until an electric car can match my minivan, no thanks.
It gets 500 miles on one “charge”, takes me five minutes to
recharge for another 500, and I can carry a spare “battery”
behind the passenger seat that’s good for another 125 miles.
Plus, with the proper hitch, it can tow it’s own weight for
400 miles before it needs another 5-minute charge.
And getting power lines run out here so my neighbors and I
could have fast chargers would cost more than my land did,
so again, no thanks.
And then there’s the resale value. My minivan, at 14 years
and 125,000 miles, is worth about $6000. An EV that’s only
5 years old is effectively worthless, as a replacement battery
costs more than the rest of the car is worth.
IF the manufacturer even makes a replacement by then.
*cough* Ford Focus *cough*
Will a scrapyard even accept one, considering the problems of
dealing with the worn-out battery?
And there is the biggest reason the lower 80% of US folk
will never own one, the slow charge rate, the costs, and
of course the idiots that pull the EV in for an oil change!
HA!
I’m sure it was staged, but I seen a short on YouTube,
a tall, sexy, skimpily dressed gal open the hood, and
proceed to pour a gallon jug of motor oil all over the
engine…
I weep for our species!
That’s is the true reason EV’s will take much longer to be
a viable replacement, while the tech is advancing, it’s just
not ready for wide spread use, and I don’t see any of us
being able to own one in our life times. Tesla, to date,
is the closest EV to practical use, if you can afford a lease
for a $130,000 USD. No point in buying one, after 7 years
it would be cheaper to buy another. My father bought his
’59 6 months before I was born for $1,200 and drove it until
I was 17, got 25 MPG, even after he hopped it up.
EVs will never – CAN NEVER – replace CEVs. The universe’s most
fundamental laws prohibit batteries from ever being as energy dense
as chemical fuels. Solar and wind power (which are really the same)
will never be reliable. They will always be intermittent AT BEST! Our
entire civilization is based upon abundant, inexpensive energy. Any
move away from that will cost lives – IN THE MILLIONS! – and result
in untold disruptions. I believe our political masters – the Klaus
Schwabs, the Justin Trudeaus, the John Kerrys, the Bill Gates –
know damned good and well there is no climate crisis. Do they build
their homes on mountain side or beach fronts?! Once upon a
time CO2 was MANY TIMES what it is today and the earth abides.
Once upon a time mammoths grazed upon sub-tropical plants
IN SIBERIA! The definition of an ice age (which we are
in right now) is permanent ice caps on the poles. Apparently
there have been times in the past when the poles were ice
free! When the sahara was a rain forest to rival the amazon.
And it may well be that green again some day with higher
CO2 levels. But real climate scientists such as Dr. Judith
Curry say there is no climate crisis. In fact they say things
are about to get cooler – A LOT COOLER! Expect it to begin
around 2030. Note: I am not a “climate denier”. I am a “climate
CRISIS denier”! We.homo saps are marvelously adaptable critters.
And the earth is pretty damned robust.
The only way that full conversion to electric would be for a game I like:
the Fallout franchise. In the games they depict a pre-war society built
entirely on 2 things the US developed, a cure for radiation sickness,
and cold fusion reactors that were no bigger than a soda can. With a
shelf life of 200+ years. They were named “Fusion cells” and fit in SO
many different devices. Downside is if the cell was ruptured, it exploded.
Cars didn’t use the fusion cells, they had a reactor that was “safe” for
driving, but you still needed a coolant to keep it from going super-critical.
Gas stations were replaced with coolant stations.
FYI, if you were to find a car with it’s reactor intact in the wasteland, shooting
it would result in a small nuclear explosion, and radiation. Safe my ass!
(CLANK!)
Ow, my ass… Where the hell do these safes keep coming from?!?
I’m dubious about how much of an explosion you’d get from a ruptured fusion reactor. Unlike a fission reactor where you load up
3 to 10 years worth of fuel at a time, and the waste products stay with the fuel until it’s re-loaded,
fusion happens in a fraction of a second, if it occurs at all, and the waste products are removed immediately.
The reaction occurs at very high temperature and pressure, but its only a tiny bit of fuel in the reactor at any moment.
For a small reactor to power a car (50 – 200KW), I think the charge will be less than a milligram of heated and compressed plasma.
Rupture the containment, and I think you get a loud pop and a bright flash.
It’s bad to be in or right next to the car, but a sniper will at most need to protect his eyes from the flash.
And no scrapyards don’t take EV’s you have to
return them to the dealerships for recycling,
the batteries are too toxic to be just scrapped,
they have to be recycled at the few places to
be chopped up, and the paste recovered for
use in a new battery. A very few places do that.
So all the used batteries funnel into the few.
If there were enough EV’s, scrapyards would get the tools and training to remove the batteries first, and probably ship them to a
specialized recycling facility. Recycling a Lithium battery is a whole new process requiring new equipment, but there’s a lot of value
to recover in a ton of battery. It will be profitable – if the quantities are sufficient.
So we’re back to the big problem – instead of building more of the natural gas, coal, or nuclear power plants we’ll need when tens
of millions of Americans come home from work and plug in their cars to recharge overnight, those who would rule us are actually
closing the reliable plants, and pretending to replace them with unreliables. Either they’re so stupid they think you can charge from
solar cells at night, or their real plan is to take away personal transportation, and control us through mass transit.
So I would not be investing in EV or Li-Ion battery recycling…
But how will the ruling elite tyrants maintain control???
What else matters to them?
Here’s on: You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
You will eat bugs.
You will gut down your trees and dig coal when your government virtue signals
and closes down all or the country’s nuclear electric power plants. Then someone
blows up or turns off your incoming natural gas pipelines. How could it get worse?
Oh. Someone dumped old batteries and worn out wind power blades. Then it gets worse.
They get nothing.
“But how will the ruling elite tyrants maintain control???”
Through propaganda and social media, you are expected
to LIKE poverty and all the things your wondrous leaders
tell you to believe, like the good little minions you are…
That gets people eventually turning into the Legion and helping people like the brother
and sister because it is what people do.
While there are no APPARENT strings attached, there ARE implied
conditions. It can be summed up in two words; “Do Better”.
In short, even if they don’t join the Empire, be better people than
those who did wrong by those rescued. Lead by example.
One thing that the Pterens are about to discover. While rabbits
are typically fairly docile creatures, when threatened and cornered,
they are NASTY fighters!
About the invasion. I would say if it was real and not a computer test scenario, the computer would inform the Pteros. Right?
Only if it was programmed to, but then the programmers would have
to have anticipated the possibility.