Beta and Higher Patron Notice for 03/22/2019
🕑 Added 2019-03-23 00:49:27 +0000 UTCENGINE LIST
added new section Hybrid-Fuel Open-Cycle Gas-Core Nuclear Rocket
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist.php#hybridocgcntr
CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS
added new section Mount Locations
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunconvent.php#mountloc
PRELIMINARY NOTES
added a new section Inventing Handwavium
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/prelimnotes.php#inventhandwave
CONTROL DECK
added new section Moment of Inertia
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/controldeck.php#inertmoment
COLONY SITES
added to Space Colonies a quote from BORDERLANDS OF SCIENCE
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/colonysite.php#pessimist
added new sections Boomtowns and Ghost Towns
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/colonysite.php#boomtownsite
INFRASTRUCTURE
added to Beamed Power a quote from BORDERLANDS OF SCIENCE
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/infrastructure.php#powersatprob
MISSION
added to Oberth Effect a quote from BORDERLANDS OF SCIENCE
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/mission.php#oberthe0
PSIONICS
added a new section Anti-Telepathy Shield
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/psionics.php#psishield
Comments
Nyrath
and psi on the EM band would explain why it seemed to work better in days of yore, before the invention of electricity and radio.
Nyrath
Excellent!
John
On the Psionics topic: For Tri Tac Games, I came up with the fact that Psi powers operated in the EM band. Brain radio and it provided a reason why when Psionics were tested in labs, they always produced mixed results or failed: The testing equipment interfered with their powers! But because they were able to work out what the frequency range was for the Psi broadcast, a simple Faraday cage was all you needed to make your thoughts safe. Thus any facility that was Tempest Shield rated, was also proof against outside Psi snooping. Of course the Unintended Consequence of this, was that you now had a way to artificially boost the signal, a Psi Amplifier. The other thing I posited was that 99.99% of humanity had some level of psychic power. For the vast majority of humanity, it was a low level empathic ability that created a so-called "morphic field" that bound humanity together. And there were ways to induce a higher level of psi ability, some involved studying under a Psi master, other used chemicals with mixed results, but the one method that seemed to work most of the time was the Venkman Process...