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Logistics for your Spacey-Ship game

Started by Spike, October 17, 2017, 10:20:26 AM

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estar

#30
October 23, 2017, 02:17:26 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;1002936To look at them or actually eat them?

The chocolate muffin tastes like a chocolate muffin. The only downside is that it is on the dry side.

Dumarest

#31
October 23, 2017, 02:42:31 PM
Quote from: estar;1002945The chocolate muffin tastes like a chocolate muffin. The only downside is that it is on the dry side.

So it tastes like a bad chocolate muffin. Why do I need nano for that? My mom can make bad muffins. :D

Headless

#32
October 23, 2017, 04:46:26 PM
Quote from: estar;1002945The chocolate muffin tastes like a chocolate muffin. The only downside is that it is on the dry side.

Have you eaten one?

Spike

#33
October 23, 2017, 07:31:22 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;1002951So it tastes like a bad chocolate muffin. Why do I need nano for that? My mom can make bad muffins. :D

Because... SCIENCE!!!!



What other reason is there, really?
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estar

#34
October 23, 2017, 08:22:43 PM
Quote from: Headless;1002996Have you eaten one?

Yes had them multiple times.

Dumarest

#35
October 23, 2017, 08:39:10 PM
Quote from: estar;1003052Yes had them multiple times.

Wait, the first one was dry but you ate them repeatedly? Did you top them off with Spam? :p

estar

#36
October 23, 2017, 10:01:56 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;1003054Wait, the first one was dry but you ate them repeatedly? Did you top them off with Spam? :p

It wasn't so dry as to be unpalatable. It was a chocolate muffin a bit on the dry side. I tasted better and I tasted worse.

Headless

#37
October 23, 2017, 10:09:51 PM
You could put butter on it.  Or would that short out the tiny robots?

Dumarest

#38
October 23, 2017, 10:18:04 PM
Quote from: Headless;1003071You could put butter on it.  Or would that short out the tiny robots?

That's why they use Parkay.

kosmos1214

#39
October 23, 2017, 11:08:08 PM
Quote from: JeremyR;1001368If we have starships, then I would imagine that food technology is also much more advanced today. If not the already mentioned food replicators, then advanced hydroponics that can grow about anything in a limited amount of space, using recycled waste as ingredients.

I saw a thing about Japanese vertical farming. It's pretty impressive. Imagine that 200-400 years into the future
The one that all ways sticks with me is an idea from Crest of the stars is the idea of bio-meat probably made in A vat of some kind and apparently it could be grown fast enough to feed the station though it was only A few dozen people.

Quote from: Headless;1002733Its not the post scarcity part I don't like its the fact that Nanites can do any thing.  So you end up with the same solution for every problem, when take to the extream.  Hole in your ship, nanite self repair.
You've beeen shot? Or have cancer Nanites.  
Nothing to eat, Nanites.
Need a suit of armour? Nanites.
Not sure what to wear?  The dress is Nanites and it shifts and changes color and transparency depending on mood.

I don't like nano tech.
You might want to take A look at A ps2 game called Xenosaga it's all backround information and not always as detailed as I'd like but it manages to successfully display A society that [A] still has scarcity and still has traditional methods of manufacture because it hasen't and/or can't replace such.  
Fun fact it's also where my user name sake comes from.

Headless

#41
October 24, 2017, 07:45:31 PM
What do they do for food in the culture novels?

Star wars?  (It better not be midiclorinas)

estar

#42
October 24, 2017, 09:30:02 PM
Quote from: Headless;1003329What do they do for food in the culture novels?

Build really big starships. Like big enough to hold 10+ billion sentients.

Basically everything is 100% automated managed by the AIs. The Culture don't really live on planets rather they build a variety of space habitats including ringworlds called Orbitals. The average Orbital has a surface area of 20 earths.

Headless

#43
October 24, 2017, 11:03:56 PM
Then they eat the sentients?  Those savage canablistic Minds!

Ok so at that size they must have a fully functioning biosphere.  100% recycle closed system.
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