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Well this may work for future phasers, and ceramic/steel plates work well for bullets. Emit the shield from the plate armor and you'll get protection from both

Well this may work for future phasers, and ceramic/steel plates work well for bullets. Emit the shield from the plate armor and you'll get protection from both. Bonus points for chainmail or kevlar suits for knives / shots on non-vital areas. Extra bonus points for gelatin to avoid broken ribs / stopping power from bullets. Basically a spartan suit...

generic92034 3y ago
If you are going that far you might as well think about sending a surrogate [1] instead. :) [1]: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates
- theultdev 3y ago
  Porque no los dos? You can jam the remote control for "surrogates". You could do local AI to workaround that, but then ya'know... skynet... Also distance may be a problem, especially if we're talking space warfare. And surrogates would probably look more like the robot dogs or air/ship drones we currently have though, with some human-like ones sprinkled in. Put a remote control operator in a spartan suit to pilot drones nearby!
  - g19fanatic 3y ago
    One of the benefits of using "human like" surrogates is the compatibility of hardware. Lets say its a spartan type design, if a human needed to be on the front lines for that space warfare to manage things then taking the hardware from a surrogate make all the other things in war easier (fabrication, supply, support, etc...).
theultdev 3y ago
Oh and a (shielded) micro nuclear reactor for power! Now how to solve the heating problem...
- VagabundoP 3y ago
  Nano Black Hole to sink all that extra heat.
  - thfuran 3y ago
    A small blackhole is basically just a very compact nuclear bomb.
    - ben_w 3y ago
      Not one you could carry. One with an initial mass of 606,000 metric tons would have an initial power output of 160 petawatts, most of which was so high energy you'd have to worry about proton-antiproton creation on every atom those photons interact with, and it would still have a 3.5-year lifespan. The lower the mass, the worse it gets. https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2022/05/14-17.06.59.html https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2022/05/14-17.06.59.html
    - theultdev 3y ago
      Perfect, self destruct in case of extreme emergencies / prevent tech from being captured.

generic92034 3y ago

If you are going that far you might as well think about sending a surrogate [1] instead. :) [1]: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates

theultdev 3y ago
Porque no los dos? You can jam the remote control for "surrogates". You could do local AI to workaround that, but then ya'know... skynet... Also distance may be a problem, especially if we're talking space warfare. And surrogates would probably look more like the robot dogs or air/ship drones we currently have though, with some human-like ones sprinkled in. Put a remote control operator in a spartan suit to pilot drones nearby!
- g19fanatic 3y ago
  One of the benefits of using "human like" surrogates is the compatibility of hardware. Lets say its a spartan type design, if a human needed to be on the front lines for that space warfare to manage things then taking the hardware from a surrogate make all the other things in war easier (fabrication, supply, support, etc...).

theultdev 3y ago

Oh and a (shielded) micro nuclear reactor for power! Now how to solve the heating problem...

VagabundoP 3y ago
Nano Black Hole to sink all that extra heat.
- thfuran 3y ago
  A small blackhole is basically just a very compact nuclear bomb.
  - ben_w 3y ago
    Not one you could carry. One with an initial mass of 606,000 metric tons would have an initial power output of 160 petawatts, most of which was so high energy you'd have to worry about proton-antiproton creation on every atom those photons interact with, and it would still have a 3.5-year lifespan. The lower the mass, the worse it gets. https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2022/05/14-17.06.59.html https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2022/05/14-17.06.59.html
  - theultdev 3y ago
    Perfect, self destruct in case of extreme emergencies / prevent tech from being captured.