2/ I worked with this guy for a few years, and we had lots of long discussions about digital physicshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Margolus …
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3/ And the AG drive in the novels is relatively thought-through in terms of how it's implemented. It does obey conservation of energy. N.B. the part when the Wookie crash lands - there are subtle details there talking about energy densities of batteries.
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4/ More subtle details in the scenes set in Lucknow, India when the open source ships are being built.
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5/ Here's a teaser from novel #3, Right and Duty, where the digital physics is promoted from a background element to becomes its own subplot:pic.twitter.com/XXEpXiLaY8
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6/ HAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHAAAAAAA no The AG drive, correctly understood, is the most insane WMD ever invented. Because once you pull the hood off and start to think about how it works... ever program in BASIC and use the PEEK command on a 6502 ?https://twitter.com/thepiclord/status/1003716417135443968 …
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I Look forward to that. I had largely assumed that the AG drive was a great way to have a cheap and efficient space transit method that sidesteps the "any cheap and efficient rocket system is a potential WMD" implications. Harder to justify open-sourcing other kids of drive.
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