8/ Yeah, the fact that I'm getting criticized for having my characters use real-world hacks when the Approved Methods™ don't work is amusing. I did it to show the Aristillus expats as tinkerers with a can-do attitude and old school skills. https://twitter.com/PWilliamKitty/status/1210938691457372161 …
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9/ What else? Ah, my DM friend also criticizes me for having Darcy use a nitrogen flush as a last-ditch approach to empty the water tanks on the Wookie. "This won't work; you need ulage rocket motors." First, I intentionally did not give the Wookie ulage motors to MAKE IT HARD
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10/ Second, the nitrogen system was present in the Wookie bc it was a converted oil tanker and I wanted to show for stylistic / plot reasons that a lot of hardware was cobbled together / repurposed in a crapsack world by tinkerers with a can-do attitude.
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11/ Third, I wanted a hack solution that would solve the problem, but create a new one - less than total purging of the water tanks, which then requires the SECOND hack, which was ditching on-deck cargo.
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12/ Fourth, I am pretty sure that pressurizing a tank from above - even without a membrane to separate liquid from gas pressure, as is done in some cases, WOULD scavenge a noticeable amount of liquid. based on (a) my knowledge of the tuned exhaust systems of 2 stroke engines
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13/ (b) conversations on the topic with my friend Geo (PhD, MIT) re a variety of topics including 2 stroke engines, fluidized beds, and his father (also a PhD in MechE) on using engineered turbulence to adjust dispersal of atomized fluids in internal combustion cylinders
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14/ Now, it could be that I'm wrong about scavenging liquid from a tank with pressurized gas in 0 g. I did the best research I could. ...but given that my interlocutor told me point-blank that you can't run a 3-phase motor on 1 phase WHEN I'VE SEEN IT DONE, I'm not convinced.
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15/ To quote him back at him "you get just about every single fact I know anything about wrong, from the very small things to the very big things, and I have to assume you get all the things I don't know much about wrong, too."
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16/ A third person tags in to say "that thing your interlocutor assures you is impossible, and thus you're wrong about everything? I've seen it with my own eyes". https://twitter.com/libertylineman/status/1210944219138969600 …
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17/ Well, to be fair, I do try to write "hard" SF. The only zero-reason-to-think-it's-possible tech I intend to have is the AG drive. https://twitter.com/jabocka/status/1210944013441884165 …
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> If you wanna be the far-right Dan Brown, so be it

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Replying to @MorlockP
I don't think Tom Hanks would make a good Mike Martin tho.
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