5/ Last night I had an idea pop into my head, and I don't think I've ever seen it before: DIRECTED graphs what if you can travel from Sol to Alpha Centauri, but not the reverse? or, perhaps, Sol -> AC @ cost 1, AC -> Sol @ cost 2
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7/ too slow old man, that's what this entire thread is about!https://twitter.com/forsoothic/status/1499452351350022151 …
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8/ a variant on the directed-graph model is that the directions / weights of the links change over time ...which brings you into Mark Twain, riverboat pilot situations
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9/ but even without adding that complication, I like the simpler "directed cyclic flows" Imaging that Earth is a node in two cycles, one of length 5, one of length 10 obviously ships can circulate the 5 cycle faster than the 10 ...and going 1 node "upstream" on the 5 (4 down)
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10/ is faster. This implies interesting things about invasions - you can't sent fleets "upstream" except by looping ...so you have a DEW line at all up your "upstream" links, who send warnings down (maybe even a canary - 1 small ship every day if all is well)
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11/ oof! ...or Sargaso Sea...https://twitter.com/forsoothic/status/1499453481257684994 …
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13/ ok, gotta go read up on distributed databases ; more on this later , if at all
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14/ ooh, INTERESTING!https://twitter.com/JayGSlater/status/1499462903149301763 …
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15/ ....hmmm... reminds me a bit of this, actuallypic.twitter.com/Y1PhrgT6dI
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16/ another FTL system I've thought of, which is a bit harder on the
@KarlKGallagher scale, takes some steps to avoid causality problems: you jump form Earth to Alpha C ...and when you get there, there are no radio waves coming from Earth why? you're in a new universe7 replies 0 retweets 21 likesShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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So weird that this is the third time I’ve seen this movie referenced in the last month.
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