17 November 2024

Machines To Make The Machines

There was an old BBC show called "Connections" and it was fascinating.

They'd tell you how two, seemingly, unrelated items or events led from one to another with lots of steps in between.

It really colored how I looked at technology and it's why I notice some things that some people don't or I question things that others don't examine.

Today's connection:  Are the meson gun and nuke damper related?

Yes.

It's explicitly stated in GURPS: Traveller.

It isn't in LBB Traveller, but I'd speculated that they had to be related because the meson gun is keeping the mesons from decaying until they're at the desired distance; and that implies we're manipulating shit like a nuke damper does.

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