u/Famous-Palpitation8

Why is it that science fiction typically bases FTL on the speed of light, as if having that as a base would be useful?

Problem, space is big. Our nearest star other than the sun is 4 lightyears away. With Star Trek warp system, where warp 1 is the speed of light, and it doubles every warp up to 10, you would need 4 years to get to our nearest neighbor on warp one, and even at warp 7-8 you’re still looking at a week’s worth of travel. Not to mention how you’re usually traveling to stars far further out.
Star Wars, at least in legends cannon, is even more ludicrous with a system that works like Star treks but getting slower instead of faster. A class 1 hyperdrive is light speed, class 2 is only 50% light speed. A star destroyer would take 8 years just to get to our nearest neighbor, and that “can make .5 past light speed” falcon Han is bragging about would still take 2 years to get to our nearest neighbor.

Wouldn’t better baseline for an FTL system would be 365c. This means 1 light year per day at minimum? In Star Trek, if warp 1 were 365*c, warp one gets you to our nearest neighbor in 4 days, and with warp, and warp 10 could get you across the Milky Way (100,000ly) in only 7 months. This is much more like how it actually behaves in the story.
Meanwhile the Falcon’s 0.5 hyperdrive would get to our nearest neighbor in 2 days. You would still need a couple of lifetimes to make it across the galaxy, but it’s still better than what we’re given.

My only viable option for a while has been using something that the sub’s rules prohibit me from mentioning, and I want to say upfront that was stupid, and a sin against the rest of you. But it felt like my only option for brainstorming.

My own family won’t give me the time of day to discuss my ideas, they’re not interested in the genres and such. Friends take forever to respond and my procrastination is bad enough.

I can’t use Reddit. Not only is posting anything on this sub a migraine because of the stupid auto-moderator that deletes almost everything you put up for the most minuscule reasons, but it’s Reddit. You have to deal with pervs and fedora wearing self professing “rational” people who ad hominem everything about you and your work and play the damsel whenever you ask them to chill.

I know I need to figure out a system using only a notebook and pen, but I really don’t know how.

I don’t know the first thing about how to research things quickly or about how to organize my thoughts on paper. I’ve been doing this for too long and I’ve hardly got any actual stories finished because I spend so much time brainstorming.

What do I do?

I’ve seen this mostly with romantic rivals, like “the notebook” or season 3 of “the office” (original cut). A character can be completely kind and decent but somehow you come out of it absolutely despising them, and often absolutely adoring the jerk of a protagonist who cheats and lies to get what they want.

This is usually seen as a sign of poor writing of course, however I’m wandering if there is a way to do it on purpose because in my story I want to really toy with the audience, make them adore the villains until they realize what they’re favorite characters actually did and then look back on the hidden nobility of my other characters and thus allow the story to be enjoyed from two completely different perspectives.

After all we live in age where saying the good guys were the villains and vice versa are considered very trendy. I want to use that to my advantage.

This is different from a twist villain obviously. Instead of acting nice with secret malice, I want my characters to not actually have to change that much in public vs private, apart from maybe the leader of my villains.

Is it really immortality or an alien form of reproduction?

Throughout the show and expanded, explanations vary a lot. Usually it’s explained as immortality with a different face, the soul remains in tact but you also have things like memories from past faces being limited, the 10th Doctor’s “everything I am dies” speech, and most damningly the concept of bi generation where a time lord splits in two.

There are a couple of science concepts to discuss like hermaphroditic species that can change sex to the “immortal jellyfish” and even the philosophical idea of the Ship of Theseus.

Is The Doctor the same being as he (she) was in the 60s, or is the next generation just another great grandson or granddaughter.

A very real problem with real green energy is how a lot of it really isn’t green if manufactured incorrectly. Mining for batteries or solar panels in the wrong way can devastate ecosystems, disposing of broken wind turbines in the wrong way can result in toxins not to mention how they can easily kill birds.

Not to mention economic factors. Energy limits can result in people freezing or overheating. Prohibitions on red meat and certain farming methods done incorrectly can result in rising food prices, starvation, jobs terminating, honest civilians switching to a desperate life of crime, including environmental crimes like poaching, which in real life are highly driven by poverty. Meanwhile their might be wealthy greedy bureaucrats pretending to be environmental and progressive, only so that they can game the system, exploiting every loophole to avoid taxes on them and squeezing it out of honest people below them in the name of Gia.

So clearly, there should be a dark and gritty version of solarpunk where society rushed into renewables without thinking, so terrified of their planet dying they sped things up and handed power over to a puppet government ran by filthy rich elites. People starving in massive cities, while criminals commit serious crimes to feed their family.

That sounds like Solar PUNK to me.

I know it’s permitted in the Torah such as Leviticus 17:13, but also there’s the requirement of a trained butcher with a specific knife for herd animals. I’ve even heard, going strictly sola scriptora where the special knife and butcher aren’t mentioned, that Leviticus 17:13 commands the throat to be slit the animal so that and blood drains out while the animal is still alive so you cannot use a gun. Is this true.