The Last Jedi: FTL ramming, salt geology, and real green milk
Space combat \n\n
Naval analogies and a callback to a similar discussion in our Valerian episode. Magnetic (fused) torpedoes!
\n\n (FTL) Ramming speed! \n\nRamming vs telefragging. Kamikaze fleets, or attaching telefrag Warp Drives to asteroids and the like. Energy levels with ramming operations at lightspeed. Ruining Star Wars combat by introducing telfragging.
\n\n Explosions in space \n\nExplosions in space shouldn\u2019t make noise, because there isn\u2019t (noise). Not across the near-vacuum, at least. Production of light and shrapnel. Starbursts!
\n\n Explosive decompression \n\nTeleporting Colbert to his doom. For science! Multimodal attacks. Explosive decompression. Sausage people and asphyxiation. Freezing in space and how thew force disables all bets. Sausage people and elasticity of human tissues. Consciousness vs useful consciousness.
\n\n Skimmer ships \n\nHydrofoils cum \u201calasofoils.\u201d Flight engineering and \u201cdragging sticks.\u201d
\n\n \n hydrofoil boat\n\n \n\n U.S. Navy CC-0\n\n \n\n Salt planet \n\n
\u201cSalthoth.\u201d \u201cHey, it\u2019s salt.\u201d\xa0 How salt flats form on earth. Salt rising and drying from seasonal flooding. Salt-friendly bacteria and weird oxidation.
\n\n Green milk \n\nYum! Domesticating mammals for their milk. Mailing baboons. Milk\u2019s macronutrient ratios and the micronutrients that color it with the bulk removed e.g. for cheese). How it\u2019s kinda green irl too. Domesticating the aurochs and testing the nipples.
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