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Topic ID: 196
Message ID: 12
#12, RE: notes
Posted by Astynax on Nov-02-20 at 11:30 AM
In response to message #11
>Ok, yes, my terminology could've used some cleaning up.
>
>However, it was always my impression that for some reason fold
>calculations were fantastically complex and required substantial - by
>overtech standards! - computing resources to complete successfully,
>and that while the bombsight is a -marvel- of analog computing it's
>still just doing ballistics calcs.
>

I believe some of the complexity is due to the mind bending distances involved, plus various gravitational forces and other physics fun. More local jumps would be comparatively less painful, though still probably beyond an analog computer.

>But then I got to thinking about how to make it work and remembered we
>have an overtech...well, PDA, I guess, and a time machine (The World)
>so theoretically if we took Gryphon's omnitool, The World, and the
>portable reflex furnace as mentioned, using The World to extend the
>time available to make the calculations...well, maybe it'd work?
>

I'm not sure any sane being, or even most insane beings, would want to mess around with Rube Goldberg's Portable Fold Drive.


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