Has anime ever done good hard science fiction?
Gunbuster
Planetes
>>113541860
First, you have to define "good".
Madoka.
The Starship Troop OAV was the best rendition of Robert Heinlein's book I've seen. Makes the live action movie look like a unfaithful pile of dog crap by comparison.
>>113541883
Gunbuster is about as hard as Noriko's tatas.
The ending is fantastic, though.
Aldnoah Zero, obviously
>>113541900
Agreed. Though it wasn't anything groundbreaking, and there were definitely some really big "fiction" bits, I loved this series.
>>113541860
2001 nights
Science Fiction is arguable the most successful and well received genre for anime.
Naruto
{spoiler]BRs and Pinoys really believe in it[/spoiler]
>>113542036
>Science Fiction is arguable the most successful and well received genre for anime.
"Hard" sci-fi implies a rigorous adherence to only doing things that we know are physically possible.
Guilty Crown
Code Geass
Aldnoah Zero
Gundam Wing
Gundam Seed
MD Geist
Fate/Stay Night
Sword Art Online
All hard sci fi that makes every other medium look like fucking garbage.
>>113541952
They are unfaithful piles of crap. That's kinda the point.
>>113542119
>Code Geass
>Sword Art Online
>hard sci-fi
nigger what
>>113542119
0/10
seriously, bruh.
>>113542149
Its one of those le epic trolls man. I would have thought that would be obvious.
>>113541860
Hard sci-fi can mean one of two things:
>focussing on physics, biology and chemistry as opposed to the humanities/
>drawing on real technologies and science with no or minimal handwaving or sillytech
>>113541952
I'm convinced the movie is meant to undermine the book. The books message is all about militarism and service to the nation. I don't think Verhoeven ever had any intention of porting its message across faithfully. Instead he did a wacky Vietnam allegory.
>>113541963
It's basicallyThe Forever war
Except space is full of Aether. Also ... everything else.
It's still just about the hardest sci-fi you're going to see in anime.
VOTOMS
>>113541860
Armored Trooper Votoms on the surface seems very believable in it's tech, arguably even the way Scopedogs are presented seems to make even mecha believable.
However, I'm only so far in, and I just know there's probably going to be some kind of psychic shit going on later though, I think I've heard something like that.
>>113542149
hes obviously bait why reply?
>>113542117
If it was like that, then we'd have no extra-solar SF
Hard science fiction implies an attention to technical details, fictional but plausible or rooted in reality
For example, Cowboy Bebop is pretty plausible (warp gates have been used in other hard sci-fi), but the tech is never really explained and it's less sci-fi and more "crime stories on different planerts", so that would be soft sci-fi
>>113542196
>I'm convinced the movie is meant to undermine the book
That's exactly it, the director literally stated he didn't read the book and wanted to do satire.
>>113542261
Even if someone's only pretending to be retarded it's worth having someone point out what they're saying is retarded or else the newfags might actually fall for it.
>>113542265
>soft sci-fi
![1865w25lv5z4zjpg[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rOljPPE.jpg "1865w25lv5z4zjpg[1].jpg")
Apparently SyFy is going to do a tv show adaptation of this, but it'd be far better as an animated series. There's no way you can correctly portray the weird proportions of the OPA colonists in live action
>>113542265
Hardness of scifi does not depend solely on explanations.
>then we'd have no extra-solar SF
Yes, we do. It is just not be very hard.
I think you are both right. The hard scifi is rooted in science we know and tries to make proper explanations for the leaps in technology it comes up with.
>>113542196
nah people misunderstand the book
heinlein wrote a lot of short fiction for bright teenagers where he'd be like "here's what sounds like a good idea, explain to yourselves why it's bad", starship troopers was doing that for roman-lite fascism
like, the longest piece of dialogue in the book is literally two and a half pages of a teacher telling the main character "this is great everything's fantastic you fucking retard i can't believe you're so stupid that you don't get it" and then the main character just goes "oh cool thanks for explaining it to me" and sits down like a chump
that whole scene was designed to piss off high school age kids and make them think really hard about why the teacher might be wrong
>tfw there will never be a ringworld ova
>>113542119
I think the weirdest thing about this post is that SAO is actually by far the most plausible, and could actually happen within the next ~50 years. Early VR is already here in the form of the Oculus Rift. Having a neural interface and control over the five senses is the next step.
>>113542177
>trolls
No, it isn't.
Not every joke is a troll. Look up what trolling is about.
>le epic
Fuck off.
>>113542326
if I reply to this do I get backwards-reverse-baited?
do you see the irony in all this?
GiTS and Patlabor are probably the closest that I can think of, although both (of course) have their issues. GiTS' particular brand of transhumanism relies a little too heavily on Cartesian dualism being literal truth, while Patlabor never explains how its titular robots are able to support their own weight or move.
>>113542326
No, it isn't.
>pretending to be retarded
He was making a joke. It's /a/'s failure for wanting to be trolled that turned this into something more.
>>113542374
If that's what he was going for then mission successful, because it pissed me off and I didn't buy into it.
>>113542428
Labors are small enough to be in the realm of plausibility. You could probably make the numbers work if you sat down and tried.
>>113542452
>I was only making a joke by pretending to be retarded
Yeah, ok son.
>>113542413
>am I fitting in yet
Moretsu is far from a hard sci-fi show, but the sci-fi it does do is pretty detailed and fantastic.
>>113542399
VR may be possible, but the tech is explained in a retarded way.
>>113541952
The book was trash. The anime was ok. The live action was a masterpiece.
Knights of Sidonia
>>113542504
Anon, you dense motherfucker. He was not pretending to be retarded. That would have been to bring up one stupid anime and defend it like a stupid fanboy.
Instead he brought up a series of anime that didn't fit the criteria, to give you the opportunity to figure out "hey, something is wrong with the list! Oh, wait, that's supposed to be a joke!".
Unfortunately you failed to do that.
>>113541860
Hard sci-fi is basically science fiction that is plausible given what we presently understand about the physical universe.
It is not a binary system, it is a scale. Some things are harder or softer than other things.
The most important facet of Hard science fiction is internal consistency. 40k for example, fails at this dramatically, while 2001 A Space Odyssey excels at it.
Hard science fiction does not necessarily have to be 1:1 with reality. Many hard sci-fi novels feature, for example, a 'plot device' of some sort that makes everything else in the novel possible. This is typically a faster than light drive, or some form of faster than light communication, but varies.
If the creative work is internally consistent and closely follows the laws of physics while exploring future concepts, you can probably classify it as hard science fiction.
>>113542592
Tricked.
Betterman?
I remember that show having some serious biology shit going down.
>>113542626
ftl pig dick
fuck to the ftl, shit eater
>>113542631
No, you tricked yourself, in your desperate need for an argument.
>>113542667
English please
Rate my hard scifi list:
Steins;Gate
Denn? Coil
Eden of the East
Pale Cocoon
>>113542536
>VR may be possible
The Rift /is/ VR, with the right software to go with it. All it lacks is full sensory immersion, which isn't required for VR.
Agreed though that it isn't explained well at all, and the whole 'microwave your brain' thing wouldn't happen. Any device with that much power would never get approval for public betas - forget actually making it to stores. It's even shown that that lower-power units not capable of cooking brains are perfectly capable of the same VR experience, so it doesn't even make sense within the show's world.
>>113542396
In the later novels everyone turns into furries.
>>113541860
Planetes is the obvious one, it's been mentioned above. Moonlight Mile is the second one that comes to mind. I guess you could call Space Brothers hard scifi too. Time of Eve is as close to anything from Asimov getting an anime. That kind of fits.
>>113541860
"Science fiction" does not exist.
Science involves real things that are real.
Fiction is inherently a story or idea that is nonexistence, hence fictional.
You cannot combine real and fake. It doesn't exist.
>>113541900
Planetes is awful and you should feel bad for liking it
>>113542705
FTL piggu go home.
>>113542354
Is better.
>>113542793
>"Science fiction" does not exist.
Oh this gonna be good.
>>113542705
ftl is shit and lazy and makes bad hard sci fi
blindsight is the best hard sci fi novel published this decade, prove me wrong fucker
Cowboy Bebop is pretty hard if you leave out the hyperspace gates.
>>113542796
>User was banned for this post
>>113542796
Your taste is awful and you should feel bad for being born.
>>113542793
Ok then, well go with "Hard Speculative Fiction" even though it sounds stupid since apparently being stupid pleases you.
>>113542782
Is moonlight mile worth watching?
>>113541860
Macross Plus came close.
>muh spess oprah
Is Crest/Banner of the Stars hard science fiction?
>>113542840
It's one of the few shows where you don't just stop suddenly in the middle of space when your fuel runs out.
>>113542722
>Eden of the East
Holy FUCK I tried my best to repress any memories of that crock of shit and you had to bring it back upI NEED TO SEE YOUR JOHNNY
>>113542819
blindsight was edgy shit for teenagers who like the idea of sociopathic vampires taking over humanity in space.
>>113542840
Hard-boiled, even.
>>113542536
Retarded, how? That's basically how a neural interface should function for VR. It's basically a dream simulator.
>>113542743
>microwave your brain
The original Nervgear was made expressly for that purpose.
>Any device with that much power would never get approval for public betas
Look at the real world. Every day there's a story of some bloke burning his face from using a smartphone while charging.
>>113542864
It is if you like manly men doing space things and.
Not anime, but Two Faces of Tomorrow. It's an adaptation of a novel though
>>113542819
Except it's theoretically possible, in fact NASA has already observed results that would make the creation of an Alcubierre drive plausible
>>113542875
>aliens
>ftl
>space navies
>beam weapons
no
>>113541900
Right answer. If there isn't a moon colony by 2075 I'm gonna be pissed.
>>113542864
Depends.
I liked it in the beginning, but for me it's too much action-fuel.
There's constantly something going wrong. Sure, otherwise the MC wouldn't get to be a hero, but in the end you'll just yell: "Why go to space at all if every spacecraft explodes within 2 days?
>>113542916
>NASA
>>113542916
No they haven't. It's still wild speculation, just one recent experiment made it marginally easier to make shit up about.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/warpstat_prt.htm
>>113542875
MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES MINES
It's nowhere close to hard sci-fi, but I was really impressed with the sci-fi elements of the Gankutsuou setting. It managed to be stylish as fuck while elegantly maintaining the basic principles of the original story.
>>113542943
You won't even be alive by 2075.
>>113542983
His skeleton is going to be pissed.
>>113541860
Gintama
>>113542983
Humanity will have invented immortality too.
>>113542907
>Retarded, how?
>It runs on quantum computers therefore everything is possible!
>if you want something very desperately, quantum mechanics may change the rules of the game
>>113542940
Beam weapons are plausible, just impractical. I forget the fucking name of it, but there's that one setting where beam weapons are treated as situational secondary weapon and visible so their operators know where they're firing. They're mostly used for killing civilians who aren't in protected buildings.
Something like that wouldn't be too far fetched.
>>113542943
Our space age will have ended by then.
There will be no moon base, no Mars terraforming, no gondolas, no giant space children, no space bugs and no space elves.
>>113542961
All I'm saying is it's good enough to put in a hard sci-fi story
>>113543019
>It runs on quantum computers
What? I don't remember any quantum computers in SAO.
>>113543047
Not even remotely.
>>113542963
You need to stop breaking global rule 3.
>>113542983
2075 is only 61 years away.
>>113542428
There's a special, Minipato, that discusses the mechanics of labors and they admit that the design aesthetics came before function. Their bodies besides the joints are made of fiberglass, aluminum, or carbon fiber, was one made up factoid from it.
>>113543012
Yeah and what are you gonna do if we don't?
Maybe get even more mad?
If you spin in your grave fast enough we can at least harness you as an infinite energy source.
>>113542943
Enjoy the 10th War on terror instead
>>113543039
>I forget the fucking name of it, but there's that one setting where beam weapons are treated as situational secondary weapon and visible so their operators know where they're firing. They're mostly used for killing civilians who aren't in protected buildings.
Reminds me of Dune, where beam weapons are archaic inefficient technology because of their enormous power requirements for a low damage output and the pseudoatomic shield annihilation reaction. If a beam hits an active shield, everything blows up, so it's a mutual annihilation effect. Consequently, beams are only used in suicide attacks and for killing people with no shields, and fighting between soldiers (who are all shielded) has regressed to hand-to-hand swordfighting due to shields being permeable by slow-moving objects.
Well Steins Gate is considered to be hard sci-fi since it makes perfect sense and follows laws of physics and it was pretty good.
>>113543053
That's how they explained Kirito surviving his death.
It's what became Accel World later.
So what's the space odyssey of anime?
>>113541860
Stein's;Gate?
>>113543043
>no Mars terraforming
Until they figure out how to manufacture a magnetic field around Mars or remelt its core, terraforming that planet would be an enormous waste of time.
>>113543075
i'm not the one pretending i read a book instead of a few amazon reviews on a book
>>113543116
Kaiba
>>113543103
Pay exorbitant amounts of money to have my body frozen so I can come back when humanity has ascended.
>>113543043
>no gondolas
Don't remind me.
>>113543120
Is this nigger serious?
>>113542912
the same artist did an adaptation of Inherit the Stars recently.
>>113543127
No, you're the one who looks like a 12-year-old.
>>113543047
There's just no science to support it yet, it's all speculation. Every story saying that test proved it was possible was written by people that didn't understand it, no actual scientists hold that position.
>>113543124
This. Terraforming Mars is a stupendous waste of time. Ganymede, on the other hand, might be a decent prospect, provided we have the tech to terraform anything to begin with. Given that we can't figure out how to fucking feed half our own planet, I don't see that being in the cards in the next five generations.
>>113543110
What? No. I don't remember any quantum computers in Accel World either. Kirito surviving at the end of Aincrad was because of IS, not a quantum computing thing. It's easy to see if you think of full immersion VR as a dream simulator.
>>113543185
haha okay buddy
>>113542428
It's not like robots supporting their own weight is somehow impossible.
You do realize dinosaurs massing over 40 tons existed in reality, right? They didn't sink into the center of the planet like /k/ would have you believe.
>>113543106
That just reminds me how one of my favorite things in science fiction is the plot finding an excuse to include melee fights. Dune and LotGH do it great.
>>113543163
>v.1 c.7-8 by Illuminati-Manga (303d ago)
Gundam. Except 00.
>>113543188
Well, yes it's pretty much all speculation, but if you want to place your story hundreds of years into the future, I think you could get away with using it
>>113543188
Learn what OR means.
>>113543131
We don't have the technology to freeze bodies and unfreeze them without killing them.
>>113543254
Only if you buy into NewTypes being another stage of human perceptive evolution and not psychic nonsense.
>>113543262
But that's not hard sci fi. Pushing it that far into the future is a copout for not being able to support the fiction half with science.
>>113542530
>pretty detailed and fantastic.
>fantastic
>fantastical
>no
i want more down to earth realism, not SUPER AMAZING ENERGY SOURCE! HUGE SHIPS WITH PERFECTLY FUNCTIONING SEWAGE SYSTEMS!
I want lain in space.
>>113543192
>Given that we can't figure out how to fucking feed half our own planet
That's not a tech problem, but a feature of capitalism.
We have the food, but they don't have the money to buy it.
>>113543294
Lain turning into the God of the Internet wasn't exactly the pinnacle of "down to earth realism"
>>113542572
>book trash
People that think Heinlein a fascist for reading Starship Troopers must feel he's a godless gommie after reading Stranger in a Strange Land. Right?
Literally one of the stupidest opinions on the planet. And an enduring one at that. >>113541952
They're too large. The power armor is stated to be like a "towering man" not a fucking giant.
>>113543249
LOGH was pretty hard. Except why are there parts of space they can't fly?! Go around the flipping Death Star, dummies!
MJP and Moretsu Pirates. Gundam too. LotGH, Voices of a Distant Star, Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star, I guess.
>>113543222
You do realize that a tank would take out those dinosaurs easily, right?
>>113543254
You are now aware Gundam had space stations anchored in Lagrangian points 5 years before Neuromancer did it. If someone else came up with that idea I'm not aware. But I'm sure someone else did.
>>113543340
Space is warped around the corridor. >>113543249
Dune does it well. LoGH is stupid. And I like and frequently defend the space battles from dumb people.
>>113543335
I never said he's a fascist. I'm just saying that book is wildly overrated and made me decide to put off reading the rest of his books in favor of better authors.
>>113543327
I was more referring to the climates of certain locations being incompatible with farming. Africa could feed itself if there wasn't a giant desert sitting on its face. China's in a similar boat: lot of semi-worthless to worthless landmass in its borders. Trying to graft Earthlike food productivity on an alien surface when we can't even reclaim land lost to our own deserts is an absurd prospect.
>>113543127
Joke is, I actually did read the book, and I thought it was interesting but I found the entire human-vampire plot completely fucking retarded.
Reminds me of all those kids who proudly claim themselves as self-diagnosed socio/psychopaths. As though it's somehow a good thing and not actually a serious mental handicap with identifiable problems in the formation of structures within the brain.
When a guy can go from normal functioning human being to psychopath because he had a railroad spike driven through his head, you might want to give pause to the idiotic idea promoted in media that psychopathy is a trait of geniuses. It isn't, and multiple studies suggest a correlation between psychopathy and low IQ's.
The actual mental illness of geniuses is Schizophrenia.
Check out Starship Operators. Story's kinda mediocre but it's pretty hard sci-fi.
>>113543354
I don't even know what point you were trying to make but you fuck it up hard.
>>113543354
I'd watch that.
>>113543378
>If someone else came up with that idea I'm not aware.
Lagrange?
>>113543398
I'm not sure if we really can't.
So far, there's just no profit in it.
>>113543192
>Ganymede, on the other hand, might be a decent prospect
For, like, mining water or something. I vaguely recall NASA saying that Mars' gravity was about the lowest amount of gravity that a human could conceive a child in safely and without any crazy defects. There was an article about possible manned missions to Mars and speculation about what would happen if a couple had a baby in a 0 gravity environment.
>>113542983
>2075
>Not having a cybernetic brain and cloned body
>>113543422
That would be likely, wouldn't it? I looked the man up and he lived in the 1700s though.
Moretsu probably is most close thing I have seen in past four years.
Unless you want to count Gundam Unicorn...
>>113543422
You know that came out like 40 years after Gundam right?
>>113543422
Lagrange + O'Neill = win
>>113543288
Learn what hard sci-fi means. And look at the representative works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction#Representative_works
>>113543335
Heinlein used his novels as ways to explore political concepts.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress explores the non-retarded form of libertarianism. (e.g. not anarcho-capitalism)
>>113543453
Ganymede has gravity. It also has a magnetosphere and an atmosphere. It also might have continents beneath its ice layer. Ganymede > Mars in every way that matters except for distance.
>>113543354
>>113543421
Gate? They fight a fire dragon at one point.
>>113543500
If you think hard scifi includes FTL you need to read harder scifi.
>>113543514
I didn't know there was a non-retarded form, I thought those 2 things were synonymous. Gotta add that to my backlog.
>>113543533
I said what not read, call me when they animate it. (that one scene from outbreak company was pretty good though)
>>113543540
Stop making up your own definitions of terms older than you.
>>113543398
Africa could feed itself if the people living there weren't half retarded and weren't drowned in surplus free food from western nations that their own agricultural industry can't compete against.
>>113541860
>hard science
>ring field that dense
>spacecraft just dragging itself through it
nah
Is Psyco-Pass hard sci-fic?
>>113543540
Hard/soft scifi isn't an on/off switch you ignoramus.
>>113543523
>Ganymede has gravity.
Ganymede has a third the gravitational pull that Mars does. That's the point I was making.
Mars is 3.71 m/s^2
Ganymede is 1.428 m/s^2
>>113543422
It was actually Euler. Because Euler discovered everything.
>>113543540
True hard scifi doesn't even involve space travel. The ISS is the extend of mankind's ability to survive in space.
>>113543583
>drowned in surplus free food
>half the continent is starving
Nobody but warlords and government officials are drowning in food in Africa. The point is that if we don't give enough of a shit to eradicate wasted landmass on the planet we're standing on, nobody is going to give a shit about altering landmass on a different planet.
>>113543607
Maybe like semi-hard
>>113543646
Half-chub at best
>>113543574
>There is a degree of flexibility in how far from "real science" a story can stray before it leaves the realm of hard SF.[10] Some authors scrupulously avoid such technology as faster-than-light travel, while others accept such notions (sometimes referred to as "enabling devices", since they allow the story to take place[11]) but focus on realistically depicting the worlds that such a technology might make possible. In this view, a story's scientific "hardness" is less a matter of the absolute accuracy of the science content than of the rigor and consistency with which the various ideas and possibilities are worked out.[10]
Good hard sf writers dont' use FTL. Lazy ones do, but that makes them less hard. I'm not against FTL in scifi, just dont' delude yourself thinking it's hard.
>>113543609
No shit pickle dick, it's a scale, and FTL is on the soft side of it.
>>113543646
>>113543672
Stop making science fiction lewd!
>>113543611
And yet Ganymede can hold a stronger atmosphere than Mars can. How does it all work?
>>113543556
Non-retarded libertarianism basically axes all the economic wankery that ancaps try to stuff into the ideology.
anarcho-capitalism is the reason that people think libertarians want to completely eliminate the government and give literally everything to corporations and the rich. In truth it's basically just: Don't be fucking dicks - the ideology. The basic principles are that everyone has certain natural rights, and we should refrain from infringing on those rights wherever possible; economics isn't even a thing Libertarianism touches.
I'm not good with the terminology. Is this hard sci-fi?
>>113541883
i totally agree with you bro
>>113543687
Again, it needs repeating: stop making up your own definitions of terms older than you.
Even though it's soaked to the bone in religious allegory, Evangelion is, at its heart, science fiction. Even down to how life was started on earth, ultimately it was high level science.
>>113543583
Africa wont be able to feed itself until it builds a decent transportation infrastructure. No industry in that corner of the world can thrive until they build some railroads and decent highways.
>>113543707
The sun is stealing the one of Mars.
>>113543728
>quotes Wikipedia
>making up your own definitions
yeah we're done here you don't even know what's going on
>>113543707
It's because of the magnetic field surrounding Ganymede. Mars doesn't have one, which is why it doesn't have an atmosphere. That shit gets blasted away whenever the sun looks at it wrong.
>>113543645
Except that if that were to mean the colony could be independent from Earth, the benefit to the survival of the species would make it extremely desirable
>>113543687
Read your own quote.
>In this view, a story's scientific "hardness" is less a matter of the absolute accuracy of the science content than of the rigor and consistency with which the various ideas and possibilities are worked out.
>>113543707
It's just proof of intelligent design.
>>113543749
No.
>>113543523
Everything is better than Mars. Even Venus is better than Mars as long as you don't mind living in Cloud City.
>>113543766
See >>113543777
Just because you quoted it doesn't mean you actually understood what the paragraph meant. Stop making up your own definitions.
>>113543777
Further elaborating that it's a scale, with FTL being on the soft side that lazy writers use out of convenience and makign their works less hard. It's all right there.
>>113543757
>Africa wont be able to feed itself until it builds a decent transportation infrastructure.
Africa won't be able to build a decent infrastructure until the west stops supporting a state of constant war in Africa.
>>113543687
Please see>>113542793 and stop being retarded.
This thread is too complicated for me
>>113543707
Ganymede is protected by Jupiter's massive magnetic field.
Mars has no magnetic field.
Mars' atmosphere has been stripped away over hundreds of millions of years by its interaction with solar radiation/wind
If we want to terraform mars and have it last longer than a couple hundred million years, we need to also create a planetary sized magnetic field for it.
This might actually be possible with a giant satellite producing a magnetic field of some kind in the Martian L1 point.
>>113543381
Dune is a good example of sci-fi with some unrealistic elements (shields, the Spacing Guild, the spice's transhuman shit) that remains consistent to its internal rules and is better off because of it. It also helps that it has some genuinely innovative and well-implemented concepts, like FTL travel that isn't taken for granted as the product of scientific advance.
>>113543807
>Stop making up your own definitions.
Repeating it doesn't make it true anon.
>>113543757
Even if those were built, by some miracle, transportation costs would be huge because every delivery would be through territory that makes Mad Max seen lawful.
![[Commie] Psycho-Pass - 09 [E69CD437].mkv_snapshot_06.36_[2012.12.09_00.22.58].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/v6pCDCo.jpg "[Commie] Psycho-Pass - 09 [E69CD437].mkv_snapshot_06.36_[2012.12.09_00.22.58].jpg")
http://www.kheper.net/topics/scifi/grading.html
>>113543821
Learn to read. That sentence has nothing to do with what you're saying. It means that the scale is based on the rigor and consistency of ideas, not actual adherence to known physics.
>>113543832
>Allowing one of the largest and most resource-laden continents on the planet to stabilize and develop
Go ahead and shit over all your ancestors' work at establishing Western hegemony in the first place, Sven.
>>113543853
It's repeated so you can realize that it's true, because you're too dumb to know your mistake the first time around.
>inb4 that wasn't me
Same difference.
>>113543804
>:Venus
Even harder to deal with than Mars.
>>113543832
Africans make africa unstable.
This is starting to become a /pol/ thread. Can we get back to talking about terraforming Mars?
>>113543955
Africans make America unstable.
>>113543411
then you missed the part where the vampire thing isa complete red herring used by the AI and it was supposed to be kind of stupid
and uh i think you missed a big part of the story, dude. it was about self-awareness and social behavior and their relation to evolution. vampires are solo predators so it didn't have a use for self-awareness and in losing it also shed deterministic thinking, but it kept its social graces as a reflexive camouflage. the whole point of them was as the middle point of a spectrum formed by the crew, as badly damaged people as they were, andthe alien, a sapient, non-self-aware, non-social species that was incapable of understanding either of those.
>>113541860
>hard science fiction
What do you mean exactly?
Crest/Banner of the Stars are sci-fi/space opera, but I wouldn't really consider them to be "hard" sci-fithere hasn't been one show that beats CotS/BotS since they were released 10 years ago. This is a fact.
Maybe it's just me, but honestly my favorite part of science fiction is the description of the technology itself and how it works and what the doohickies and the rechenbockers do.
I could read a 2,000 page novel 1,500 of that were only descriptions and technologyporn.
Now I kinda want an anime about cute space mechanics fixing up mechas and describing their internal workings.
>>113543848
lack of plate tectonics is a far bigger issue since it prevents outgassing and thus replenishing of the atmosphere.
earth also lost its primary atmosphere (huge amounts of hydrogen and helium) to space. the losses due to kinetic effects (water being dissociated in the upper atmosphere and hydrogen escaping) are small enough thanks to the magnetic field that outgassing of lava and hydrothermal vents can compensate it.
Once the sun heats up (in a billion years) due to aging and earth loses its water the plates won't be "greased" anymore, lock up and tectonic movement will stop, thus also stop the atmosphere from being replenished. At that point it'll slowly get stripped away. Much slower than mars though.
>>113543935
Nah mate.
50-60km altitude has earth-normal temperature and pressure. You're above the sulfuric acid clouds, sit in a band of air that circles the planet in roughly an earth-day, and you have nearly the same amount of gravity as on earth.
It's literally the most habitable place in our solar system after earth itself.
>>113543848
>lashing Jupiter's magnetic field to Mars via satellite
I'd fund it, but it still requires technology we don't even have in our sights yet. I stand by the premise that a body already having a magnetosphere in place is, on the short term, a better prospect than one that doesn't have one at all.
>>113543935
Venus' upper atmosphere is very nearly the same as earth's and functions as a lifting gas. You'd have to live in balloon cities but that isn't a big deal when you're talking planetary colonization. Hypothetically you could float/drop a city down from orbit and start living in it immediately.
>>113543989
ebola-chan is working on it
>>113543877
> based on the rigor and consistency of ideas, not actual adherence to known physics
So, include ftl and disregard all known physics but just to make it's consistent in the story and you somehow still want to pretend it's hard scifi. Cool. Go for it.
>>113543955
>Africans under french payroll
FTFY
>>113543378
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Neill_cylinder
Dragons are hard scifi too now, because you know, dinosaurs existed, so dragons are totally plausible.
>>113543804
>venus
HIGH PRESSURE SULFURIC ACID VAPOR AT 450°C
That shit is so corrosive that a scrubbing your skin with a metal brush would be a healthier choice.
>>113543998
You'd have to create a structure that stands tall enough to stay above the acid clouds - and is resistant to acid. Actually, that might be cheaper than trying to terraform an entire planet.
>>113543719
More or less, the main premise has to do with the wait calculation, so it very much feels like a sci-fi story you'd find from the 60s or 70s.
Surprised They Were 11 hasn't been mentioned. It stays pretty hard, for a sufficiently advanced interstellar community of cadets in training.
>>113543994
>I-it's not like I wanted to fix this local continuum transmorgifier for you or anything. I just had an extra acceleration drive sitting int the shop.
>bwaka
>>113544089
>not "O'Neillinder"
This guy knows shit about marketing
>>113543978
>terraforming Mars?
Impossible.
Human technology can't keep humans in deep space safely. Anyone who tries to reach the moon will suffer long-term illness and premature death. The most humans will achieve on Mars is the possibility of sending a small group of researchers on a one-way suicide mission to study Mars before succumbing to a lack of resources and illness.
We probably won't even get the chance before the garbage belt in space makes space travel impossible.
>>113544104
>I didn't read the thread
See >>113543998 and >>113544030 and stop being a retard.
>>113543998
So your idea is just to orbit the planet? We can do that now, right here. Nothing at all to do with terraforming Venus, which even if it were possible under current tech would be an undertaking so massive it would make Mars's problems look like chump change in comparison. Plus, Venus has zero rotation, shit would be some boring-ass weather even if it wasn't 700+ K.
>ctrl f
>no alita
>no gunnm
Step it up, senpai.
>>113543556
it's still pretty retarded because it's an ideology that relies on having a group of capable, independent, non-asshole people that just love freedom and independence a whole heckuva lot and have good enough land and weapons to not have to compromise
>>113544091
Bist du sauer
>>113544089
>>113544089
Neat
>>113544140
>hard sci fi
super cyborgs get out
>>113544159
A cooler O'Neill than that one.
>>113544104
>That shit is so corrosive that a scrubbing your skin with a metal brush would be a healthier choice.
We have like three dozen different materials that are immune to sulfuric acid corrosion. Some of them, like Teflon, can be coated to just about anything.
Reminder: We live on a planet with an extremely corrosive gas called Oxygen.
>>113544055
Sure. Create an entirely new universe with its own set of extensive, exhaustive and consistent physical laws.
Also see:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/warp/ideachev.html
and >>113543871
Conclusion: you guessed it, stop making up your own definition of terms older than you.
>>113544139
Ridding an air current that circulates the planet isn't the same as orbiting it.
>>113542428
I'm suprised that you're the only one so far to bring up GiTS. The movie in particular was pretty hard as far as sci-fi goes.
I wish there was a Ringworld anime. that book really did Hard Sci Fi well.
Is it actually possible to take the planet jupiter and turn it into a giant black hole bomb?
>>113544108
Or you just create aerostat colonies like Bespin from star wars.
Our oxygen/nitrogen mix atmosphere is a lifting gas on venus, and hydrogen/helium are better lifting gases on venus than they are on earth.
Remember: Bouyancy functions in relation to air pressure.
The surface of venus is crazy, but you don't need to live down there. Probably we'd end up mining the shit out of it, floating the ore to the upper atmospher with balloons, and then possibly skyhooking it into space.
>>113544126
>Impossible.
As long as it not violates the laws of physics it's not impossible
Inefficient? Uneconomical? Beyond current engineering capability of humankind? Maybe.
Impossible? No.
You could "easily" collect kuiper belt objects, i.e. lumps of frozen gas, lob them towards mars and smash them onto the poles. That gives you impact heat melting some of the ice, carbon dioxide to get the greenhouse effect going etc.
Takes a while to pull it off and is quite messy, but it should be feasible, assuming you have some decent fusion reactors to operate vehicles on the outer rim of the solar system.
>>113543801
>being too dense to realize every religious reference or implication of a god is just allegorical
Stay pleb.
>>113544091
Actually, dragons are completely plausible. Ideas of fire-breathing can be accounted to human error in describing their abilities and the existence of dinosaurs lends credence to large-scale reptiles.
Dragons are objectively harder Scifi than FTL. Flying animals really exist, large reptiles really exist, and despite that no form of physical FTL exists. Just put two and two together.
>>113544194
We've sent probes to Venus. The conditions there are so harsh that the little machine only has enough time to snap some photos and send them back before being obliterated.
>>113544248
It would be a very small black hole. Its mass would be the same as Jupiter.
>>113544248
>black hole
>bomb
no
a black hole has the exact same gravitational pull as the mass it was formed from
turn jupiter into a black hole and boy howdy it's exactly like fucking jupiter
>>113544156
Warum sollte er/sie sauer sein?
Danke fürs Bild.
No, because Hard Science Fiction is never good.
It's just bullshit. But it lacks the awesome imagination to be good bullshit. And it lacks the real science to be factual.
Hard SF is for complete faggots. Always has been. It's a genre for the fucking autists to be inept over.
>>113543712
The term libertarian was coined by french anarchist communists. The stupid ancaps have as much right to the term as the retarded libertarians that stole the term from actual anarchists.
>>113544159
There will never be an SG-1 anime ;_;
Time of Eve was nice.
>>113544273
>>113544104
>not living in the sky
>>113544248
Nope
>>113544273
1. It was made by Russians.
2. It was mostly the pressure.
>>113544260
You need to do something about the magnetic field first.
THE HARDEST OF HARDEST sci fi (or no anime after 2005)
>cyberpunk super wizard class hacker tier
Ghost in the shell (movies,sac etc)
Metropolis
Texhnolyze
S E Lain
Appleseed
Cyber City Oedo 808
Akira
>Honorable mention from the moe era
Psycho-Pass (although the basic permise is a rip of off the Minnority Report)
Ergo Proxy
Real Drive
> SUPER REALISTIC HARD ROBOT SCIENCE PEWPEW LAZERS
Gasaragi
N G Evangelion
Armored Trooper Votoms
Patlabor
Yukikaze
Rujin Z (Geriatric Mecha bed!)
Gun Parade March
Gunbuster
Diebuster
>We are in space now captain
Martian succesor Nadesico
Planetes
Knights of Cidonia (before it turned into a harem anime in space)
Cowboy bebop
Terra e
Yamato
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
S P Harloc
Macross Plus
Sol Bianca
Infinite Rivius
Moonlight Mile
Just on top of my head
>>113544273
Average lifespan was 2 hours. The temperature is too brutal for anything we've built to survive, and even projected estimates using modern tech only give about a 50-day lifespan and that's being liberal. Venus is problem built on problem built on catch-22 with a side of more problems and a daily special on catch-22s.
>>113544309
except jupiters frictional forces causes a termination in acceleration, wheras a black hole has only the negligble friction of a vacuum up to the event horizon. after the event horizon you would no longer able to get off the hole since escape velocity at the point is C, so beyond is beyond C, which is impossible. it's interesting because what happened past that point as it approaches the center? does matter simply become gauge bosons?
>>113544356
>Ba'al-sama instantly becomes fujo bait
Some dreams are better left unfulfilled, Anon.
