Can we have a nice comfy sci-fi tech thread, talk about cool sci-fi tech and post neat images.
As a topic to start us off, whats your favorite sci-fi weapon of mass destruction/planet buster?
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>>46218635
There's a Blame! animation? Fuck me.
Exterminatus by causing planets to collide by creating a strong gravitational pull will always remain to be my favourite method of planet destruction
>>46219075
What am I looking at.
>>46219158
Seems like a big-ass laser that is basically floating in mid air. Or a spaceship.
>>46219032
>>46218635
This is not one of the BLAME! Extras animaton shorts I'm familiar with. Source please?
>>46219090
Inertailess Drives: Making space warfare into planetary nutcrackers since Lensman was written.
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>>46219032
Preview of upcoming movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDA1bUkotIk
>>46219243
Shiiiiiiiiit yeah, man!
>>46219158
It's a spaceship. It was used ina CYOA
>>46218635
P. K. Dick's warp rocket is the coolest weapon I've ever heard of. It's from his short story 'The Variable Man'.
Humanity is at a large-scale war against an alien race but both sides are so technologically advanced that neither can really further the conflict; the humans have superior offence but the aliens have superior defence.
Humans have invented FTL drives but they're not working as expected; upon re-entry into normal-space/dropping below lightspeed, it explodes with an enormous, 1-2 planet sized boom. I think the explanation was that if the space the rocket re-enters into is already occupied by some matter, it de-stabilizes the structure of the entire rocket.
So the humans aim one of this at the home planet of the aliens.The titular character fixes the drive and a peaceful, no-limits-to-expansion, HFY ending occurs.
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>>46219243
That's from Knights of Sidonia. They're watching a movie.
>>46219370
I distinctly remember a stickied thread on /a/ about an announcement, but the pv was first in knights of sidonia
>>46219373
Really weird but kinda clever way of advertising. I literally had never heard of nor seen Blame! before this thread just now. I just thought it was some generic, over-the-top sci-fi flick they made up for the characters to "watch".
>>46219347
Huh. That's funny.
That Mexican scientist's hypothetical FTL drive runs into the same problem.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/140635-the-downside-of-warp-drives-annihilating-whole-star-systems-when-you-arrive
>>46219387
Do yourself a favour and go read Blame!, its seriously amazing sci-fi.
>>46218635
Definitely Gray Goo. Especially if you can remotely reprogram it or get it to change behavior once the "eat everything" phase is over. Then you've got a nice clean 6 × 10^24 kg or so of raw materials to work with.
>>46219389
I'd love to hear what Dick would've thought about this, considering he wrote the short story about 60 years ago.
What a guy.
>>46219559
Knowing PKD he would probably say that he predicted warp rockets because Satellite Jesus told him and about it on top of the dangers of trusting potential reptillians.
>>46219761
And yet all his delusions somehow do not discredit his person
False Vacuum bomb.
If transhumanism actually happens and we all become immortal god machines I am so gonna recreate the bible on some backwater planet.
What is your favourite kind of sci fi /tg/?
If anybody has more futurama stuff I'd appreciate it
>>46220293
Hard and very far future. Iain Banks style.
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>>46219373
It was initialy meant as a in-universe joke but they are actualy turning it into a full movie.
As for OP's question, Revelation Space' Hell Class weapons are my favorite. Sentient sun-bursting superweapons built with plans sent back from an alternative shitfest of a future
