David Eckard
@swordedge
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Joined: May 28, 2014
Last seen: Dec 11, 2019
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RE: Josh's Vernacular

Colonal Potter on M*A*S*H yelled things like Horse hockey

9 years ago
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RE: Fact check: Earth population

What about non Frickin' aliens?! There should be alien bio life, mostly bacteria level.

9 years ago
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RE: Fact check: Pre-Plague FTL speeds

Warp speed is Star Trek and is logarithmic. 100c is decently fast. Although, even at 100c, travel times are rather long. Pluto, 2 minutes 47 second...

9 years ago
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RE: Episode 13 spoiler thread- "hold on, wait, what?"

I put the Google Translate plug in on my browser. It translates das ist immer das Problem: ich lese auch zu schnell… as that's always the problem: I ...

9 years ago
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RE: Visibility of Ships

This is a topic with a LOT of returns when you google it. Didn't find one that says how big a 2 KM long ship would appear to be from 10 KM or 1 KM. ...

9 years ago
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RE: Episode 15 wish list

I do worry about the capabilities people give the nanites. These are seriously tiny machines. ONE function each. Maybe two. And the body should att...

9 years ago
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RE: Moon Base

Make the secret base for construction etc on a planetoid around a brown dwarf that is not too far from earth. These are half way between a Jupiter an...

9 years ago
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RE: Part 1 special edition

Just to tell you how hard proofing can be. Many years ago, an author told a group of us how he, his wife, and something like five other people were l...

9 years ago
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RE: Episode 15 - Doom on the wing, or not?

You can put a Google Translate tool in your browser. Highlight the text, click the T and you get the translation. That revealed that the post was to...

9 years ago
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RE: Episode 14 SPOILERS and Finale Predictions

As for why no shields on the asteroid, please consider what it would take to get through a couple kilometers of rock. The enemy does not have the tim...

9 years ago
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RE: Episode 15 - Doom on the wing, or not?

The Jung do not have jump drives in Book 14. The purpose of the 20 ly zone is so that the Alliance has plenty of time to find the Jung before they can...

9 years ago
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RE: Episode 14 SPOILERS and Finale Predictions

As for fighting ships, time to design jump specific ones. But that may be in series 2.

9 years ago
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RE: Episode 15 wish list

I've read other books where nanites are a battle weapon. They convert the material of the enemy to make more of them. Solution for the enemy is simp...

9 years ago
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RE: Episode 14 SPOILERS and Finale Predictions

First 28% or so of Book 14 is intense. Do any of them know the term Golden BB. A small (or not so small) shot in the exact right spot to take out t...

9 years ago
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RE: Ticker for Ep 14

So the plan now is book 14 in late August, 15 in October, Fall of the Core as an entire book in December, a novel I wrote before I started the Saga (a...

9 years ago
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RE: Netcast Zero!

You know that if you stand up straight, you will lose that hump and not have to bust it!!! Excellent news on the book.

9 years ago
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RE: Can some one tell me what genre is this?

Troy Rising is in part, Military SF. Don't know a sub Genre for it.

9 years ago
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RE: "The Weak and the Innocent"

I think that BC does not know where the Jung home world is. Most don't

9 years ago
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RE: Amazon's new kindle Author pay

@EagleOne55: On another note: I didn’t even realize Kindles could get viruses. Yeeow! Depends on the Kindle. The Kindle has to be able to run a ...

9 years ago
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RE: Near C Sand

Would atmospheric reentry burn up all of the sand? Would atmospheric reentry burning up the sand have any side effects like holes in the Ozone or supe...

9 years ago
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RE: Near C Sand

The Star Carrier series by Ian Douglas by chance? Good series of books. Very different to the Frontiers Saga but that’s not a bad thing. Listened...

10 years ago
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RE: Jump Technology for Planets?

They did an asteroid. Maybe next a large moon? Then could an entire planet have jump capability? A moon maybe. A planet, that would muck up the we...

10 years ago
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RE: Episode 13 spoiler thread- "hold on, wait, what?"

I've read books where the good guys won every battle. They are not as fun as ones where the good guys lose on occasion.

10 years ago
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RE: Episode 14: Discussion and Speculation

I did come up with an attack based on the defense against jumping 1 light minute. Do that say, three or four times taking fire as the Jung shoot. Th...

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RE: Episode 14: Discussion and Speculation

If I recall correctly, the majority of the Jung commanders and their ships do not know where the Jung home world is. That is part of the security sys...

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RE: Episode 14: Discussion and Speculation

That won’t work because the Jung use monitoring devices in everyday places – like train/subway stations and the like. However, these devices might sen...

10 years ago
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RE: Experiment with the Expansion of the Frontiers Saga Universe

Suddenly, I am thinking about the Star Trek and Star Wars universes. LOTS of writers, one universe. The format works. Larry Niven does not do war s...

10 years ago
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RE: Episode 13 spoiler thread- "hold on, wait, what?"

The alliance recognized your KKV against Karuzara. This is why they cleared out 20 light years. Between that and patrols, they should be able to kee...

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