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Labor camp

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List of choices (would you like to be killed by woodchipper, firing squad, gascambers...)

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Choose how to die (with restrictions, or course, no "I want to be nuked in the dining hall")

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Generic Lethal injection

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Electroshock

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Life in prison

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Total Members Voted: 20

[GreatWyrmGold]

That sounds dangerous...

[Vorthon]

How about we just go with something less likely to reduce us to a pile of ash? Besides, everyone knows magma is so last season.

[TopHat]

Any MADPLANS expenses due to casualties caused by the use of that suit will be forwarded to your department.

[Sprin]

I wish S.P.R.I.N turned into a full blown fully funded operation on our colonys.
We also have developed lava suits for more... "Flair".

[misko27]

Again, are there any objections[1] to smuggling fake rhino horn and real drugs? These seem to be good sources of urgently needed revenue...

[1] I mean real objections, not some "This is not ethical!", "This is not possible!", "You are completely insane and a danger to the whole mission!" objections. All that stuff is well-known.

I know that for example elephant tusks can be sold legaly in some countries.

How's that an objection? That's business we can get into as well!

Do we know any arms merchants?

No, But I'm sure I could send a line down to some familiy over in the Homeland and see what I can russle up.

I live in Maine.
It's like guns heaven up here!

My homeland is somewhat more, militarised. Anyone up for some NATO guns?

[Helgoland]

Again, are there any objections[1] to smuggling fake rhino horn and real drugs? These seem to be good sources of urgently needed revenue...

[1] I mean real objections, not some "This is not ethical!", "This is not possible!", "You are completely insane and a danger to the whole mission!" objections. All that stuff is well-known.

I know that for example elephant tusks can be sold legaly in some countries.

How's that an objection? That's business we can get into as well!

Do we know any arms merchants?

No, But I'm sure I could send a line down to some familiy over in the Homeland and see what I can russle up.

I live in Maine.
It's like guns heaven up here!

My homeland is somewhat more, militarised. Anyone up for some NATO guns?

Where do you live, again? Were you the Congo guy?

[miauw62]

I think that was me. And i'm not a Congo guy, more like a Country-that-used-to-control-congo-guy.

[GoombaGeek]

What we really need are flying space tables.

[Helgoland]

I think that was me. And i'm not a Congo guy, more like a Country-that-used-to-control-congo-guy.

Aaaah, the Belgium guy. Wasn't there a Congo guy around here somewhere?

And why's Belgium militarised?

[misko27]

I think that was me. And i'm not a Congo guy, more like a Country-that-used-to-control-congo-guy.

Aaaah, the Belgium guy. Wasn't there a Congo guy around here somewhere?

And why's Belgium militarised?

Because of NATO?

[miauw62]

Doesnt really feel like militarized to me.
They are all probably hiding in the mountainous part.

[10ebbor10]

Doesnt really feel like militarized to me.
They are all probably hiding in the mountainous part.

This lead me to look into the fine details of the Belgian army. Apparently we have unmanned aircraft.

Edit: Apparently our king is also Knight of the order of the Elephant.

[TopHat]

The army has aircraft? What does the Air Force have?

Only joking.

150 pages, wow.
And almost 2250 posts.

[Vorthon]

So. Fuel sources/propulsion.

I'm thinking a Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket for getting to Mars. Cuts down a 6 month journey to something like 39 days. IIRC.

[10ebbor10]

So. Fuel sources/propulsion.

I'm thinking a Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket for getting to Mars. Cuts down a 6 month journey to something like 39 days. IIRC.

Problem is that those VASIMIR's are energy hungry, produce lot's of waste heat and have trouble working together. Their magnetic fields tend to conflict, and might even mingle with the Earth's magnetic field, creating additionall Torque.

The length of the Transfer orbit is more or less 221605200 kilometers, unless I gravely miscalculated something. In order to that, we'd need to get a speed of 236757 km/h or 65766 m/s. With a maximum exhaust speed of 300km/s. This seems to be well within the Vasimirs possibilities. However, we need to decelerate to, so that means we can only arcelerate for half the voyage, meaning we need to get a max speed 131,532 km/s. Still within the Vasimirs capabilities.

If we apply Tsiolkovsky's rocket equatation, we find out that for every kg of payload, we need to take 1.5 kg of fuel. Which is not a lot for that breathtaking speed. Unfortunately, the engines are also classified as payload needing to be taken, and with the fact that VASIMIR engines provide low thrust per unit and weight a lot, this might become problematic.