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Also, starship duels in multiplayer (which consists only of starship duels) is so much joy!!

For comparrison, that means a starship the size of a Saturn V would be able to deliver a 3 milligram payload.

And of course in fiction there's a ton of examples, such as Starship Troopers (the novel) from 1959.

And some do it to get rich -- they want to buy a planet or a starship or something.

Heinlein had a model to ensure only concerned/educated citizens, and he presented it in Starship Troopers.

Can you imagine the perils of trying to keep a 300m-long starship in orbit, without hitting all the bits of rubbish?

For the curious, this sounds like the background hum of a starship, or perhaps a server room with the volume turned down.

The most feasible interstellar communication is extermination, as you are just sending a starship and not decelerating it on the other side.

There's been some nifty work done on the practicality of electrodynamic tethers and using them to turn a starship against the galactic magnetic field.

Heinlein (of Starship Troopers fame) but that quickly grinded to a halt.

Only if Heinlein hadn't written starship troopers couple of decades before.

Are you sure you're not thinking of Starship Troopers?

The statement that it's "like a Starship Enterprise" in that screenshot hit on exactly how the system-font-ization looks to me.

It's apparently from "In A Mirror, Darkly", where the Terrans from the mirror universe acquired the Constitution-class Federation starship USS Defiant.

Starship) would be pricey, but everything else except labor feels "free." Definitely describes how that society seems to operate, and I could imagine it working if you had replicators, matter antimatter power generation, and other kinds of mega-technology.

In that book, the interstellar starship Magellan can reach a large fraction of lightspeed, thanks to its "quantum drive," but, at those speeds, interstellar gas and dust becomes a real problem that could damage the ship.

Starship troopers - 1959: … I was not making fun of you personally; I was heaping scorn on an inexcusably silly idea — a practice I shall always follow.