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@Lalala Repeat to yourself it's brianna wu so you really should just relax.
"The aesthetics of R60 are dripping with science."
LOL, no. Fighter planes with holes in their wings. Spacecraft that have a layout like airplanes, with the floor parallel to the acceleration vector (of this nearly all scifi is guilty BTW). A motorcycle which does propel itself by emitting "positive and negative gravitons" but nonetheless has wheels (unmoving ones though) and makes combustion engine and tyre-screeching sounds.
"In terms of psychology, people respond subliminally to different shapes. Squares and rectangles are safe (evoking livingrooms or cribs); triangles and wedges are scary (stilettos, snake heads, Panzers). Rev60 is not a comedy oferrors about a party in a park;it's a death struggle with millions of lives in the balance. There are few safe shapes."
This is psychology, Frankie-Boy, not physics and engineering. The latter two come in handy when you're building spaceships and vehicles, the former will at best be of secondary importance when designing the controls. You know what would happen when one of your oh-so-scary insect-inspired Fifth Column spaceships attempts reentry?
THIS.
There is a reason all reentry-capable spacecraft are either
robust round capsules or
sleek and aerodynamic. No fucking "feelers" or "pincers" or anything that would be torn off and evaporate upon touching the upper atmosphere at ca. 8 km/s.
That said, this Xiezhi-thing could be meant for orbit-orbit transfer only (which actually makes sense from a celestial mechanics and rocketry viewpoint). But if so, WHY ARE THE FUCKING ENGINES OPEN AT THE FRONT LIKE JET ENGINES??? Yeah yeah yeah, this is about as common in scifi designs as dinosaurs in comics about cavemen, but hey, the X-Wings from Star Wars at least fly into the atmosphere, so having some kind of air-breathing engines as an auxilliary system makes sense. But like I said, the second that Xiezhi touches the atmosphere, its "feelers" and "pincers" turn into ionized gas and the rest of the ship touches down as a molten lump of slag.
Oh, I forgot -- by "dripping with science" you meant: Dripping with psychology. But let me remind you: This is
Freud. This is
C. G. Jung. This is
von Braun. This is
Korolev. Very different people, very different areas of expertise.
As for Holiday's vroom vroom, let's ignore for a second that the unmoving wheels look retarded (for the physicist as well as for the psychologist and everyone else) --
"These are studded with positive and negative graviton emitters". The graviton is (predicted to be) chargeless like the photon, and has zero rest mass. There probably aren't any "positive" and "negative" gravitons, though "negative matter" can be hypothetically postulated. Like the photon, which carries the electromagnetic force but has no charge of its own, the graviton carries the gravitational force but has no "gravity charge" (mass) of its own. This is different with gluons BTW which carry the strong nuclear force but also have a "color charge" (this is what the property of quarks that responds to nuclear force is called) of their own, thus they can influence each other, something which photons (outside of very special nonlinear media) cannot do -- two lasers cross without deflecting each other.
"My sincerest hope is that some of the people who play our game will peek behind the scenes."
Let's hope they don't. Know what R60 is even worse at than at delivering a message of feminism? At delivering a science lesson!
