Humanoid vs Human?

[Sion]

That's a well written document, except for one tiny expression under "Key technologies":
"Fusion reactors and rockets - Clean atomic energy, usable to create power or drive a craft into orbit."

There is nothing clean about atomic energy, sure it doesn't produce carbon dioxide in the power plant (but to dig it up and transporting it both before and after use still does), but it produces deadly and highly radioactive waste that takes several 100 000 years to store until it reaches the same level of radioactivity as the natural background radiation and can be considered "safe".

[Tynan]

Sion, this is hypothetical fusion technology in a sci-fi universe, not a fission reactor from the 60's.

[totalmonkey]

Sion, this is hypothetical fusion technology in a sci-fi universe, not a fission reactor from the 60's.

Technically, even real-life fusion power is generally considered "clean" compared to fission power. So... the document is basically still correct.

[Thunder Rahja]

Sion, this is hypothetical fusion technology in a sci-fi universe, not a fission reactor from the 60's.

I'm going to recreate Chernobyl in a futuristic setting in Alpha 3 now.

[Sion]

Sion, this is hypothetical fusion technology in a sci-fi universe, not a fission reactor from the 60's.

Well ok, they might have found a solution that makes the nuclear fuel burn out faster witch would reduce the half-life of the fuel in the future.

I'm going to recreate Chernobyl in a futuristic setting in Alpha 3 now.

Will there be radioactive poisoning in Rimworld?

And Thunder1, enjoy your wasteland.
You can try to build Megaton from Fallout 3

[Rokiyo]

Sion, this is hypothetical fusion technology in a sci-fi universe, not a fission reactor from the 60's.

Well ok, they might have found a solution that makes the nuclear fuel burn out faster witch would reduce the half-life of the fuel in the future.

My understanding is that idea behind nuclear fusion (creating energy by combining atoms, like our sun does), instead of nuclear fission (creating energy by splitting atoms, like a modern day nuclear power plant does), is that the fuels used generally come from stable elements like helium and hydrogen. No half-lifes to worry about.

I hear that the act of fusing atoms together is still likely to irradiate the actual structure of the reaction chamber (so we won't be completely free of the radioactive waste issue), but I believe the actual fuels and by-products won't be nearly as dangerous as the ones needed for nuclear fission.

[Sion]

It seems to me that we have drifted away from the original topic that this thread was intended to be about in the beginning.
I suggest that we should make a new topic about this, and move this fission/fusion discussion over there.
I never intended to start a debate of this proportions about this topic.

[Ender]

Sion, this is hypothetical fusion technology in a sci-fi universe, not a fission reactor from the 60's.

Well ok, they might have found a solution that makes the nuclear fuel burn out faster witch would reduce the half-life of the fuel in the future.

My understanding is that idea behind nuclear fusion (creating energy by combining atoms, like our sun does), instead of nuclear fission (creating energy by splitting atoms, like a modern day nuclear power plant does), is that the fuels used generally come from stable elements like helium and hydrogen. No half-lifes to worry about.

I hear that the act of fusing atoms together is still likely to irradiate the actual structure of the reaction chamber (so we won't be completely free of the radioactive waste issue), but I believe the actual fuels and by-products won't be nearly as dangerous as the ones needed for nuclear fission.

OR. you could just use thorium and have more than half of this issue go away, but ya back to the actual topic.

I think we are seeing the first possibilities of Humanoid characters in Rimworld with the implementations of different factions, as to me that will seem to, be the start of a different "faction" that happens to not be specifically "Human".

[Tynan]

Ender: Yes, faction will have races in the future. Currently they're all still human but I'd love to have some with different species mixes.

[Ender]

Ender: Yes, faction will have races in the future. Currently they're all still human but I'd love to have some with different species mixes.

That's great! 

[Splinterbee]

Ender: Yes, faction will have races in the future. Currently they're all still human but I'd love to have some with different species mixes.

cyborg lizard cats?

[Ender]

Ender: Yes, faction will have races in the future. Currently they're all still human but I'd love to have some with different species mixes.

cyborg lizard cats?

*facepalm*