Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (25 Jun 2015 02:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Grimmund (25 Jun 2015 03:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (25 Jun 2015 05:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (25 Jun 2015 14:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 04:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 07:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Nokes (26 Jun 2015 18:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 21:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (26 Jun 2015 05:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 09:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (29 Jun 2015 03:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability shadow@xxxxxx (29 Jun 2015 10:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (30 Jun 2015 05:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability shadow@xxxxxx (30 Jun 2015 22:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Joseph Paul (01 Jul 2015 02:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Kurt Feltenberger (01 Jul 2015 02:38 UTC)
USSR is gone but has doctrine changed wrt their successor/s? Phil Pugliese (29 Jun 2015 14:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (01 Jul 2015 04:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Andrew Long (26 Jun 2015 15:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 20:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability shadow@xxxxxx (26 Jun 2015 16:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Greg Chalik (26 Jun 2015 20:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Ethan McKinney (26 Jun 2015 20:03 UTC)

Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) affordability Grimmund 25 Jun 2015 03:50 UTC

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wasn't the one to identify the affordability issue.

Maybe not in that discussion 17 years ago.  You were today.  :)

> I hadn't looked in T5 (original edition) yet, but based on the real world,
> how many countries can afford to install a 100% air and sea sensor
> surveillance?

I'm not sure that's relevant.  Dirtfoot terrain has to deal with
limited line of sight, curve of the dirtball, and MUCH more traffic
than space.

If you have cheap computers and cheap optics (and we can pretty much
manage that now) and some real estate in vacuum, you could potentially
track several thousand ship drive signatures simultaneously without
too much trouble.

Yes, they may occasionally be occluded, but if you know their vector
when occluded, you have a good idea where to look for them later.  Is
it possible to evade the system?  Depending on the system, almost
certainly.

But consider Sol:  if you spend all your time hiding in the asteroid
belt, you're never going to control the planets.

It does not seem like a huge challenge in terms of computing power or
sensor technology.  Speed of light lag means you'll probably never be
up to date, but if a squadron of warships appears, you should be able
to ID and track them when their EM wave front crosses your sensor
pickets.

Dan

--

"Any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from a genuine
kook." -Alan Morgan