EVE General Discussion

We all know the synonym of luxury is at least cloth made of virgin chinchilla eyelashes with the nanofiber tubes finish and NOT a generic art on it. Shame on you CCP.

Assuming you've overcome the perils of gravity, you still need to go occasionally for number one and number two. And yet, there are no toilets in the future. Spaceships are poop-free zones, aliens have magical nappies that filtrate their urine better than those special suites in Dune.

Where did all toilets go? Don't our heroes need to relax now and then, have a read? Doesn't Picard get a clenching moment now and then? Wasn't Snake Plissken afraid when he EMP-ed the world?

Now, let's consider the actual sewage capacity of a modern spaceship. Take a 1,000-crew ship, with equal half-male half-female population. Using today's world eating and hygiene statistics, we're talking five to six urinal trips and an average one Zen-like moment per crewmember a day, resulting in about two liters of fluid and 400-gr turding. With no special bacteria to bio-degrade the waste, we're amassing 400 kg of browncake and two tons of lemonjuice every single day. This translates into 700 hundred tons of peepee and 150 tons of cacky a year, and this is a conservative estimate. Where do you put all that? Or do you just eject all that into space?

Imagine, bio-warfare between rival ships. As they swoop past another, you get them showered with your waste. And if they don't have any window wipers, they end up with polluted starscape until the next visit in an orbital maintenance shop.

Better yet, since the vacuum is fairly cold, ejected feces turn into solid ice instantly. So with some knowledge of ballistics and good timing, you can use human excrements as kinetic weapons. If you fire them from your ship when moving at great speed, you can create a meteor shower of unprecedented physical and psychological impact. You can even use the gravitational pull of nearby stars and planets to make your dung accelerate, becoming even deadlier. Theoretically, you can have a 1,000-ton kinetic projectile created from inedible parts of human diet, available for launching at 20 km/sec, at your disposal. Farts have never been more dangerous.

And so the space weapons become pissiles and turdpedoes. Oh man, what a moment of poetic brilliance. Now, this is what I call - biological warfare! Yeah! I win!

This is not true. In a vacuum objects do not loose heat quickly because heat loss is the transfer of energy (usually in the form of vibrations) from one partial to another. If there are no other particles to transfer said energy to (ie in a vacuum), then heat can't be lost.

Things don't freeze instantly in space. Sorry to be a killjoy.

But, but... we got a painted-on cybernetic arm! (for a mere 150 €/$).

EVE's 10 year headstart is unbeatable, but no amount of headstart can beat delivering the real deal instead of EVE. And that, without puzzling your customers with stuff like avoiding to guarantee that Valkyrie will be released for PC + OR.

The good news, is that he's a big name of the business. He already was a veteran progammer with a notorious portfolio when CCP were planning to make a board game to fund their space videogame.

The bad news, is that the more you try to accomplish, the largar are the chances of a disastrous blunder.