Trope-a-Day: Force-Field Door

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@charcamolson <charcamolson@gmail.com> on 2017-01-08 00:06:53 wrote

On the spacesuit side, I just posit spacesuits that are nearly as comfortable as regular clothing (if more inconvenient to get into). With nanotechnology, they could be MORE comfortable, except for the whole catheter thing… no getting around that, I suppose.

@Alistair Young <athanasius.skytower@arkane-systems.net> on 2017-01-08 01:17:39 wrote

With sufficient microbots, all problems are fungible! ( Micromechaphobia )

@Ru <shearwater@gmail.com> on 2017-01-09 07:28:16 wrote

Too lazy to crawl through your archives, but don’t your planet-based launch systems use big electromagnetic catapults? A plasma window on the end of one of those could be described as a forcefield door with a vacuum on one side.

I wonder though. A kinetic barrier being used to hold in an atmosphere might be quite an impediment to movement of anything else through it, no? At least in one direction. I don’t recall you going in to very much detail about kinect barriers in the past, so its hard to say…