r/HFY TFOS# 667 - Human Power Systems & Desperate Measures (r/HFY Sci-Fi Reddit Stories)

[@AgroSquerril]

Going to be streaming the Booster Opening of 100 boosters for Warhanner AOS TCG. Hope to see you all there, will be a long stream.

[@citizen_grub4171]

Woo Warhanner!

[@Firemind_EX]

Terrans from the second story: "Aussies, the frick did you release this time from your hell portal?!"

[@aj_the_infamous1013]

Ausdies "ain't us mate. Twas them damn probers"

[@Deconstruction_Administrator]

Aussie: Give me a minute, I'll check the list. -2 minutes later- We let out the Nightmare Snakes, Venomammals, Hell Lizards and several amalgamations of land, sea and air creatures, but it looks like we put down anything that had more than four legs, except for that one millipede-thing, so those spiders aren't ours.

[@kerilithia]

I don't think these things can be misconstrued for our huntsman spiders. Though I supose it does depend on how big they made them

[@grogvaughan5649]

Oi,, was them Kiwi kids.

[@Aolsucs]

Customer Service Pro tip, if someone is escalated, or really emotional, ask them questions with imperacal answers "What date" "what color" "this location, correct?" It makes most people calm down alot.

[@michaelbalcom5233]

I can definitely see a masses group of humans moving to the astroid belt once the spiders land

[@marrqi7wini54]

Beltalowda?

[@additiveartificer9365]

And maybe drop it in Earth

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

@@additiveartificer9365 yes,...but also strapping engines on about half of all other asteroids to send them to ...every..single.. planetoid in control of either the faction at war , or ther associates... its the only way to be sure...

[@condorboss3339]

"No, it's not a Thermonuclear bomb! It's only 50 megatons!" 🤣

[@Crazylom]

Fun fact, Thermonuclear bomb Tsar Bomba actually was estimated to be 95 Megatons at it's full potential, but in last moment someone removed one of it's fusion cores and weakened it.

[@condorboss3339]

@@Crazylom The Russians did that because they realized the drop plane would not survive if they detonated the bomb at full power.

[@demondeity9816]

@@condorboss3339 I think the drop plane was hit pretty bad with the blast regardless and was in free fall before the pilots got it stable again.

[@calvingreene90]

A bomb is an destructive device. A 50 megaton fusion core is not a bomb.

[@patraic5241]

It makes one wonder what he Would consider a bomb.

[@lagaul5124]

Why has no one commented on how genius that first story actually was? You literally get a fission reaction and a fusion reaction out of the same system. And its simple. BOOM!....

[@GabrielHellborne]

I'm wondering if that's feasible now.....

[@lagaul5124]

@@GabrielHellborne It seams like it could be possible. The size of facility would probably be insanely large though. I cant even imagine the cost to make something like this. Whether or not it would be more efficient than plain fusion, I do not know.

[@calvingreene90]

The problem is that the fission/fusion cores cost a lot more than the electricity we can currently generate from the energy released in a confined detonation. It might be different with a laser triggered core if the lasers are external.

[@IONATVS]

Fission-Pumped Pulsed Fusion was first proposed in the 60s, and pretty much universally declared “feasible, but we don’t want to do it unless we absolutely have to.” Mostly in the context of spacecraft propulsion though, not power generation, because for propulsion you can literally just throw existing H-Bombs out the back of your ship and only need like a 1m thick concrete plate to protect the crew from the blast. So a lot less R&D involved than the plant described in this story-and when the R&D involves doing nuclear tests that have already been banned by several treaties, that’s a hard sell. It is literally the only system we know of where we could build a ship using it today and make an interstellar journey tomorrow...though to do so that quickly we’d need to LAUNCH the thing into space using the same drive, which wouldn’t exactly be pretty for whatever soon-to-be-desert biome we chose as the launchpad.

[@calvingreene90]

@@IONATVS The thing is that the nuclear explosions driving the ship are by definition not tests. Concrete is a suboptimal material for the thrust plate. It is too brittle. Steel with water cooling works much better it also provides onboard power. The pulse nuclear engine is also lousy for interstellar travel exhaust velocity is too low. You are better off with ion engines. What Orion is actually good for is getting very heavy loads off planets. You also want to launch from mid ocean.

[@Roosauec]

That's one way to get humans to not worry about the death of their home planet. Get it infested with giant man eating spiders.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

Sounds like the aliens need to learn to “joy” of the Terran parasite wasp, bloat fly, honey badger and I hesitate to say it . . . Canadian goose. Preferably all genetically altered to live and eat the xeno who thought bio weapons were a cute idea. Let’s see how good of a idea they thought that was after mr.honkers is chasing down their fly and wasp infested off spring for the first time.

[@archer4728]

I enjoy the changes, especially the subtle voice pitching change for separate characters

[@AgroSquerril]

Glad you like

[@gmradio2436]

When the Terrans find out who covered Earth in super spiders, there will be blood.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

I say send them Canadian geese and techno orangoutangs in return. Oh and something I’ve only read about called “clown faced butt hornets” found in neo-Australia.

[@gmradio2436]

The geese are fine, but nothing from any Australia.

[@eliandervalderen5849]

Yeah that second one woo boy gives a new meaning to arachnophobia

[@AgroSquerril]

that and the intro to an interesting creature feature.

[@eliandervalderen5849]

@@AgroSquerril they better hope that the human survivors don't find out what they did because if they do then the humans will make their species regret everything on the way to Extinction

[@robertschumacher2707]

@@eliandervalderen5849 Likely by genetically engineering something even worse. Real murder hornets maybe...

[@Zakvadr1995]

Alien race: Genemods spiders All of humanity: Dick move my dude.

[@ashleycroydon9743]

humans: for spiders no kill like overkill. hahahaha

[@AgroSquerril]

true enough

[@jarrettatkins3062]

They must be cleansed with holy hellfire

[@Kronos9031]

Like the new design with the read along. For our master and the ALGORITHM!

[@AgroSquerril]

glad you like , for the algorithm

[@wildwikedwanderer1208]

When humans say “kill it with nuclear fire” WE.FUCKING.MEAN. IT.

[@Kualinar]

Story 2. Terran's next move : Find the source of those spiders and do the same thing they did there... Only on a much grander scale, vaporizing about 1Km deep of the crust over the totality of the surface.

[@kain7759]

Not only the source, also all of the planets of every coalition that only heared of the culprits existence "its the only way to be sure".

[@unstableproduct]

Story two is the super-scaled version of "A spider got into my house and now I can't find it. I burned my house to the ground."

[@ATSucks1]

Salt water and nuclear power plants do not mix. If ya use salt water to cool mox rods youre gonna get a thermal forced browns gas reaction. Then BOOM.

[@KageRyuu6]

You do know they were literally just setting off hydrogen bombs right?

[@henrypaleveda7760]

and the salt water was a secondary pool, the primary was presumably farther below. The fact that they were distinguished as two separate pools indicates that there had to be a barrier or partition between them.

[@spacetechempire510]

@@henrypaleveda7760 or a vast density deference

[@henrypaleveda7760]

@@spacetechempire510 that as well.

[@patraic5241]

​@@henrypaleveda7760The salt water pool was just a shield. Separate from the reactor pool.

[@hugo231929]

Love the change, don't push yourself too hard kay?

[@AgroSquerril]

i wont , a slow build up to november levels over the next month is the plan

[@MiningwithPudding]

I remember that first story! It's one of my favorite!

[@seanpeacock4290]

I'm more surprised that some humans didn't start keeping them as pets.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

The Aussies were most likely in space on a new death world that hasn’t even been classified yet.

[@WE_DONT_LIE]

@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus no they move Australia to the new world

[@Bendan]

that second story is literally just Earth Defense Force in a nutshell

[@kencarlson2855]

I really like these changes it makes it very easy to keep up with

[@AgroSquerril]

Glad it helps

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Another great Sermon from my favorite Prophet

[@AgroSquerril]

Glad you enjoyed

[@suburbanbanshee]

If you returned the earth to a wild state without agriculture, most wild species that live in farmland would die out. A lot of songbirds,.for example.

[@karasuchrono]

Omg. Loved the first story, lol'd in horror at the second.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

getting visions of starship troopers from the end of the second story

[@bluefalconssuck5881]

No matter how peaceful, kind or caring an alein species is... If it is Spider-esque, their will be war.

[@ckl9390]

What the Human Infrastructure Minister isn't telling him is that the concept was originally developed as a weapon. Essentially as an afterburner on a conventional nuke to increase yield. I wonder if pulsed fusion would work as a power source in reality? The captive underground lake is the key to making it work as a sustainable power source. The thermal mass would moderate the output so it could be captured and converted at a useful rate. I wonder how often they have to fire a pulse?

[@UNSCrearadmiral]

2nd story brings a whole new meaning to the I saw a spider meme

[@AgroSquerril]

lol

[@Navy89SEALs]

"It's the only way to be sure..."

[@derekdrake8706]

I'm glad humans in the first story were finally able to realize that solar power doesn't work at scale, it gives me hope that one day environmentalists will pull their heads out of their asses.

[@geoshark12]

One of the spiders was later found to be an Australian pet

[@midgefidget5796]

A a card-carrying lifetime Arachnophobe, that second story shook me to my core. Scariest HFY story yet.

[@hauntedmedic373]

Those mother f*cking aliens did not just make Mutant spiders!

[@justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456]

ok as a power system addict this seems very fucking appealing

[@CaptainShield]

Nanites love fusion reactors.

[@AgroSquerril]

that they do

[@ryankaiser2702]

I don’t know why they didn’t try to invent Cazadores to counteract the bio mutant spiders

[@chrisdufresne9359]

That would have just led to something worse.

[@tabithachastain6999]

I love the 1st story. That science being used for peace

[@Ash-yh5yn]

Holly crap, I just did some research and... well... pulsed nuclear fusion is an actual thing... a group called First Light Fusion is currently developing a pulsed fusion reactor and were supposed to demonstrate the first reactor in 2019. I don't know if they actually did demonstrate it, but the energy extracted is still rather low. It appears like the energy it takes to make the pellet, contain the reaction, inefficiencies, and trigger the reaction consumes around 2/3 of the power the fusion process creates. But, the prototype they built before their reactor could, in the span of a minute, produce enough power to run a house for a year... For perspective, a normal house in America (where I live) consumes power at a rate of just over 1.2kW (28.9kWh). 1.2kW equates to 1,200 Joules per second. This per year would be a total of 15,189,840,000 joules (15.18984GJ). Now, let's equate this to TNT blast yield. TNT contains the energy of 4.6MJ/kg, so the reactor produces the energy of over 3.302 tons of TNT every minute (0.055 tons per second). Put another way, their prototype could power around 525,600 homes. Ok, I'm starting to think that their "prototype" is their actual reactor.

[@AgroSquerril]

nice

[@chrisdufresne9359]

The Rough Draft IS the Final Draft. Just taken to extreme levels.

[@Ash-yh5yn]

@@chrisdufresne9359 I mean... it's a youtube comment. Do you really expect me to go through it with a fine tooth comb?

[@chrisdufresne9359]

@@Ash-yh5yn I was referring to the "prototype" reactor....

[@Ash-yh5yn]

@@chrisdufresne9359 ooooohhh, I thought that I messed up my math and you were being sarcastic. Sorry about that, man :)

[@clementchanu8019]

Good to know your back, keep going

[@AgroSquerril]

Kicking A and taking baby steaps!

[@dragonriderabens9761]

“I didn’t ask how big the room is. I said I CAST FIREBALL!! Empowered…at 9th level”

[@hawk3079]

I mean in the second story it is the only way to be sure

[@calvingreene90]

The Empire is going down.

[@AgroSquerril]

1...2....3.... you are out!

[@commu-bot60]

Humans would just pice out and leave

[@calvingreene90]

It is a fusion plant we could build today.

[@greyclydesdale]

Happy New Year!

[@AgroSquerril]

And to you

[@chadman3881]

This new style is great. great video.!

[@AgroSquerril]

Glad you liked

[@hollyferay8131]

The power story is such geeky fun.

[@AgroSquerril]

:)

[@victortahlor4038]

Thank you for the reading

[@asandrewsilvaw]

Liked the intro

[@AgroSquerril]

Thank you

[@Maeshalanadae]

Anyone who says that all that can be known is known, should be sent on their way.

[@KwaterbugBUTCHER]

For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice! For the Squirrel 🐿

[@mutehowl]

Ohh hell no your guna unleash bio terror weapons on humanity you best be expecting the same response but made by human based on your fears.

[@IRMentat]

We ARE their fears. Why else resort to arachnophobia as a response?

[@chrisdufresne9359]

We could just drop some wasps on them in retribution. Or maybe some Murder Hornets.

[@notafrisbee5907]

Liked the changes btw.

[@AgroSquerril]

thank you , glad you like

[@Jason-sm4oc]

For BobtheDragon Also: for the algorithm

[@whowhat4573]

Algorithm be pleased.

[@AgroSquerril]

for the algorithm

[@patricksean9031]

Happy new year

[@AgroSquerril]

And to you

[@chipjack2119]

I really like the new look!

[@AgroSquerril]

Glad you enjoyed

[@drawbyyourselve]

Isnt it wonderful that we are starting to fuse efficiently in our lifetime?

[@thenthson]

For the algorithm!

[@AgroSquerril]

For the alforithm

[@paulsim7589]

Its only fair you return the favour and give them some of there weapons back 😮 but bigger

[@jeroylenkins1745]

I don't know if I like it yet.

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

its the only way to be sure... and nooooooow....for what they consider the only way to be sure the ....creators.. and the knowledge how to remake those monsters... are lost forever hmm... aliens.. do you know what the concept of totalwar is ?

[@arakheno4051]

For the Algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

First for the algorithm

[@tyreecebaker6600]

👍

[@AgroSquerril]

👍

[@ProprietorDoomOf]

Oh a read along nice.

[@AgroSquerril]

Glad you like

[@Killa_Joule2005]

The second story sounds like my aunt.

[@mhail7673]

4tA Happy New Year!

[@AgroSquerril]

4TA

[@douglasjackson295]

For the seo

[@AgroSquerril]

indeed for the SEO

[@Shatterwings060]

I must be one of the few people that doesn't like the new look completely. I prefer if the voice bar be removed or moved some where else. However I may just be complaining up a nothing burger.

[@AgroSquerril]

Where would you move it to?

[@Shatterwings060]

@@AgroSquerril under the scrolling text or on the opposite side side

[@lukkaredwolf3534]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

for the algorithm

[@icarus745]

Less than 50 mt? Oh my!

[@Scream_Lord]

Terran Responce to the Hyper Death Spiders be like: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2HIl32AiMmDpbs

[@allenmorgan1007]

FtA, FtA(s), FtDV!

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm

[@undrachvrsage]

FTA

[@AgroSquerril]

For the Algorithm

[@FedralBI]

F.T.A.

[@AgroSquerril]

F.T.A.

[@merlinwizard1000]

153rd, 3 September 2023