... Bubbles were made to be burst :D ... I threw in the speed limit explaination since not everyone understands it and too many people still believe we can not...
Actually, it turns out there is an absolute "at rest" time. It turns out that when astronomers say that the Universe is X years old they are referring to this ...
If it's true that it's very expensive to boost materials and foodstuffs from earth (or any gravity well/planet), then I propose that it would be far cheaper to...
You still have to bring in dirt. Kind of odd though, Traveller pre-supposes cheap gravity control so your base supposition is not canon. Roger ... [Non-text...
Actually, no... Current hydroponic research that is easily 15 yrs on and giving quite good results have worked with misted mineral laden fogs and gel coatings...
... good results have worked with misted mineral laden fogs and gel coatings using no dirt at all. The results are so good that any "dirt" farm in orbit will...
Of course, anything is possible (including canon Jump Drive) if you project far enough *beyond our current understanding*, that's why we like SF. :) Martin. ...
... foodstuffs from ... would ... a Gee. ... forests for ... I think you have hit on a gap in the traveller universe. To make the system work, it requires a...
It all depends on on transport costs and opportunity costs. Planetary real estate on an agricultural world is cheap compared to a space real estate. If...
... Actually, I was simply considering station-based agro-needs since stations supplying a world have much larger implications. For example, we can take...
... I agree. A station is more likely to serve ships in return for trade. As a stationmaster I am gonna have docks, mantenance facilities and fuel so when you...
Yes, As I understand the Traveller game, travel dirtside is facilitated by relatively non-polluting grav power (whatever that is) built into the M-drives, and...
Soooo.... everything is high tech in Traveller? What about low TL worlds? There are HEAPS of TL8 worlds that might either be small, bad atmosphere, with a...
Since the below quoted me... My point was not that every world could maintain the tech to be self-sufficient.. My point was that worlds would supply agro-goods...
<snip> I appreciate everyone that contributed to this discussion. Since my math error, I feel the agro-station would use 'layers' - stacking 'beds' of plants...
Thanks for the kind words, David... -joel ... From: Classic-Traveller@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Classic-Traveller@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of David Johnson ...
At GenCon British Isles Traveller Support (BITS) released their latest 101 book, 101 Starcrews. Written by Andy Lilly, who as far I can tell has written the...
Anyone out there got a Degree in Heaven and Earth, Stuart Ferris's star mapping program? I've got the basics in my head, but after I've set it going for...
You're not alone Martin. I gave up on H&E after I had the same problems
that you are having. All I want is a program that is consistent with Scouts,
and one...
Personally I love H+E for what I do with it... When I am using it, the worlds I am using are already largely written as far as the stellar and "hardware" data...
... Options -> Edit -> Sector_Map pops up an edit screen for you. Mouse over the tool buttons to see what each does. You're looking for Edit_System here which...
Hi guys, thanks for your responses – your experiences seem to be very close to mine - unfortunately - and yes, if I had time I'd put Scouts and Pocket...
icosahedron152 wrote: "David, I seem to recall going down some of this route before with H&E, but when I try to edit the World Details, I get a message saying ...
... Thanks Tom, I've downloaded it but not installed it yet. What extra features does it have? I've not used a beta before, does this cause any difficulties? ...
