You'd want narrow wheels with small contact patches (that's what you want for wet conditions). Those'll cut through the muck to the solid ground underneath. If...
... beach ... I think that James Sterrett did some thinking on this earlier and came to the conclusion that zeppelins were a good choice... I know that on...
Okay, thin motive assemblies it is, to deal with the fungus covering the ground. I'm still enamored with the idea of NR using hovercraft, as the Soviets made ...
... Hmm. An Online Asia Times article puts total global exports in 2000 equal to $6200 billion dollars; the US consisted of a full eigth of that total. So the...
... <douglascole@c...> wrote: <much snippage> ... Doug, welcome aboard. Your order of magnitude figure isn't far off -- if you assume modern population...
Someone asked me what Ten Worlds planetary settlements might be like. After cogitating on this, the short answer was "Not sure. It certainly depends on the...
I've always thought of Concord as following a form of the Australian pattern... with about 25% of the population in a few metropolitan areas, notably New...
... I don't think so. The propulsive force from these types of things comes from pressure differentials above and below the blades. That's why they're...
I haven't been involved in TW for a while, so I realize I'm weighing in late here, but... Although Olympia has a larger economy than Medina, Medina might...
... Are those numbers in days? (I'm assuming) I haven't worked out the numbers, I was judging based on the current tube map, which shows Medina as 4 weeks...
Actually, I just looked at the tube map again, and if I'm reading this right, assuming 0 successes on Astrogation and a standard cruise orbit, AD Leonis is 6...
... 2004.xls) is a ... attempt at a ... Interesting. The numbers for Concord are not what I had but playing with the relationship numbers brings them more into...
Simplistically, the underlying assumption of a gravity trade model is that all else being equal you trade more with the people closer than further. It's not...
Kirk Spencer
kspencer@...
Jan 2, 2004 4:42 pm
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That doesn't make sense looking at the numbers for Concord. All else being equal under this model I trade 3x as much with NR as NB and they are in the same...
"All Else Being Equal". Other factors that can influence -- indeed, apply -- include (but aren't limited to): Size of market. Quantity of goods we can sell,...
Kirk Spencer
kspencer@...
Jan 2, 2004 4:55 pm
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Hmm. If I were building a trade model.. First I'd start with some basic model for the internal economy of each planet, to determine what was needed by each...
1) Hyperspace transit now takes "0 time". 2) Entering hyperspace requires being at the point relative to the surface of the departure star closest to your...
... indeed, apply -- ... With those other factors having such an influence, they appear to overwhelm the distance factor to such a degree as to make it ...
Ned, NB is "further" than NR. The critical spot is the bottleneck of the point of exchange. NR has extensive orbital facilities and spaceships, and a ...
Kirk Spencer
kspencer@...
Jan 2, 2004 5:49 pm
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I just ran across a nice summary of some of the methods - to include the gravity model. It's specifically applied to retail trade, but still gives the root...
Kirk Spencer
kspencer@...
Jan 2, 2004 5:58 pm
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Well, that would be another factor. However, maybe I'm dense but it comes as a complete surprise to me. I wouldn't be harping on this but for the fact that the...
hmmm. I pulled most of it from the civics documents of both colonies - the space presence, and the notation that XC has such control of NB (although I ...
Kirk Spencer
kspencer@...
Jan 2, 2004 6:12 pm
8853
... so it's ... No... I'm not taking the blame for this one. Lots of people have had plenty of time to point out this little glitch starting from the first...
Wasn't blaming. Am saying raw facts were available. Am noting _EVERYONE_ (including Ken) missed at least something in raw facts last time we did the GG, and...
Kirk Spencer
kspencer@...
Jan 2, 2004 6:32 pm
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... each ... this ... tend to ... cost ... OK. You have the factbook entries to work from; assume the GDPs are correct, and the trade values are random...
... <kspencer@w...> wrote: And the Iron Hand doth Write: NB and NR have only slightly different costs to orbit -- figure, in my most recent posts, that NR is...
... Politics. That's usually the easiest answer to anything that anomalous. It could be anything from a government tariff which makes it financially much...
... Except that politics isn't factored into the spreadsheet which produced the numbers... and, in "reality," the politics of the situtation supports Concord...
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