My elder daughter's birthday was yesterday so my folks were over to celebrate. While present my Dad briefly spoke about being in Nevada in '57 for the Atomic...
G'day, Just saw the following on the nature news site. Its about the size of the original colonisation of America. They say the first wave was numbered at...
... The article actually cites an initial effective population number of ~70, very close to the estimated minimum of 50 that I've mentioned before. The...
... My Dad was one of the troops that were being massed for the invasion of the Island of Japan. So you could say that I thank God that they dropped the bomb,...
... I bet the people of Hiroshima would have paid through their eye teeth to get that sake back. Not that I would have encouraged my dad to gouge them... No,...
Here's my SWAG about a sublight colony ship. Generation after generation of women who are implanted with frozen female embryos from Earth until you get to the...
G'day, ... If you look at the realised effective population size in both targeted and accidental colonisations by humans the effective population size doesn't...
"Bah! Let me tell ya somethin. We was on the Prairie Princess, just a little old boat flagged out of singapore, or California, or some other dinky country....
... hee hee. Pratchett's _Strata_ had a similar idea; planet-builders leaving 'easter-eggs' in the rock levels; Dinosaurs with 'end nuclear testing' placards,...
... Or, for an alternate view, see the movie _A Boy and His Dog_. (Having never read the book I don't know if the "assembly line marriage" scene exists in...
... To digress... Who on B5 uses nukes? __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it...
... My first thought, too. Someone else mentioned _A Boy and His Dog_. Those who have seen it will recall that Don Johnson's character discovered that, if you...
... At a minimum, we saw Earthforce use them, and we also saw Sheridan use some that had been confiscated from the Narn resistance. IIRC the Shadow base on...
... Johnny "Nukeboy" Sheridan uses them as his only tactical trick, with several uses over the series. The Narn have used them, the Centauri owned the ones...
Just re-watching the DVDs of FireFly and noticed when (in the first real episode) the Alliance ship was going to deploy Fighters to escort the Serenity in....
What got me about that ep was the fact that they had left the "crybaby" a few klicks from where they were raiding the wreck. 13 klicks? Does that sound...
Joss Whedon's shows have always been about the characters rather than the technology - the pilot is a great example. Later on, when they encounter the Reaver...
Recall that Wedon came up with Firefly while watching the old John Wayne movie Stagecoach and deciding to do it in space. Fox Production was pushing him for...
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... From: sfconsim-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sfconsim-l@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Cooper Fox Sent: Sunday, 5 June 2005 5:43 AM To:...
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