Once upon a time trade was in luxuries and rarities. Silk and spices and precious metals and similar. One can make an easier case for these even more so when...
scott palter, final s...
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Dec 1, 2005 4:30 pm
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... The other question is "If there is interstellar trade, what is being traded?" Foodstuffs come to mind, especially ones that were processed to remove or...
... If we thought like that, we'd all be in Africa right now. To grow, to spread, to give our genes a chance to survive. The old eggs in one basket reason. ...
... There's also a question of how common - or uncommon - suitable planets are. Tin cans and domes are probably too costly and vulnerable to really count as...
For anyone else interested in this realistic SF RTS, they've made a couple of updates in the last month. The first and more interesting discusses the inner...
Only if the author so permits... ... -- What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a...
This is semi-off-topic, but probably of interest to enough of you to be worth posting. This evening, on the way into the University library, I noticed a table...
Brian York
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Dec 2, 2005 5:06 am
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In my gaming Universe, I have a Garden World occur 10% (more or less). Out of the 97 systems within 20 ly of Earth, there are about 25 colonies. BUT - some are...
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Pride or philosophy works well if the colonies are relatively cheap, or if the society has a single ruler who wants to leave a legacy. IMO, a likely reason...
... colonies. ... My gut impression - worth what you paid for it - is that a 10 percent figure is REALLY optimistic. Though I can see why it is adopted for ...
Oh, I agree - 10% is high. More like 1%, if that high. However, that's one of the few handwaves I've let in. (Almost) Each of the major powers has a Garden...
G'day, ... Have you been following the articles on potential formation in place? Its interesting to see what people will look into until the "it must be this...
Regarding _Mahan is not Enough: The Proceedings of a Conference on the Works of Sir Julian Corbett and Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond_, Cooper ... 1993, although...
On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:32 AM, "rmrobinson1227" ... But have you considered marginal worlds? Worlds like the Earth was 3 to 2 BYA? While not great places for...
... The problem with terraforming is that it takes multiple centuries at best, and very likely millennia. ... He seemed to be including brighter K (those with...
Through an improbable series of events, I find myself not only going to PhilCon, but signed up to speak on four panels. Fri 8:00 PM in 306—From the Page to...
... Okay, when I rush I forget stuff. The point of the last email wasn't to solicit an audience, but to ask if anyone was going, and whether there was any...
... [snip] ... For game purposes, goosing the frequency of habitables is perfectly justified, so that you can use a manageable map of nearby stars. Purely...
... Yep. It requires yet another special order of handwavium to get thriving terraformed colonies in this millenium. ... lifespans). Exactamundo. Late F...
... One problem with tidal-locked worlds being habitable is the loss of hydrogen. In every case we know of so far, life requires water. Tidal-locked worlds...
G'day, Thought you guys would appreciate seeing where Aussie taste lies (at least those that bother to vote in these kind of exercises). This is a list of the...
... I don't quite follow this one - so long as we're talking "habitable" in the sense of lifebearing, not *human*-habitable. Why would hydrogen be lost from...
I think we should invest in the ultimate deterrent, the String Bomb. It wouldn't matter where our enemies hid because the Dark Energy phase change would get...
I think we can go one better: the Silly String Bomb. All the nastiness of the String Bomb, but stored in something the size of an aersol can and available in ...
... going to ... worlds of ... What ... have ... Christopher ... I think I've also been added to this panel, but it was on my B-list. ... simulations ... ...
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