... Colonizing other regions has never been a successful way of dealing with overpopulation. Ignoring that, there's no plausible way for space colonies to be...
While there are no hard and fast figures, the middle class for China is estimated at about 225 million, while that of India is at about 187 million (these are...
... So they have a population of around 100 million or so? Even if there is just one fab in the known galaxy, how does everybody else trust them? MFT ships...
... One of the "almosts..." that happened in the Ten Worlds backstory was a Federated Nations Admiral stripping the peacekeeping forces off of Refuge to do a...
... Networks of FPGAs (as compared to nanotech supercubes), would be much better at doing many simple things at once, rather than a single difficult task. This...
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:05:59 +0200, Henry Cobb <henry_cobb@...> wrote: [...] ... Future combat carriages will require body armour for the horses that...
... There was an old Isaac Asimov essay which made that point. He was deflating the notion that colonies on Mars or Luna could cure the overpopulation...
... I disagree with your assertion. Instead, I believe the "correct" model of FTL travel is one that allows the Plucky Adventurer to travel anywhere, but at a...
mark.campbell@...
Jul 1, 2007 2:09 pm
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Greg: ... I can't speak to this, but the last T-55 conversions I recall were the Israelis back 30 years or so. I don't think that anyone would seriously do so...
mark.campbell@...
Jul 1, 2007 2:30 pm
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This turns out not to be the case. T-55 rebuilds are on the market because of the astonishing numbers of T-55 hulls out there, not because it is still...
... In 1904, First Lord Jacky Fisher retired or scrapped a huge chunk of what was then still the active RN. In 1906 he built the Dreadnought. (And swiped main...
... One way to do this is with a SoL drive. (Speed of Light, not the other meaning) It gets rid of the time travel aspect also. ... How about limited...
... It would have to be orders of magnitude more cheaply. Just for a comparison, transatlantic shipping rates dropped 95 percent between 1850 and 1900 -...
... are religious minroities. So at some point their plus more than cancels out everyone else's minus. However we are talking one hell of a crash in the...
... And more simply, if you go to China you probably to to Shanghai, not some village in the interior; same with India. Middle class is somewhat a term of art,...
LURKER MODE OFF IMHO, there would be 2 very hot fields for young Grad students throughout the Worlds, One would be biomimetics. This would use the vast...
Not to mention the time spent working on when various parts of missile technology are available to whom, how miniaturized you can produce components like Gamma...
... etc. No ... Well, two things that obviously drive technology in distinctive ways is what you need and what you've got. If you happened to inherit a big...
... True, and if you use beam-powered space tech that would give the laser industry a big hand up - though even in that case it would especially encourage...
... I am not asserting anything about what is the "correct" model, but rather I'm noting what is the "stereotypical" model. The Enterprise needs to be able to...
... I think everybody on this list is familiar with the problems introduced by stereotypical FTL. That's why we don't use stereotypical FTL in our settings. ...
... Something like this came up long ago on the Bujold mailing list, where we were discussing the tactical and strategic issues of the Hegen Hub. Short...
David McMillan
skyefire@...
Jul 1, 2007 10:48 pm
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... Absolutely. John Brunner touched on this subject in his essay about the tricky problem of an SF author justifying a culture with FTL starships using...
... I understand that is sneaks up on you. Remember Ken's story about how one fine day during a football half-time he had the germ of an idea of how to address...
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