Here is how to use lasers to beat snipers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3206493.stm The ground-based carbon dioxide laser, which is said to have a...
Could always sync the laser with a sound detector on a tripod and have the laser shoot at the location of the shot just as it is detected? You shoot, the laser...
I had recently dropped a C note on Deluxe GEV miniatures and was all excited. Then i found the minis were unassembled and unpainted. Having never owned minis...
James Nicoll, from a post on rec.arts.sf.written: I am going to quote Jo Walton on Third Artist Syndrome because she said it better than I would: "SF is...
... Eh. I've seen stories which combined destruction of the earth's atmosphere (by pollution/etc) with terraforming, with no idea of how little sense that...
I think depends on how far the destruction went? Terraforming may be just reseeding things, reintroducing wild animals from captive or DNA stock with some...
... Step one: create categories. Step two: get nominations. Step three: vote. Step four: announce the Science Fallacy awards after X-mass. To get the ball...
... maintained ... mundane ... recent ... Especially "Implausibly good rockets, bustling trade routes with thousands of ships arriving at and departing from...
... "Multithousand year technology gaps between different civilizations can be made up in under a year with little more than some trade and a lot of...
... Who needs the direct connection to the brain? We are, in a lot of ways, dependent on them already. ... Alien races whose names have lots of pronouncable...
... In Keith Laumer's RETIEF novels, he deals with the problem in a typical Laumer fashion. The aliens will have an exotic name: e.g., "Souetti" The humans...
I am normally over my head on most of what get discussed here [I am a technoidiot and at 60 unlikely to change that]. However the unitary government point is...
scott palter
finalswordproductions...
Nov 3, 2008 4:40 pm
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US and other mega-nations, still share some things, namely they was all founded by one ethnic group, or atleast who shared a common culture in common. US - UK ...
... Can we send a certain American governor, up north, well up east, to suggest that French speaking Canadians ain't "real" Canadians? Do you think they'll...
Quebec is constantly trying to escape. They was forced to join, and ... Actually Alaska is NW of Quebec. Ore more WNW west for the most part of the new...
... a technoidiot and at 60 unlikely to change that]. However the unitary government point is within my expertise and worth comment. ... Brazil] tend to be so...
All the counties of Ireland are on the same isle. Has not prevented near endless war over boundaries, loyalties, things that happened hundreds of years...
scott palter
finalswordproductions...
Nov 3, 2008 6:48 pm
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True to a point, some of the conflict was due to external forces. And some due to the fragementary nature of Irish culture and how until recent times that...
also we tend as humans to enculturate(is that a word) into groups, yeah we are a fighting, but if an outised force tries to move groups line up to stop the new...
lol, ever read ecotopia I am for bioregionalism lol ________________________________ From: Abrigon Gusiq <abrigon@...> To: sfconsim-l@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
there are a couple games that explore that issue, high frontiers, a one hit nonwonder was interesting after earth had a nuclear war those left on space...
whine, whine , whine, there is all kinda of good scifi this third artist stuff is bs, and as gamers we have even other and better stories [Non-text portions...
True on succession and more. Texas was a classic, in part due to economics, many Anglos was invited in, but it had some problems, not only cause the Anglos was...
I am Borg, as seen by my cell phone? Connect cell phone, disconnect brain. Disconnect Cell phone and learn how to drive? Mike ... From: "Sam McConnich"...
One I love is one of the first steps to war, is to dehumanize the enemy and make them appear to be less than human, and there fore it is okay to kill them? ...
... near endless war over boundaries, loyalties, things that happened hundreds of years earlier. ... Bigger island (in terms of travel times and costs) and...
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