Prestige as well, but yes MAD.. But going where? Until we have a workable star drive or means to get past the solar system, or even to the nearest planets in...
Traveller Part two of the Levall Affair - After leaving Eca IV, to continue the pursuit of Elliot Powell, the players must follow the heavy freighter Tregarn...
... Playing around with the money system hold the entire economy captive instead of going after each person for what you can get out of them. Lack of freedom...
Would be nice if we could get more access to real cheaper/low priced cars from China, India, Russia and not have to be stuck with the cheaply made over priced...
World Government Queen of Earth (she or he son William has claims to most of the Planet, in one form or another, from Spain, Russia, Greece, the Common ...
There will never be a One-World-Government. Why would small nations that have remained peaceful for a long time, with a rich history (such as Denmark - from...
Maybe why I have a problem with the UN one world government is the whole one chamber? No one for the small person or small nation. Why we have the Senate in a...
I expect its only in the Star Frontiers universe or what? Traveller and D20 Future/Space or .. got my own sci-fi/fantasy multiverse but always good to port it...
... The cheap cars from China, India, Russia, etc, are cheap for a reason: they're seriously crappy. The reason we can't get them in the US is because either...
I was going to say, its not just labor costs that make cars in the US expensive. There are fuel standards, crash standards, etc... ... [Non-text portions of...
And you have to have a physical connection between you the dirver and the steering? Many chear cars are drive by wire. Or what if the power goes out? Mike...
The replicator example given in the unintended consequences section really seems to me to capture the essence of the intellectual property debate really well....
League of Extraordinary Gentles? Sherlock Holmes? Dr. Who? Who else? And not just from Euro-American literature? Sky Captain Qui Chang Cain? We are speaking...
Speaking of Chinese military capabilities... chrisw ... New Concerns Over Chinese 'Carrier-Killer' April 01, 2009 U.S. Naval Institute With tensions already...
Rifts is a great? game with really power mongering systems it is a multiworld with gods, alien intelligeinces, demons and devils, rifts earth had a war, this...
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23292/ Imagine my lack of surprise. "Warp drives were generally considered impossible by mainstream scientists until...
... Not easy at all, one would think. A BM that can do 2000km ought to be picked up by DSP assets pretty easily. And I'd be sure that the USN would do their...
David McMillan
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Apr 3, 2009 5:11 pm
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Not an informed opinion but it seems to me if our satellites can detect the launch of a ballistic weapon then they ought be able to detect the testing of a...
Hum, subspace or .. Egg or Chicken? Idea or .. Mike ... From: "Winchell Chung" <nyrath@...> To: <sfconsim-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, April 03,...
... This sounds extremely overstated. It was well-known long before that patches of spacetime moving faster than light relative to each other are perfectly...
There are some people on this list -- myself included -- who could theoretically provide answers to the questions asked (explicitly and implicitly) below....
... The linguist in me loves listening to how people talk when they can't say everything they think. Millitary personnel discussing classified information,...
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