Kristopher

Re: Star Wars licence news... I'll watch the CW cartoon if it's on, though I prefer the non-Anakin episodes... I can't really regard the man who, in a few years, will betray all his friends, who will take part in the murder of billions at Alderaan, as a hero.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Some of the numbers we've been throwing around were in the 1 - 5 trillion range, based on either the land surface area or Earth or the given land area of Trantor, and the population density of some notable cities.

Re: Star Wars licence news... I liiked the basic of the d6 system, but the attributes, and the particular grouping of skills under the attributes, needed work, and beginning characters were... a little anemic compared to the setting and the stories.

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition Christmas in February?

Re: Good bye Constellation Program If you really want to discuss politics this badly, and cram political side comments into every post on every subject, there's always the NGD board.

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Re: Good bye Constellation Program Cargo rail is financially solvent and successful. What does this have to do with the Constellation Program? I'm sad to see the future moon mission push scrapped, but not sad to see the rehash of Apollo, based on disposable capsules, dumped like the sack of crap it is.

Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now (Disclaimer: this is NOT directed at anyone here.) I just find it funny that people who scoff at the idea of FTL or anti-gravity technology as "science fantasy" will turn around and speak of things like "computronium" and "nanites" as if they're a given, and then you ask them how to make "computronium", or how theyr'e going to overcome the basic physical (energy, waste heat, etc) hurdles of making nanites as depicted in their futurist visions, they say "I don't know but I'm sure it will be figured out soon", often followed by a far-off smling gaze and some blather about The Singularity!!!!

Re: Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion In such a highly unlikely scenario, you might get an explosive reaction out of that, if all the variables were just right -- variables that are hard to get right when you're trying to make it happen. Problem 1: you get a reaction at masses far less than the mass needed to "blow the moon off". Problem 2: if you have a collistion anyway, the explosion is superfluous.

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Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible?

Re: Pulpy Art Arise, thread...

Re: Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion

Re: Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion Long, long step from "reaction" to "detonation" when it comes to fission.

Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Only if Orion comes with a free set of life-extending or suspended-animation technolgies as part of the sales package.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade#Physiology

Re: Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion The basic problem is that there's probably no way to get a fission detonation out of natural phenomena.

Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Orion wouldn't make a trip to another "earth" any more feasible.

Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority

Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority And I wouldn't argue with any of that. 1) I may very well be hung up on the name, because to me, it's not a paradox. Conflicting assumptions do not a paradox make -- it just means that you're missing something, or outright wrong. 2) The assumptions behind the "paradox" are so often stated with much unjustified conviction -- especially the one about the colonial spread of alien species. You can compile a list of hundreds of reasons that any particular species might "fail" to do so, and at least one person in the discussion will say, in effect, "Doesn't matter, it would still happen." It's almost as if the colonial spread is taken on faith, or as an axiom. 3) My reaction to a setup such as the Fermi "Paradox" is one of "OK, let's look into it, and see what we can find out, but until we know more, let's not jump to any conclusions or get too damn wound up about it." I hate it when people jump to conclusions, and it only takes one right guess in ten for them to think that it's justified, because most people seem to remember success more easily and strongly than failure.

Re: Your Top Ten Science Fiction Writers, and then some. On the topic at hand, I find that, just as I tend to like songs rather than bands, I tend to like stories rather than writers. That said, I like a lot of Niven, and a lot of Bujold.

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