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Kristopher

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  1. Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority You have exactly one actual example of that, regarding the FTL / relativity discussions, mainly as it relates to "time travel". And the big go-around on that topic was because I wasn't using the right terminology or something to ask the question I wanted answered. The Fermi "Paradox" isn't a scientific principle. It's just two assumptions that seem to be in conflict. Big whoop. EDIT: And you know, it gets really old when you say you don't agree with something, and almost instantly someone says "then read this very basic summary, you're wrong". If I hadn't read about the topic, I wouldn't have posted about it! I mean really, no one can ever disagree if they've read the basics? Come on...
  2. Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority No. In fact, I'm quite aware that I'm in the minority in thinking that it's much ado about nothing. Perhaps "ad personam", then -- making it about the person instead of the subject.
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  7. Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority OK, seriously, what is all the detailed handwringing over the Fermi "Paradox", other than pure speculation?
  8. Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority Yes, I've read all sorts of detailed discussions and explorations of the Fermi "Paradox". It doesn't tell us anything. All we know is that we haven't seen signs of anyone else yet. That's it. All that tells us, is exactly that, and only that. Nothing more.
  9. Re: Order of the Stick Huh. I did not get that one.
  10. Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority That it is not, however, does not mean anything definitive, except that it is not. It doesn't mean with any certainty that we are alone, or the first, or that interstellar colonization is impossible, or...
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  12. Re: Populating and fleshing out Saltmarsh Perhaps instead there's some harvesting of a product that's important for ship-building, such as a plant that produces high-quality fiber for rope, or a resin that makes a good ingredient in water-proofing and/or sealing joints between the hull planks.
  13. Re: Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion What happened to the "Theia impact" theory?
  14. Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? I guess it doesn't, it's just a peeve of mine.
  15. Re: Dwarves, Elves and Hobbits Need Not Apply! OK, getting back to this, in the fantasy setting I'm writing up off and on, I have various "People", each with a name denoting their origin or the god that most favored them. The Sun People were lost in the great war that ended the first age, for example. (Using generic terms for brevity.) The Twilight People don't share a common origin, or gods, with the other Peoples, having instead been created by the myriad "children" of The Dark (an... entity best decribed as the incarnation of the primordial dark void, something like the Greek Khaos). The Moon People would be the closest thing to "elves". The Fire People live in the deep places of the world, nearer to their goddess of the underworld and fire. Etc.
  16. Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition So... now? No? How about now? Um... ok. Now? What?
  17. Re: Extraterrestrial Organisms Already Here ? Wouldn't the foreign-origin DNA left over in such microbes probably stand out like a sore thumb? Assuming that they even used DNA?
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  19. Re: I am Spartacus If this is even worse than 300, it should be gone in a month or two.
  20. Re: Extraterrestrial Organisms Already Here ? When I've read about people purposefully putting directions back to earth on unmanned probes, sending out signals on purpose, etc, I've always wondered how on earth they thought that was a good idea.
  21. Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Stop talking sense, man.
  22. Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? So it's not beyond our comprehension.
  23. Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? I was bouncing around Wiki for rough numbers, here's the page I started out on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density. I had no idea how big Trantor was supposed to be, or how much land area to base the figures on, so I fudged with the numbers for Earth. I started out with Singapore to be conservative.
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