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Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority There's no problem with speculation. There's just a problem with that particular speculation.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Oops, I meant to quote Marcdoc in that post.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? I have to disagree. If the climate is suitable for humans and if there are massive amounts of food and water, there will be bugs, rats and similar vermin, which means there will also be spiders, cats and similar predators. Unless you make a specific, concerted effort to eliminate them (or contrive some inherent technological reason to exclude them) any planet with that much activity will have riders, guaranteed.

Re: Star Wars licence news... That would surprise me. But what other RPG company has money on the scale of WOTC? Because you can't reprint the existing books without the license?

Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority http://xkcd.com/638/

Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority Bingo.

Re: Extraterrestrial Organisms Already Here ? I always thought it was a long shot. Still, you can't win if you don't play.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? The point seems to be that while we don't know exactly how the numbers would work out, because nobody's ever operated on that scale, there's no reason to believe that the numbers couldn't work out.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Which would be a problem if you tried to build an enormous city out of whole cloth. When they grow organically over time, though, such logistical issues tend to sort themselves out one way or another (or else they don't grow).

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Re: Lockheed Martin HULC Exoskeleton You could put stars and stripes on the first HULC supersuit and call him the Star-Spangled Banner.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? In the case of Star Wars, that's true. There's no attempt to justify anything with science, which is just fine for a fantasy setting like that. However positing a way for it to work is a reasonable world-building exercise.

Re: "Neat" Pictures You call that breaking? The fog and smoke from your average summoned demon covers up more than that! Kids today are ill-served by overprotective parents. In my day we wore floor-sweeping robes and if the circle of ash got jostled a little, why, that's just a chance we took!

Re: "Neat" Pictures How is it broken? Looks like a match to the book to me.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? I rest my case.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? The sewage gets processed into fertilizer for the enormous sublevel farms. Duh. Seriously, I never understood why people can't conceive of cities and high-tech farms coexisting.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Bah, all those tall buildings had enormous shafts devoted to superfood hydroponics.

Re: Library Cataloging System for a Multidimensional Library Does the act of cataloging a book create an alternate timeline in which the book wasn't successfully cataloged?

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Definitely. I can envision planets with only one habitat suitable for human life, though, which is the direction I'd go if I were trying to make a Star Wars-like setup more plausible.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? All-desert planets seem pretty common! Others, not so much. I imagine all-ocean planets wouldn't be hard to arrange.

Re: Humans nearly went extinct One wonders how much such an event influences later evolution. Could it have been pivotal in creating such an exceptional species as us?

Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority Could be. The idea that we're the only planet with intelligent life is statistically ridiculous, but the idea that we're the only planet with intelligent life that we'll ever see? Not so ridiculous.

Re: The Singularity? As I understand it, the Singularity will usher in sex so mind-bogglingly advanced that we can't even conceive of it with our puny human brains. Suddenly "the Geek Rapture" makes a lot of sense.