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Re: More space news! OK, those were the puzzle pieces I was missing! Thank you very much! Must spread the wealth before giving Cancer somewhat random rep!

Re: More space news! So assuming that works in reverse, we have to be within a quarter of a degree of Earth II's ecliptic for Kepler to see it, and assuming that exoplanet's orbital inclination is somewhat random* from our point of view, we have less than a 1 in 700 chance of seeing Earth II? *somewhat random: I assume exoplanet's orbits will tend to cluster near their primary's ecliptic, 90 degrees from the star's axis of rotation. What I don't know is if there is a preferred direction for the axis of a star's rotation. If stars' axes tend to line up more-or-less galactic north-south (as I believe our sun's does), then targeting Kepler toward Cygnus seems a strange decision.

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Re: More space news! Those are our choices? I was thinking more along the line of a couple dozen uncrewed missions, remote controlled prospector rovers, communications arrays at L-2 and either L-4 or L-5 to control rovers on the far side, and the option of an uncrewed automated sample return mission if the rovers find anything interesting.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster That was my point, he hasn't.

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Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Someone had to do it [ATTACH=CONFIG]41398[/ATTACH] I'm just surprised no one did it before.

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Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster He tapped on it a bit. In context he was saying that he was a contractor who was not listed in the phone book, but there was a joke for those in the audience who were familiar with the source material.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Who repeatedly mentioned he wasn't in the book.

Re: Need help for a low-level / street-level-campaign Give him a DNPC? Nell the Generic Girlfriend who always needs rescuing? Spunky girl reporter's been done to death, but that's because it works. Or a rookie cop who saved the mayor's life as much through a fluke as anything else, and has been too quickly promoted beyond her competence? Inner city social worker who confides her clients are telling her weird stories about [foreshadowing future opponents].

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Re: More space news! Or long lived. Or patient. Or better at setting long range goals. Trouble with trying to solve the Fermi paradox is the solution has to apply to every tech savvy species that might ever evolve. Interstellar colonization is either impossible or highly, highly improbable. But if it is highly improbable, that first species that hits the jackpot will be the 800 pound gorilla. For that reason, if no other species has done it, I think we should give it our best try.

Re: BOOK OF THE EMPRESS Kickstarter Makes sense. As I said, live and learn.

Re: More space news! There are plenty, but they are mostly in the DOD. Myself, I'm more than willing to allow the military to foot the bill for developing the infrastructure, but some people seem to want no space program if the alternative is one with the military involved.

Re: BOOK OF THE EMPRESS Kickstarter Strange, having never been in that industry I would have guessed the other way around, core rules at or slightly below cost to get the player interested, then make the money on the supplements. Live and learn.

Re: BOOK OF THE EMPRESS Kickstarter Maybe you can find someone like me who just wants the PDF and go halfsies?

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Re: "Neat" Pictures Probably Urban Legend, but one story is that Pierre L'Enfant hated with a passion John Jay.

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Re: More space news! Can we define colonize/colony in this context? Permanent infrastructure with rotating personnel? People intentionally making a one way trip? People going with the intent of having/raising kids there?

Re: More space news! Make 5) a permanent presence on the Moon & Lagrange point(s), O'Neil habitats Add 7.5) O'Neil habitats in the belt

Re: More space news! Telescopes Team Up to Give Us Our First Real Look at a Black Holehttp://www.pcworld.com/article/248286/telescopes_team_up_to_give_us_our_first_real_look_at_a_black_hole.html Now Imagine if we had a radio telescope, even an uncrewed remote controled one, on the Lunar surface for an even longer baseline array.

Re: Needing a Name for a Density Increase Super Heroine No, that's Ozmium.