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(I wonder, Arioch, if you had given some thought to possible causality violations brought about by the existence of FTL; in a large part, these violations become far less likely if no FTL communications and no "free" FTL travel exists) The system is constructed so that causal violations are essenti...

The single biggest problem for the Loroi, regardless of whatever the Umiak have found out, is that they very likely broadcast the capabilities of their farseer network 100% of the time, and never made the Umiak have to guess about whether or not they'd been spotted. Of course they may not have had t...

She has little reason to lie to him about the circumstances, especially since he's revealed that they've had part of the Umiak picture of what happened from the Orgus.

nuclear propulsion would be the best for that scenario, but whether orion based or an open core drive, the launch pad is going to get irradiated.

I just checked on Celestia, and within a radius of barely 45 lightyears from Earth there are already 500 known stars. Counting binary and trinary star-systems? I was under the(probably false) idea that the 400ish closest star systems to us were within a 150 LY radius. As for angles, you'd more or l...

Capital has to compete with labor, and that includes the high initial startup cost. given the prevalence of cheap labor across planet earth, robots are probably not just on the cusp of being adopted. It makes sense to automate when a basic laborer is getting 20-30$ an hour, not so much at 1$ per ho...

So, we need to make transport much more expensive, so that goods are produced where they are consumed, unless the costs of the product makes the cost of transport a viable option. Today, the cost of transport is close to negligible, the time delay transport includes is more a limiting factor than t...

re: the exoplanet debate, the loroi are probably poring over every star looking for something with an appropriate mass in the liquid water zone with an oxygen atmosphere. there aren't going to be many candidates around the wastes for such a star/planet. There seem to be plenty of planets with a sim...

Capital has to compete with labor, and that includes the high initial startup cost. given the prevalence of cheap labor across planet earth, robots are probably not just on the cusp of being adopted. It makes sense to automate when a basic laborer is getting 20-30$ an hour, not so much at 1$ per hour.

re: the exoplanet debate, the loroi are probably poring over every star looking for something with an appropriate mass in the liquid water zone with an oxygen atmosphere. there aren't going to be many candidates around the wastes for such a star/planet.

Not really, just made the invasion of Poland go faster. Oh Arioch no no no, I am sorry but that is entirely untrue. The Soviet Union was very serious about forming a long lasting relationship with Hitler and the economic, military and political support they gave to Nazi Germany ranged from consider...

Russia still exists, so yeah, that can be counted as a win for them. As to the war itself, blunder or not Russia vs Germany was probably inevitable.

They look great, I especially like the higher-resolution version of page 6, that might revive some discussions. But before that, look at the thief on page 2 skulking off with a fire extinguisher.

If you're going to play MOO3 I recommend setting immigration off in Population.txt, specifically the Distance to System per jump line(set the value to -999 so immigration drops off after 1 jump). I've found that this radically decreases the processing time for turns, as well as produces less crappy ...

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Ktrain wrote:Beryl has yet to grasp the human concept of sarcasm...

...and then it will only confirm the Loroi in their opinion that spoken words are a tool of deception.
Heh. Heckuva job for you, Alex!

Yes its for your safety Alex...

It would be immensely difficult for them to decipher how files are stored, what the various formats are, what the executable instructions are, how programs are laid out, and so on well before they get to something like being able to display a video. It will probably just be simpler for them to ask n...

The Loroi problem is trusting the information that they get, and that is too much of a tough nut for them to crack at the moment.

zak: quite true, but we are using most of the GOOD farm land, combine that with the whole fertilizer/fuel problem that is likely to crop up soon, there is reason to be worried, not panicked, true, but worried. population growth + decrease in food production = increase in food costs. Don't forget th...

(for the bad: the deregulation of the wheat markets has gone too far, as demonstrated by the fact that speculators can as a group now dominate the markets, leading to artificial scarcity: it was previously kept in check by keeping all buyers below a certain amount of business). The wheat markets ar...

After all "Alex and hot blue space elves" souns a lot more appealing than "Alex and the space bugs".

Cmon Bro Patriarchy Bugs.