Maybe tommorrow our reptilian/roman overlords will arrive and say: "hey, look at you guys!" Careful what you wish for.
I for one welcome our new overlords, and can be very useful in rooting out traitors and subversives
IF life on Earth like planets develops like here
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I for one welcome our new overlords, and can be very useful in rooting out traitors and subversives
True. How do we know that they haven't already been here? We don't. But, if you get a chance to know some certain USAF officers well...
Quoted for truth. Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!
This brings to mind the old idea that any technological civilization will have to survive its wars and conflicts when it reaches the nuclear weapons (and later, more fearsome ones if they make past he first) stage before it can become star-faring.
So how many times do they fail and thus reduce further the number of potential contacts in just our neck of the woods? And the ones that do: the corollary to the above concept is that the ones who are sufficiently advanced should, in theory, be civilized enough socially to be peaceful and might not want outright contact with more violent "primitives" until the primitive grew up. Personally I think that's pretty blue-sky, but it always seems ot come up in this sort of discussion.
I for one welcome our new overlords, and can be very useful in rooting out traitors and subversives
Thanks Kent Brockman, you won't be sent to the underground sugar caves.
Indeed. Even today, TL8? maybe even TL7? we're on the edge of what H. Beam Piper called 'carniculture' in his Terro-Human Future History (the universe that Space Viking, Four Day Planet, and the Fuzzy series all take place in); if the pre-spaceflight Fteirle also achieve carniculture, that could well cause a population explosion on Kusyu. Do I think that they will achieve the population densities that we see in areas of Terra? No. Psychologically, they still need the open space and comparatively low population density, and that - probably more than anything else - will drive them into space and colonization of other worlds. Certainly, they will want the most Fteirle-compatible worlds, but land ownership won't need to be ownership of agriculturally productive land.
Correct. The energy requirements to "grow" just meat is a small fraction of what it takes to produce an entire animal. This throws all the calculation seen previously on this thread, right out the window. Bu, bye.
Traveller, in general, ignores the logical rise in tech. Case in point, CT Trav assumed that mainframes of the 70's would be the architecture going forward. The game was basically add lasers, fusion and space drive. Everything remains 1970's TL. Most likely because the author was probably not a science guy but, a Lib Arts type. (probably why the game got created though). So can't complain really.
I wasn't even thinking of the energy requirements per se; rather, a cow's worth of carniculture meat simply won't require the acreage of grain that a cow does - the source of the proteins, enzymes, et cetera that go into the nutrient solution don't necessarily have to come from the same grains that Elsie-on-the-hoof would eat and digest; it can come from other crops, the wastage from human-edible food, synthesis, et cetera.
Within a couple of TL's we'll be able to synthesize everything required. No crops for this then.
"Here at Empiri-pork we raise nothing but the finest bacon in our growing vats. The all-natural method for hundreds of years, our bacon mills pride themselves at the kilometers of bacon produced and shipped to the markets every day, fresh to your table! Why just seeing the fleets of bacon ships take off not only fills me with pride but it makes me as hungry as an Aslan.... for some bacon.
Empiri-pork! Good Enough For The Emperor, Good enough For You! "
Empiri-pork! Good Enough For The Emperor, Good enough For You! "
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...ah yes, New Azuria. The only planet ever eaten in conquest. Once the Vargr heard the tales there was no stopping the horde.
...ah yes, New Azuria. The only planet ever eaten in conquest. Once the Vargr heard the tales there was no stopping the horde.
I guess it's gone to the dogs...
Beggin landing strips. har har
