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Old 02-12-2019, 01:25 PM   #239
johndallman
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Default Re: Earth analogues or not

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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
In any case, I can't imagine many fields where exciting science or engineering is going on in the first couple of ASN generations where it really matters all that much whether this is an earlier Earth, an Alternate Earth or some imaginary world which just happens to mimic Earthly conditions on the world well enough for science to work down there.
The first place where it could show is isotopes, once they start on nuclear technology. Since the basic concept of isotopes is firmly TL6, first theorised in 1913, it's imaginable that these worlds lack them. However, the ASN probably haven't got that far yet.
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