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11-07-2017, 10:30 AM | #52 | |
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Without that you'd need to totally change the nature of cosmic radiation in the setting. Perhaps making it something that really did only give you a tan.
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11-09-2017, 06:13 AM | #53 | |
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11-09-2017, 09:14 AM | #54 |
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That wouldn't the people at the Ceres base or several other installations.
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11-09-2017, 02:02 PM | #55 |
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Good point, but what powers the station power plant? You could mame it work as an explanation.
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11-09-2017, 02:57 PM | #56 |
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Without WWI or socialism, all technological developments would be a lot less widespread. Especially on Lucifer-5, where the highest tech is in the skies, completely removed from ordinary people.
The less developed world would be even less important and more left behind, save for the few areas with the super-science metals. And even the mines in the Belgian Congo & Yucatan would be removed from their surroundings, with access probably by air rather than road or rail (maybe some water for heavier imports). A torchship servicing the Congo mines could crash in much lower TL part of the Congo. |
11-09-2017, 05:44 PM | #57 | |
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It would be about political goals. By the way, a WWI free planet could have a USA were socialism is still popular. WWI and the Russian revolution were very bad for socialism in the USA. In this world the USA might even have a viable Labor Party.
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11-10-2017, 01:14 AM | #58 | |
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11-10-2017, 01:43 AM | #59 |
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Did it? Aero engines advanced considerably. While most late-WWI aircraft looked a lot like early ones, there'd been advances in structures and aerodynamics to make them stronger and faster.
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11-10-2017, 06:22 AM | #60 |
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Monocoque structures, monoplanes (not their first appearance, but there were quite a number by 1918, designed for practical use), all-metal construction.
The war also produced a large number of surplus aircraft, which cheap supply helped aircraft become popular for tasks like airmail and civilian search and recon, or even entertainment (barnstorming), creating lots more pilots. Applications for aircraft create demand which will draw R&D. A setting without a war might have slower aircraft development simply because of this factor. Rather than a mass-produced tool, aircraft might conceivably remain hobbyist curiousities, more like 1910 than 1930. |
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