03-29-2023, 06:36 AM | #31 | |
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Re: Transhuman Space/Avatar
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I'd honestly be more concerned that cheap antimatter would make Helium-3 madness irrelevant and negate the high ground advantage that the Duncanites rely on. Good lasers don't help either (i.e. build orbital solar power plants for Earth, shove objects around the solar system). |
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03-29-2023, 09:44 AM | #32 | |
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Re: Transhuman Space/Avatar
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I mean, look. The actual logic of Transhuman Space's space development is incredibly loose, optimistic, and downright incorrect at times. That's fine - you'd have to push the timeline back by 50-100 years in order for that level of development to be plausible imo (well, less what happens to Mars), and that'd mean you'd have to significantly retard the development of computer and gengineering technology, deal with the big demographic changes, etc. But it also means responding to a discussion of the consequences of Earth access to Pandora by nitpicking the second order effects of the tech is a bit like questioning how, exactly, these giant meat-eating dragons are supposed to find anything to eat in Westeros when the place clearly lacks sufficient excess agriculture to support more than a handful of cities across a continent the size of South America. Any story I care to tell is about who's going to throw in with the Targaryens, not the diet of their dragons. |
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03-29-2023, 12:51 PM | #33 | |
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Re: Transhuman Space/Avatar
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Anyway, the plausible first thing to do is to reduce the cost of shipping anything from Sol to Alpha Centauri from billions to to tens of millions by building their own laser. This also let's them ship stuff back. As there's little reason to go down a gravity well to start building stuff (for one thing the atmosphere is going to get in the way, another is sending a craft that can land is probably much more expensive than just a small ship to start construction.), they'll probably keep busy in space before landing, unless there's some reason to establish operations on Pandora very, very early. |
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