08-13-2009, 08:26 PM | #31 |
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I'm dead certain that it wasn't. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neu...al_constructor
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08-13-2009, 08:27 PM | #32 | |
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So research and development pretty much is the economy, with the manufacturing itself being a very secondary aspect. Interstellar trade in commodities is often from lower tech colonies to higher tech ones (where the labour costs on the high tech ones are so high that transport costs are far less) or it consists mostly of components and blueprints to enable the establishment of a local manufacturing plant.
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08-13-2009, 08:31 PM | #34 | |
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There is FTL travel in the setting. It is an Imperial monopoly, however, because the same technology, indeed, the same drive, that can transport ships between planets will ignite a cataclysmic thermonuclear reaction if activated inside an atmosphere. As in, the world is dead. All life erased and the planet is uninhabitable for a very long time. Compared to that, relativistic projectiles are only moderately dangerous.
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08-13-2009, 08:39 PM | #36 |
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No, there is FTL which does about 1,000 c. Switching on an FTL engine in a planetary atmosphere is dangerous: Earth and one populous colony were wiped out by this effect, resulting in tens of billions of premature deaths.
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And pardon me if I'm cynical, but I wouldn't trust nukes on the free market, even with anti-tamper switches on them.
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Combine with the usefulness of FTL technology, and a society that goes for lightly-regulated FTL with safety measures will outcompete one that centrally controls FTL the same way the USA outcompeted the USSR. Quote:
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