After finishing up GURPS Uplift, I took another look at _Contacting
Aliens_. And while it was fun to read again and check out the pics,
etc., and it's cool how it's laid out like a how to book for
Terragens agents dealing with Galactics, I noticed a substantial
number of what *appear* to be
Now that the thugs got Borklito and Roberts they start ratcheting up
their real agenda:
http://www.firedupmissouri.com/gop_bans_birth_control
The amendment, offered by Rep. Susan Phillips (R-Kansas City) removed
voluntary choice of contraception, including natural family planning
as one of the
In a message dated 3/16/2006 6:34:54 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
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After finishing up GURPS Uplift, I took another look at _Contacting
Aliens_. And while it was fun to read again and check out the pics,
etc., and it's cool how it's laid out like a how to book for
Jim Sharkey wrote:
After finishing up GURPS Uplift, I took another look at _Contacting
Aliens_. And while it was fun to read again and check out the pics,
etc., and it's cool how it's laid out like a how to book for
Terragens agents dealing with Galactics, I noticed a substantial
number
From FAIR... a collection of quotes about the war in Iraq. Incredible how
the tables have turned... We're going to win... we're winning... we
won... None of it was real
*The Final Word Is Hooray!*
Remembering the Iraq War's Pollyanna pundits
3/15/06
Weeks after the invasion of Iraq began,
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
The reason was that the book was _initially_ made with a much longer
lifespan for each race [with races living for hundreds of millions,
or even thousands of millions of years]
See, that makes a little more sense to me, in that it grants a lot
more stability to the
Jim Sharkey wrote:
The reason was that the book was _initially_ made with a much longer
lifespan for each race [with races living for hundreds of millions,
or even thousands of millions of years]
See, that makes a little more sense to me, in that it grants a lot
more stability to the
Terrific discussion. Oh, if only I had spare time...
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Alberto Monteiro wrote:
If you replace race by person and galactic society by
human society, you will see that 3,000 generations would take us
back to 100,000 years ago - and that 95% of this time is lost in
myth, speculation and (rare) scientific studies. The same goes for
Galactic Society.
Sorry, I definitely disagree that we have reliable written records from 6000 or
even 3000 years ago; the former pre-dates writing in general, and the latter
has huge gaps, depending on what you're studying (who, exactly, were the Sea
Peoples?)
We really only start to get reliable records only
David Brin wrote:
Terrific discussion. Oh, if only I had spare time...
Bah, spare time is overrated. Come play hooky with us for a half
hour; I mean, we're actually talking about your books for once! :-)
Unless of course you're afraid of what the Brin list actually talking
Brin might do to
David Brin wrote:
Terrific discussion. Oh, if only I had spare time...
Stop blogging evil grin
Alberto Monteiro
PS: ok, I will remove the Brin: for this discussion...
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Jim Sharkey wrote:
That's an interesting idea, and one I hadn't considered! However, as
they might say at Terragens training schools, you can't really take
human experience and overlay it onto Galactic experience. The
extrapolation of generations makes some logical sense, but the
core
Damon Agretto wrote:
Sorry, I definitely disagree that we have reliable written records
from 6000 or even 3000 years ago; the former pre-dates writing in
general, and the latter has huge gaps, depending on what you're
studying (who, exactly, were the Sea Peoples?)
But we have some data
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Also, from strictly a this is an awe-filled universe point of
view, I *like* the idea of races such as the Tothtoon and Krallnith
still being out there and having a legacy that stretches over half-
a- billion years. It gives the Four Galaxies a
Well, *some* data, that's true, but it's hardly IMHO what I would term as
reliable. In my example, FREX, can we reliably identify who the Sea Peoples
are, or have a discussion on Daily Life of Sumeria? Just IMHO, a listing of
kings and who they conquered this season does not constitute reliable
Jim Sharkey wrote:
I am not the Evil Overlord, I just command one Legion of Terror
Yes, but that has to have some rewards? You know, pillaging
peasants, impressing pneumatic young women, that kind of thing,
right?
Yes :-)
Sweet! Where can a sapient sign up for this duty?
You have to
At 07:36 PM Wednesday 3/15/2006, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:33 AM Wednesday 3/15/2006, Dave Land wrote:
This thing ends here:
There's a spark of magic in your eyes
Candyland appears each time you smile
Never thought that fairy tales came true
But they come true
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Subject: Fwd: [lbstakoma] sci-fi magazines
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:00:20 -0800 (PST)
Hi Everyone,
I haven't been around in a
David Brin has many virtues, but he is hardly obsessive about editing for
continuity. Contacting Aliens has a huge number of discrepancies. The
discrepancies are internal, it contradicts itself, it contradicts things
written by Brin, it contradicted all sorts of stuff from Gurps Uplift, 1st
In a message dated 3/16/2006 8:46:42 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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Instead, a tree of patron client relations would be dominated by
explosions.
Fertile patrons will have lots of clients. Most of these client lines will
die out relatively soon, but some will
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