On Feb 22, 2013, at 8:51 AM, "Alaconius" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert Forward's depictations of Antimatter drives and the like had me > thinking that perhaps GURPS VEHICLES overstated the problems inherent in > antimatter production and/or storage. I also pointed out that - seeing as we > can already produce antimatter now, and that Robert Forward concluded that we > could "ramp up" production and make its cost per unit drop - as he put it, it > was an engineering problem rather than a R&D issue, I concluded that per the > standard GURPS VEHICLES rules, we could or should extrapolate the costs for > production at earlier tech levels. I'd have to find my notes again (if they > still exist!) regarding this issue :( To be fair, Robert Forward tends to be optimistic in his depictions: recall the Bush Robots from some of his stories, and his failure to accont for the software nightmare that they represent. I'm not saying that he's _wrong_; but I'd rather see the numbers before deciding. > _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
