them to Africa, and [there is honesty among
thieves] brought them back.
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Travis Edmunds wrote:
What about Andromeda's Avatar, Rommie?
Mmm.Rommie...
Or perhaps one better.thinking of Star Trek Enterprise
Is there any nice android - or shoud I say _ginoid_? - in Enterprise?
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is ineffective, I will say quote
brazilian police /quote.
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more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us
to obey and be humble and submit.
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(in the donor)?
No :-)
They returned the donor _without_ kidney to the place they hired
him
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Matt Grimaldi wrote:
Angel_888 wrote:
Gays are free to marry but the disabled are NOT...
(rest of text removed)
Was that a spam?
Yes, I don't know why people bother to reply.
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-Jem'Hadar (Star Trek)
-Jaffa (Stargate)
I would choose:
- Humans (any Heinlein Universe) :-)
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Travis Edmunds wrote:
I would choose:
- Humans (any Heinlein Universe) :-)
Ok, but why?
In Heinlein's books, humans are always the toughest
species in the cosmos.
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Trent Shipley wrote:
Lesh ab-Tothtoon ab-Rosh ab-Kosh ab-Erbl
ul-Zhuup ul-Vijls ul-Lith ul-Heebi
Erbl? Erbl uplifted them?
And the order should be ab-Erbl ab-Kosh ab-Rosh ab-Tothtoon
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disguising in another body.
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Nick Arnett wrote:
A friend of mine is one of the founders of a new web site
that is sort of a global collaborative blogging effort by
people who are expatriates.
No idea on how to _become_ an expatriate?
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Chad Cooper wrote:
But alas... Would the robots be allowed to show wrath upon unfriendly
aliens?
Yes, and they can be quite ruthless, as we read in the Foundation
and Robots trilogy
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Travis Edmunds wrote:
Lets take a look at starships. I'll just throw a couple into the mix to
start things off.
-A Borg cube (standard)
vs
-A Goauld mothership (Stargate)
- The enhanced Streaker at the end of Heaven's Reach!!!
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, that would seriously handicap them.
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that creates shells of barions in the nuclei
of normal atoms with an external layer of protons and - maybe -
electrons. Ok, maybe it's not a gigantic atom: it's a gigantic
ion, surrounded by atoms and electrons.
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out of existence.
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and
ships into that RPG. Then it would be easily to simulate the
battles.
What about using GURPS? They already have ready sets for
many of those different universes - including those with Time
Travel.
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David Hobby asked:
If we involve time travel and other near-infinite
improbabilities, why not count the Heart of Gold?
Not sure what book it's from.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. A must read
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that profess
a Christian faith
* it's ok to claim anti-christian slogans in front of churches,
like bring in the lions!
* a student that mentions anything anti-islamic is forced to
spend hours in reeducating classes, where he must study
and recite the Quram
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races
Most of those species would be doing nothing, except about
* 10% being uplifted
* 10% in the 100,000-year period of indenture
* 10% uplifting a pre-sentient race
* 10% being served by an indentured client
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those that uplifted the Guthatsa [who should be
thinking about retiring].
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!
If these things were celebrated here, people would be
dressed in _skin_! :-P
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Alvin filthy rich
whether or not he really wants to be so.
I know :-)
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about snow in Christmas, and I have 41 deg
in the termometer!
Congratulations: you have just entered my filter :-/
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life-spans, then 11% clients and 5% patrons might
provide for interesting but not grossly inequitble politics consistent with
existing sources on the Uplift Universe.
Uh?
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temperatures
slightly below that, in Winter.
Plus it's windy. Is it windy where you are?
We had winds last week. I even had to turn off the new computer
during a storm.
It gets very windy here.
Or are you going to be envious of my having wind? :)
No :-)
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to be alive). What do you do?
If one of my kids needed some special organ (say, the heart) and it
happened that the only one available (compatibility, etc) was _yours_,
I might try to kill you to harvest that organ.
That doesn't make it right.
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Huxley
and George Orwell, with a praise to Kubrick :-)
I don't know if someone has put it in the Free Sites, but the
song is _Admiravel Chip Novo_
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. But of course the concept of wrong comes full circle
back to my point.
My point - I guess I am repeating myself - is that morality choices done
in despair can't be the basis for a morality system. People kill for a piece
of bread [or a gram of cocaine].
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are assigned their clients all at once,
instead of finishing a project and starting the next Still you see my
point.)
Yes - I think
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with your interpretation of GURPS Uplift. But I still think that the
indenture phase should be _another_ phase. Uplift is considered a
service that the patron does to the client, so this must be followed
by the indenture, that is way of paying back.
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or older.
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with diapers and (things that
women use to absorb bleeding - dunno the English term)
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. It's a small world,
isn't it?
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, but also that her belly is enormous
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were relative to the observer,
and not only the three dimensions of space
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not only
is pregnant, but also that her belly is enormous
But then what if you mention it and she isn't?
You can find some excuses that will keep you alive,
even if this woman will never again consider you a
human being.
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: if the woman
has a big belly, and she's trying hard to show it, then she is
pregnant, and not noticing it is a deadly sin.
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they can to prevent tourists from crossing
the border :-/
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to take pictures of breastfeeding babies.
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to that :-/
Maybe the easiest way to enter the USA now is going to
Cuba, stealing a boat, and entering as a Castro refugee!
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pick 700ky.
If there are 2M inhabited planets then there are 14M fallow planets. At
any given time there must be a total of 16M habitable planets.
Ok, 700ky, or 1My, don't change the final numbers very much
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write?
Maybe you can keep things a little bit obscured :-)
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much IMHO.
With 200K species the odds of having more than, say, 12 clients would be
vanishingly small.
Unless a species is very long lived, which should _also_ be rare.
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the
University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music.
Those statistics don't have scientific value :-
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it
in an elliptical orbit that crosses the region where liquid
water is possible?
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of 1950
Weird History Maru II
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don't count A class leases because they are in need of terraforming.)
Total GIM B or C leases at present time = 2.11E+06
Giving us about 11.1 planets per race, which is close enough to 10.
Yes, I think the mean of 10 is consistent with the data that Earth has 10
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. We learned here in Brazil that the Republican
Party was Lincoln's Party, and that Lincoln made war against the
South Separatists.
Which one of these two statements is wrong?
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badly written [but I can't
blame my 3 mistakes on them O:-)]
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Ronn Blankenship wrote:
No comprehende.
Which language is this supposed to be?
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new in the
monster business, like Hafez Assad's heir, whose name I can't
remember]
Second, these monsters have friends, and if the USA wants
to take them down, probably it would have to take the allies
down too. Or maybe taking them down would _turn_ their
allies into new monsters.
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that wants you
to behave properly is better than believing that the configuration of
the planets justifies all your actions.
/serious
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. Maybe there's room to place one A planet
around each one of the pair :-)
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is not Gal7, it's
a corruption of New Dawn]
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Earth-like planets in the ecologically
viable zone.
Proxima, the third star, is so far away and so small that it doesn't
count.
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.
Give it a name -- Portuguese maybe (or nonsense derived from Portuguese).
Ah, I don't have enought creativity to make up things! :-)
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Do you know if it's bound with _only_ the pertubation of the
Galaxy as a whole? [of course, any close encounter with a
major star would rip C off that system :-)]
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the rocket must
carry.
I don't see - philosophically - how this can be an advantage.
Ramming air is essentially a collision problem, that significantly
reduces the speed of the rocket. If you carry the oxigen with yourself,
it is moving with the speed of the rocket.
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Tom Beck wrote:
(remember his AIDS initiative? Remember No Child Left Behind?)
Here in Brazil the number of children born with inherited AIDS
decreased from about 8% to about 3% in the past few years. We
_may_ have it under control.
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Kevin Tarr
How far apart are A and B? Distance of Pluto, more, less?
Sort of :-)
They are 11 to 23 AU apart [due to the orbit's eccentricity], which
is something between Saturn [10 AU] and Uranus [19 AU], but
less than Neptune [30 AU].
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, because then
you will be excluding sciences that deal with _human_ behaviour.
In other words, if you exclude human desires, persuasions, emotions or
free will, you will _never_ be able to take a scientific approach to
them.
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will become critical when v becomes of the
order of 8 * gIsp, and since 8 * gIsp is about 3x the escape speed,
the ramjet will be efficient for a long time.
Ok, now I believe :-)
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The Fool wrote:
Judges 11:31 - 40. Virgin Burnt Offering.
And it's not something that is praised by the guy who wrote that
book
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, they are _credible_ fiction, like a sitcom and unlike TV series
like Buffy or Charmed.
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Trent Shipley wrote:
Before do a write-up I needed some dates, so I re-collated the timeline.
Let me know what you think.
I have just returned from a week-long vacation trip, and I have
2028 e-mails to read O:-)
But I promise I will take a look at the data asap.
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Trent Shipley wrote:
Are Soro Obeyors?
What about Gubru?
I think Soro and Gubru are *not* fanaticals, meaning
that they don't belong to any of the religious-like alliances
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, and even a complete The-Hobbit-like
children's story. Maybe there will be David Brin new
material by 2104 :-)
/serious
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an alcohol car was build was 8 years ago.
Back to oil Maru
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speculate on _what_ we did wrong. Did the USSR fall
too early?
[ok, I promise I will check the other data later]
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by Gubru. Why not _explicitly_
give some date? But this is something that is still beyond my
computing powers: right now I am busy trying to spot some
inconsistencies in the movements of Jijo's Moons.
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the earlier source or assume it is is error and make a correction.
IIRC, this was overlooked in the GU2 Timeline.
I would like to present the recent dates in terms that are
human-understandable.
As in 277-Q1, or 277-February?
No, as in 2489-May : Streaker flees to Kithrup :-P
Alberto
, it's convenient to accept
them as approximations. 250 could be 251. BTW, where is it written that
Contact happened 250 years after the first human flight?
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the first wave of memnetic plagues.
But of course this would not allow the Cambrian explosion on Earth O:-)
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of Halloween].
Are there any other obscure references to Earth's dates, like
Valentine, Christmas, etc?
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these are the colonies
[notice the plural!] around Alpha Centauri. The plural suggests that
there could be two [or three] of them, around desolate worlds in
that system.
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What about 2267 AD? It would be 225 years ago, or about 281
Jijo Years ago, or about Jijo Year 1650, as in GU2, p.150
[there are many references to 300 Jijo Years of Human Occupation
in Jijo, but I can always assume that 300 is a close approximation
to 280]
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PS: I don't like
bird-robot]
If we can safely exclude NuDawn and Dezni from being among the
Canaan Colonies, then Deemi _can't_ be one of them, because one
world does not a collection of worlds make O:-)
I $hould have been a lawyer instead of a spaceship pilot :-/
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or less
[because Jijo's Year is (multi-luni)-solar]. Jijo's Timeline is written in
Jijo Years, because that's what they use.
revised timeline follows. [By the way, this has been a lot of work. Do we
want DB's imprimateur?]
Not until we have full support of the College of Cardinals :-)
Alberto
My 10-year-old daughter accidentally killed my 4-year-old's character.
Is there any way to raise de dead?
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PS: yes, I know the sims is evil and must be eradicated
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in a Jacuzzi.
We recreated the guy from scratch, moved the clone to the
house of the murdered character, and iteracted a long time to
restablish his relationship with the girlfriend-widow of the
former character. Bernardo didn't notice the change.
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Jim Sharkey wrote:
If my kids were watching I'd have been more upset Maru
How weird. My kids watch breasts and nipples all the time
and they don't give a damn
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Jim Burton wrote:
Probably should say snail-like creatures or somesuch.
What is the proper scientific way to say that an creature looks similar
to a Terran animal? Analogous (sp)?
Convergent-evolutionaryly similar. Why not create AFT? A ces-snail
or ces-amphibians?
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be seeing a source of food? Are they
_that_ young? :-
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is the
race that Uplifted that species. _A_ Patron is any race in the
Chain of Uplift. _The_ Grandpatron, a grandpatron, the grand-grandpatron,
etc are obvious.
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the Fall of Roma.
If a group of Jews make a movie about WWII in the year 3950 will
there be Germans complaining that it sheds them in a bad light?
By 3950... no! By 2050, Germany will be a part of Turkey :-)
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there will be Jews by the year 39500 :-)
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If Galaxy 4 is Andromeda, and since Jijo's sky features the
3rd brightest spiral arm of that Galaxy, we might try to
locate Jijo in an Andromeda photo!!! The problem is that we
will see Andromeda as it was some aeons ago :-)
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Doug Pensinger wrote:
Robertwrote:
/* Source Code Windows 2000 */
ROTFL!!
Thanks for that, Rob, where did it come from?
It only proves that M$ is reusing the code, because I saw
that for Windows 95.
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got just behind the Ash.
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... that I will update some day]
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destroy itself.
And I don't think the Federation is that much democratic. It seems that
Earth has a kind of dominance over the other planets of the Federation.
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I must be doing something _really_ stupid, but why I can't draw
even a simple tetrahedron with OpenGL? One of the faces does
not show :-/
Is there any magic word that I must utter before it works?
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visible and the Red Face
becomes invisible.
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the problem.
No, it didn't.
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Steve Sloan wrote:
I think you should get rid of the glNormal statement.
No. No change at all :-(
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Ticia wrote:
Monogamous, bi, married, expecting first baby in June...
How can someone be monogamous _and_ bi? Bi implies
that you have at least two partners! :-)
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Ritu wrote:
And who would 'pure' heterosexuals be? People who find homo-sexuality
repulsive?
No, 'pure' heterosexuals are those that do not have any attaction
to people of the same sex _and_ that have attaction to people
of the opposite sex.
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