Masoculture For many thousands of years, psychologists and sociologists were baffled by popular taste. That well-written, beautifully thought out and crafted,...
Happy new year everybody!! Well for some it was yesterday because of time differences, but happy new year anyway. It was a hell of year, and I mean that in...
I'm looking for some suggestions here--this is something that I think fits into the universe, but the ideas won't gel. Given how often conflict and battle...
Last night I posted up some ideas on the "rules of war", how they were unwritten to free combatants up to fight as was necessary while making sure things...
Hmm, you do come up with some wacked out shit dude! Well, well, I can certainly relate. I've become that way with MP3's. I've literally dozens of them that I...
1st thing 1st, it's taking me some time to assimilate this setting, and I don't want you to think I'm not going to pull my weight here. I'm just getting my...
How did I come up with it? I was looking through my old sci-fi books, the ones I bought before I went to college and had to start paying my own way, and I...
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 22:32:10 ... Good ideas in there, and some bad ones. The point about maniti being more economists than warriors fits in very well with my...
Sorry for the silence the past few days, and the somewhat crude writing. My laptop, where most of the LAU is stored, is down and I've been working from my...
This is not about the sciences of maniti, not exactly. What those are has been largely worked out, rather I want to look at how science functions in the...
Hmm, what intrigues me about this setting is that it seems to have its own unique direction, and at times it feels you are re-inventing the wheel. This I mean...
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:36:23 ... There's nothing wrong with going in a new direction -- just so long as you make sure you don't stray off the edge of the Earth....
Godwalkers The Godwalkers are certain individuals who are, basically, gods. Sightings are rare -- only about once a year across all of Known Space at the...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the LungfishAlpha group: The latest version of the LAU, you may have noticed, is called Beta. I was ...
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I'd like to welcome our newest member, Ben_Dinkin@... ... It is beneath the cloud occulted moon, That into our own souls we delve, For while we need...
... hi Mike, everyone Was just browsing thru LA today, and read your Godwalkers entry - wow! fantastic! I wish i had an imagination half as good! ok, enough...
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:14:11 ... Alan, I'm afraid you missed the point. I wasn't trying to "keep them from becoming too powerful". Rather, this paragraph was...
... them from becoming too powerful". Rather, this paragraph was the whole point of the Godcrawler concept. They're technology is as you say "clarketech",...
... currently taking place in my head the Epocalypse is a truly major event, and while I certainly see some details that require alteration I need to know if...
Am I the only one, or do other people on this list - when the read the word "maniti" - think of seven-foot tall space-faring praying mantises? sorry, don't...
Holmes groaned. "Watson, you're an idiot. Our roof has been stolen." On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:13:07 ... No, absolutely not. There's a certain point at which...
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:19:49 ... Actually, the story is a bit different. Originally they race was "humaniti", taken from traveller, but I finally settled on...
... It's an interesting and very real cosmic caveat, the whole, knowledge is power, but the possession of power certainly doesn't imply the possession of ...
... I did initially yes. ... Never a dull moment in the sexlife of a praying mantis. ... "humaniti", taken from traveller, but I finally settled on maniti...
... I did initially yes. ... Never a dull moment in the sexlife of a praying mantis. ... "humaniti", taken from traveller, but I finally settled on maniti...
... stops being soft and starts being vapory, and a "general reality shift" is so far past that line it doesn't even know the line exists. HEY! It just so...
Holmes groaned. "Watson, you're an idiot. Our roof has been stolen." On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:04:45 ... Clarketech refers to Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law of...
Rules For Submissions This is not a formal or a legal document, not exactly. But certain casual comments made on this list have made me reflect on the policy...
... approach ... breath ... true - and if I had to say which is the greater (in the sense of more original) setting I would say LAU I guess in my case I like...
I've been doing some megacity math, and made some modifications. This was inspired by reading a web page on Coruscant's population (from Star Wars). The...
