Please be warned that this message is pretty much blatant egostroking. I haven't forgotten Lungfish Alpha, and I'm still getting ideas, but there hasn't been...
Here's another major historical milestone of the LAU, it just came to me and it fits in perfectly. Just a first draft, but it combines several concepts I'd...
Michael Scott Beck <emotecontrol@...> wrote: <<In the LAU maniti lives in countless millions of megacities, each of them independent from every other....
I'd be delighted if you crunched some numbers. But my general idea is that a buildworld contains ten thousand times the population of a normal world (not that...
60,000 trillion is sixty quadrillion, that number works out perfectly. ... It is beneath the cloud occulted moon, That into our own souls we delve, For while...
I've been doing a whole lot of thinking, and it seems to me that Lungfish Alpha is ready for a web presence. Would anyone on the list be willing to host the...
Michael Scott Beck <emotecontrol@...> wrote:I've been doing a whole lot of thinking, and it seems to me that Lungfish Alpha is ready for a web presence....
I actually use Lycos, but in any case I don't know html. ... whole lot of thinking, and it seems to me that Lungfish Alpha is ready for a web presence. Would...
This is more of a rumination than a serious post, but tell me what you think. I've never really liked how SF deals with aliens, but not for the conventional...
I decided to look over the LAU stuff since it had been a while since I read it. I noticed something well odd about the Breeding section. <<Breeding: The...
... since ... but ... detail ... confuses ... Maniti build the genetic information out of other genetic information, the same way scientists do in this world...
Michael Beck <emotecontrol@...> wrote: ... Oh something else about the above just hit me. It says it is cheaper to get to the edge of star system but km...
... system, and things worth traveling to are much harder to locate. As a result many groups and individuals have hidden themselves or their ... them again.<<...
Michael Beck <emotecontrol@...> wrote: <<The "explanation" for the mysteries of water is that sensors and communications break down when dealing with...
... communications break down when dealing with such a dense and fluid medium, and because moving through water should be a lot harder than ... of the ocean...
Michael Beck <emotecontrol@...> wrote: <<<What I mean is, why should we have reactionless drives and tractor beams. Not in the sense of why aren't they...
... tractor beams. Not in the sense of why aren't they possible, but I thought it over and they didn't add enough to the story to make them worthwhile. << ...
Michael Beck <emotecontrol@...> wrote: You're thinking in the SF manner, the way Lungfish Alpha tries to escape. The reason you can't get a reactionless...
... escape. The reason you can't get a reactionless drive or artificial gravity without rotation or a lot of other things in the year 30563 is the same reason...
... Lungfish Alpha is ready for a web presence. Would anyone on the list be willing to host the site? Hi Michael- It seems to me you already have an excellent...
... list ... direction. ... having ... to ... Thanks. The sourcebook is by no means up to date, it was done in the early days and formed the basis for...
I'd like to welcome jormagandr@... to the group. ... It is beneath the cloud occulted moon, That into our own souls we delve, For while we need light to...
Sorry for the long gap, I had to do some things and look for myself in all the right places. In any case, I'm back and I've been doing some thinking. The...
I'd like to welcome jimv@... to the group. ... It is beneath the cloud occulted moon, That into our own souls we delve, For while we need light to see...
... in all the right places. In any case, I'm back and I've been doing some thinking. The technology of the LAU is very advanced, but it's all physical and...
