Freefall: New Reactor Or New Ship ?
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3700/fc03631.htm
I just figured out that Freefall is very loosely set in Isaac Asimov's
Spacer Universe. You know, where there is 20,000 people on each of the >Spacer planets and a billion robots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
Interesting.
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
Moving populations between areas is incredibly expensive. It is best to
send a few and grow them there. Or in the case of the Spacers, have a
hard limit of 20,000 people per planet.
That was Solaria only.
Aurora, and all other worlds, had a much higher population.
In article <sff9lc$kqr$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
Freefall: New Reactor Or New Ship ?
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3700/fc03631.htm
I just figured out that Freefall is very loosely set in Isaac Asimov's
Spacer Universe. You know, where there is 20,000 people on each of the
Spacer planets and a billion robots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
Interesting.
The planet we've been visiting since the strip began, anyway: and
it's newly colonized. If (for instance) it had needed
terraforming, the robots would've been sent first and the humans
followed only when it was safe.
Moving populations between areas is incredibly expensive. It is best to
send a few and grow them there. Or in the case of the Spacers, have a
hard limit of 20,000 people per planet.
On 8/17/2021 1:57 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
Moving populations between areas is incredibly expensive. It is best to >>> send a few and grow them there. Or in the case of the Spacers, have a
hard limit of 20,000 people per planet.
That was Solaria only.
Aurora, and all other worlds, had a much higher population.
Ah, the Solarians probably felt that they were degenerates like Earth.
Freefall: New Reactor Or New Ship ?
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3700/fc03631.htm
I just figured out that Freefall is very loosely set in Isaac Asimov's
Spacer Universe. You know, where there is 20,000 people on each of the Spacer planets and a billion robots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
Interesting.
Lynn
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
On 8/17/2021 1:57 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
Moving populations between areas is incredibly expensive. It is best to >>>> send a few and grow them there. Or in the case of the Spacers, have a >>>> hard limit of 20,000 people per planet.
That was Solaria only.
Aurora, and all other worlds, had a much higher population.
Ah, the Solarians probably felt that they were degenerates like Earth.
Very much so. They pretty much lumped Earthers and Aurorans into
one bucket on that (but held Earthers in much lower regards still).
If you haven't read "Caves of Steel" and "The Naked Sun" yet, do so.
The second was Asimov taking an idea and extrapolating it until it
screamed for mercy, a lot like Niven later.
On 8/16/2021 9:15 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Freefall: New Reactor Or New Ship ?
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3700/fc03631.htm
I just figured out that Freefall is very loosely set in Isaac Asimov's
Spacer Universe. You know, where there is 20,000 people on each of
the Spacer planets and a billion robots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
Interesting.
Lynn
I highly doubt that it was intentional.
And I highly doubt that the cap on Planet Jean is meant to be
permanent--it's just that humans are incapable of reproducing as fast as inorganic AIs.
After all, the humans in *this* reality also intend to genetically
colonise left-handed worlds, rather than just sending robots there.
I'm more interested in what I said in one of my Discords on Monday--it
would very MUCH appear we have a winner in the "will Sam dehumanise
Florence or Florence, humanise Sam" contest.
On 8/17/2021 4:44 PM, Chrysi Cat wrote:
On 8/16/2021 9:15 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Freefall: New Reactor Or New Ship ?
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3700/fc03631.htm
I just figured out that Freefall is very loosely set in Isaac
Asimov's Spacer Universe. You know, where there is 20,000
people on each of the Spacer planets and a billion robots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
Interesting.
Lynn
I highly doubt that it was intentional.
And I highly doubt that the cap on Planet Jean is meant to be
permanent--it's just that humans are incapable of reproducing
as fast as inorganic AIs.
After all, the humans in *this* reality also intend to
genetically colonise left-handed worlds, rather than just
sending robots there.
I'm more interested in what I said in one of my Discords on
Monday--it would very MUCH appear we have a winner in the "will
Sam dehumanise Florence or Florence, humanise Sam" contest.
As Sam said that he is betraying his fellow squids now, it
appears that Florence is humanizing Sam.
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