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| Skye Rocket | Jun 18 2011, 06:27 AM Post #21 |
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The two outer moons aren't tidally locked actually. They're way too far out for tidal breaking to have even slowed their rotation that much. The four inner ones are - they don't have a "dark side" (neither does Earth's rl moon), but the same side always faces Alterra. |
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| Arcadon | Jun 18 2011, 06:37 AM Post #22 |
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-Facepalm.- |
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| Demoness | Jun 18 2011, 03:20 PM Post #23 |
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Arc- All you ever do is facepalm. You never actually comment about what's going on and what we are supposedly doing wrong. Why even bother? At the risk of derailing, thanks to Transformers, "dark side of the moon" now refers to that stupid movie instead of anything good. |
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| Yasutomi | Jun 18 2011, 04:00 PM Post #24 |
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I'm tempted to give up my spot and relocate permanently to Luna...but somehow I don't think I'll be able to get away with that! Seriously, without meaning to sound preachy this is always going to be the problem with Post Modern Tech, because it's impossible to second-guess the future. The moment you start allowing technology that isn't in use today, you're into crystal ball territory and one you're there, it's very hard to know where to draw the line. When I was a little person, I had a wonderful book called The Usborne Book of the Future. One section in this book (published in 1979, I think) described the 2020 Olympic Games- on the moon. Because back in the 70s, people honestly believed that humans would be living full-time on the Moon by 2011...just as they believed that we would all be using hydrogen-propelled flying cars and our homes would be cleaned by robots! Now I mention this not to mock, but to illustrate just how hard it is to accurately guess what the future will bring...so my advice is to stop worrying about what is 'realistic' in a Post Modern Tech context (my guess is, we'll get most of it wrong anyway) and focus on what creates the most fun!
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| Demoness | Jun 18 2011, 04:48 PM Post #25 |
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That's because it's the way it should have been, but the bubble burst before we got that far. It's also rather unfortunate that 1984, written in 1948, did a better job of predicting the future (though to be fair, "1984" was chosen simply because it reversed the numerals in the year he completed the work). Comparing 2015 of Back to the Future is interesting as well because while some things came true (just not in the way expected), no one really could have guessed what leaps we would have taken in those thirty years. The space planes we have now should have been in use decades ago, but it took private companies to really develop them. It's just unfortunate that technology development is more driven by profit than creativity (as Chiana on Farscape once pointed out, we have many things that do the same thing instead of creating many things that do different things) and there really isn't much profit in space travel or colonization. But if Mars had a huge oil deposit, we'd be there and colonized in less than a decade. |
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| Arcadon | Jun 18 2011, 07:56 PM Post #26 |
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My face is in my palm a lot. I can't help it. It's a problem. It was mostly directed towards Emerald, no offense, and his gross miscalculation of the future. |
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| Demoness | Jun 18 2011, 08:10 PM Post #27 |
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Maybe you should get some surgery to correct that. :-p But seriously, a lot of what you say is ambiguous and on the internet, it's naturally taken as offensive. Because everyone on the net is a jerk. *points at any site that allows commenting* |
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| Leraq | Jun 18 2011, 08:43 PM Post #28 |
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Lol
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| Xosaia | Jun 18 2011, 09:03 PM Post #29 |
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This thread has become an ooc version of the AA... lol. |
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| Kolmestra | Jun 18 2011, 10:50 PM Post #30 |
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The Lyventian space program consists of pioneering twelve-year-olds with rockets propelled by shaken soda cans. We have high hopes of entering orbit in the next thirty years. |
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