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On Thu, 6/25/15, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Starship Berthing Philosophies?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Thursday, June 25, 2015, 1:08 AM

 On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at
 11:30:32PM -0700, xxxxxx@shadowgard.com
 wrote:
 > The failure to consider
 management of "waste heat" is the least
 > realistic aspect of pretty much every SF
 RPG and story I've ever
 >
 encountered.

 ... surely
 that rates as less unrealistic than telekinesis,
 interstellar warp, reactionless thrusters,
 independent evolved aliens
 virtually
 indistinguishable from human, time travel paradoxes, and
 dozens or hundreds of other SF features?

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Yeah, I agree, & esp wrt the psi powers.

The first time I read about that I thought, "Geez, they just *had* to have a way to get 'magic-users' into the game".

And then, 'Presto!', the Zhodani appear...

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