> -----Original Message----- > From: On Behalf Of Laurie Menke > Sent: 21 February 2006 00:55 > To: Chrononauts > Subject: Re: [Chrononauts] Chrononauts 2000 > > > Nice job with the graphics! And I believe you are > dead-on accurate in your choice of linchpins for this > decade or two. Good job! I'll second/third/fourth/nth this. I was thoroughly impressed, and I'm tempted to print them out and add them to the game if you're happy with that? > Questions: > > 2. How would I read "? Prime-prime? I'd say "double prime" myself. > 3. Why does Man Walks on Mars depend on the World Oil > Supply being Exhausted? Is it that they are searching > on Mars for an alternate fuel supply? Aha, note that it's the Europeans who do the trip, and in Europe there's a lot of fusion research happening. Series like Peter F. Hamilton's "Night's Dawn" trilogy mention spaceships with "fusion" drives, but I'm still not exactly sure how they're supposed to work. I wondered if it was something to do with work being done on ion-drive propulsion. Then I realised that you still need a buttload of reaction mass to get out of Earth's gravity well, and an ion-drive is a bit slow for humans over shorter distances like in-system travel. Anyway, congratulations again! Matt