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It doesn't make it post-scarcity necessarily, but it could depending on whether you assume 1) this can be done without labour, in processing or obtaining the materials 2) that the materials are easily and cheaply available in every star system 3) the processed output is equally palatable...

to understand this, you need to look to economic historians and the division of labour. Our present technology would not be possible without a large population, and an extremely high level of specialization. Socio-economic change has accelerated. It has been accelerating since the discovery...

I don't believe that homo erectus was engaging in genetic engineering. When archeologists call them "advanced tool users" I don't think this is what they meant. And there are easier ways to get across the ocean than by (riding?) goats. Or were you writing on your phone? Damn that autocorrect...

Not everyone knows to go on Google Scholar, so my response was also genuine.

I did actually link a video, above. Here is a book only part of which is open access, but it gives lots of examples and a sense of where the research is at. (You do know, if you want to, you can just put a search into google scholar and you will a list of the research on any given topic? That...

Chimpanezes clearly have a sense of justice, in many respects, but for example, they become angered over unequal treatment; see this video of an experiment on it: Chimp justice experiment Lots of higher intelligence animals seem to have moral codes, according to researchers. These are mostly...

True, but there are a lot of inhabited planets in Traveller that have dense atmospheres. Once those giant spiders figure out how to build space ships, there will be lots of places for them to go, where they can find delicious humans to eat. With the WBH you should be able to calculate pretty...

IMHO, the WBH plus coolAlias' WBH star system autogenerator are the best Referee tools ever for Traveller. Now when players annoyingly decide to jump to an unexpected star system, you can have that whole star system generated at the press of a button. It takes little longer than that to really...

Dense atmosphere and/ higher oxygen content allows them to be much bigger, as on Earth in the Carboniferous period. Not quite as big as Them but enough to be very creepy indeed. With ants or bees, even if smaller you can do a hive mind thing. Even small bugs could have their intelligence...

Giant space hamsters make good pets, but are expensive to feed.

True. If you find one, you better damn well have a place to put it,

Children of Time by Adrian Tschiakovksy has uplifted Portia labiata jumping spiders. Uplifted by accident. Whoops. Also a variety of other bugs. Why isn't anybody uplifting spiders? Wasps? Or army ants? Those would be good to have.

Any fool's around? Anyone? Besides me I mean. If you mean Robert Pearce's starship geomorphs, those are an awesome resource. I highly recommend using them. I've used them lots of times, for space stations. But they are hard to match up with what is needed for DNR. I could use them and...

Usable deckplans for big ships are BIG. Probably each big ship effectively needs its own book, which really limits the number of ships you can do this way. On the other hand, doing this gives Referees a reason to buy lots of books, since then you get to have lots of ship deckplans. The DNR...

I definitely feel USABLE deckplans should be a top priority. I'm running the DNR campaign and even with 9 books in written on the campaign, the DNR's deck plans are not fit for purpose - not to play out a tactical combat on, nor even really move character tokens around on very well. There's...