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    rinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.
    Overstated, though the Irish were the largest non-English group. Roughly, it was 70% English and Welsh, 24% Irish, 5% Scots and a...
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    Redefine the Credit as pegged to the work-hour. Or, to keep things SI, pegged to Joules.
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    rinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.
    Most likely. There are definite Cockney relicts, and others from 18th and 19th seafarers. Plus Irish, Cornish and Scotch. All melted...
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    Fair enough, but the mass of the stuff and what it actually costs you to get that is what you need. Although in many cases a default...
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    rinku replied to the thread Near Future Traveller.
    That's a good point, in that a rocket doesn't have to be a self-sustaining reaction. Certainly no existing ones are... The fusion or...
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    rinku reacted to Sigtrygg's post in the thread Near Future Traveller with Like Like.
    The reaction drive can be a fusion rocket without the fusion power plant yet being invented, the power plant is still fifty years...
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    rinku replied to the thread Near Future Traveller.
    It's just a titanium steel alloy. A real world thing mostly used for aircraft and other applications where strength and low weight are...
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    rinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.
    We had a similar thing here in Australia. Received Pronunciation was used by radio and television presenters well into the 1980's before...
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    rinku replied to the thread Enhanced Docking Clamps.
    Fair.
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    rinku reacted to Terry Mixon's post in the thread Enhanced Docking Clamps with Like Like.
    I posted this in the other thread, but here are the standard cargo container sizes. A 10-ton airlock would handle them all with space...
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    I'd leave credit values out of it almost totally. Just "X amount of input, X/n amount of output" for each stage. If you're on-selling at...
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    rinku replied to the thread Beltstrike.
    And there are reasons for that. But audio and video recordings, once common, TEND to anchor it a lot. Or at least for the accents...
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    rinku replied to the thread Enhanced Docking Clamps.
    Standardisation would seem to be the no-brainer to me too. Standard sizes of cargo bay hatches, that can mate with a same sized one for...
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    rinku replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    Yeah. If you have two hatches mated, they basically form a rudimentary airlock and you can depressurise the room on your ship to deal...
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    rinku replied to the thread Minor Races incl. Humans.
    It's unlikely that a truly comprehensive manifest could or should be done. Potentially the Ancients seeded some version of humans...
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