Re: MH370, the thing that strikes me is the popular supposition that it is
2014 and everything39;s supposed to be easy and we have all these things
worked out so "Why is it taking so long?" Sure, apparently the Malaysians
are having a hard time getting their story straight, but it's still a big
world. It's good to be reminded every once in a while that things are hard
and you can't just turn to the hacker who hacks into the database in 10
seconds and finds chapter and verse on everything you need.
Re: Starships, in Traveller there must be a greater acceptance that things
go bye-bye. Between residual vectors, jumps, coming out of jump at not
quite the spot you planned, true mis-jumps, and all the gas giant
refueling there's lots of ways to go missing. And there are lots of ships
that went into J-space and never came out.
Didn't someone once write a "Flying Dutchman" sort of Traveller folk-tale?
What's the future-space-SF word for "folk tale?" Could be a cognate of
"sea story." "Tales of the spacelanes." "Old spacer's tales." "Scout
stories," maybe.
> Having been following the search for the missing jet for the past while I
> can't help but wonder just how daunting looking for a missing starship
> would be. Even if you knew the system it was in if it'd well and truly
> gone dark finding it would be ... Next to impossible.
>
> And if you'd misjumped and precip'd out somewhere in the outer solar
> system. Yuck... Makes you wonder how many ships have simple gone into
> the well and never been heard from again.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...
>
2014 and everything39;s supposed to be easy and we have all these things
worked out so "Why is it taking so long?" Sure, apparently the Malaysians
are having a hard time getting their story straight, but it's still a big
world. It's good to be reminded every once in a while that things are hard
and you can't just turn to the hacker who hacks into the database in 10
seconds and finds chapter and verse on everything you need.
Re: Starships, in Traveller there must be a greater acceptance that things
go bye-bye. Between residual vectors, jumps, coming out of jump at not
quite the spot you planned, true mis-jumps, and all the gas giant
refueling there's lots of ways to go missing. And there are lots of ships
that went into J-space and never came out.
Didn't someone once write a "Flying Dutchman" sort of Traveller folk-tale?
What's the future-space-SF word for "folk tale?" Could be a cognate of
"sea story." "Tales of the spacelanes." "Old spacer's tales." "Scout
stories," maybe.
> Having been following the search for the missing jet for the past while I
> can't help but wonder just how daunting looking for a missing starship
> would be. Even if you knew the system it was in if it'd well and truly
> gone dark finding it would be ... Next to impossible.
>
> And if you'd misjumped and precip'd out somewhere in the outer solar
> system. Yuck... Makes you wonder how many ships have simple gone into
> the well and never been heard from again.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...
>