Not that I have any real scientific knowledge on the topic, but I am
proficient with 'Google-Fu', and a quick hit came up with an interesting
statistic. Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the cosmos. That
being understood, it isn't a very far stretch to conceive of a little ball
of dirt with a deep enough gravity well to accumulate a healthy percentage
of it to go along with the nitrogen et al. add some hydrogen, mix and stir
and voila, water as H2O.
I don't mean to propose habitable worlds are the norm, only that if the
stars are in the right luminosity class, the elements to support life can
coalesce nicely in a planet in a stable orbit in the HZ. so while habitable
worlds may be superabundant in the Travellers Universe, the whole UWP issue
as I see it as a GM is not generally fixable, and should we really be
flaming it about anyways?
I'd love EDGs point of view, but as a prediction, he will grouse for a post
or two and then link us all to his own homebrewed UWP system which is based
on current astronomical theory. Of course, with newer and better info
coming in all the time, his homebrewed system will need the occasional
tweaking as will any "hard" SF system.
--
"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for
it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their
kids pay for it."
proficient with 'Google-Fu', and a quick hit came up with an interesting
statistic. Oxygen is the third most abundant element in the cosmos. That
being understood, it isn't a very far stretch to conceive of a little ball
of dirt with a deep enough gravity well to accumulate a healthy percentage
of it to go along with the nitrogen et al. add some hydrogen, mix and stir
and voila, water as H2O.
I don't mean to propose habitable worlds are the norm, only that if the
stars are in the right luminosity class, the elements to support life can
coalesce nicely in a planet in a stable orbit in the HZ. so while habitable
worlds may be superabundant in the Travellers Universe, the whole UWP issue
as I see it as a GM is not generally fixable, and should we really be
flaming it about anyways?
I'd love EDGs point of view, but as a prediction, he will grouse for a post
or two and then link us all to his own homebrewed UWP system which is based
on current astronomical theory. Of course, with newer and better info
coming in all the time, his homebrewed system will need the occasional
tweaking as will any "hard" SF system.
--
"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for
it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their
kids pay for it."