On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:51 PM, <> wrote:
>
>
> Yikes! Math!
>
Only a little bit.....
>
> Off the top of my pointy little head I would say the theory is a little on
> the tautological side, and to pull it over into Traveller you have to
> accept that with the interstellar maps "topography" is the primary effect
> which is abstracted out by the theory. In that way Traveller is more along
> the lines of why many settlements in the US developed along the eastern
> seaboard fall-line, how ports and other transshipment points develop, etc.
>
Topography always trumps theory, or the very 1st thing they teach you when
you get to cartography portion of a Degree in Geography is "All maps are
lies...." In that they are rough representation of what is there, and Star
maps in Traveller are the greatest thing yet in that they are cognitive
maps for starships.
--
Evyn
>
>
> Yikes! Math!
>
Only a little bit.....
>
> Off the top of my pointy little head I would say the theory is a little on
> the tautological side, and to pull it over into Traveller you have to
> accept that with the interstellar maps "topography" is the primary effect
> which is abstracted out by the theory. In that way Traveller is more along
> the lines of why many settlements in the US developed along the eastern
> seaboard fall-line, how ports and other transshipment points develop, etc.
>
Topography always trumps theory, or the very 1st thing they teach you when
you get to cartography portion of a Degree in Geography is "All maps are
lies...." In that they are rough representation of what is there, and Star
maps in Traveller are the greatest thing yet in that they are cognitive
maps for starships.
--
Evyn