The jump navigation paradigm reminded me of some thoughts I was having
while clearing snow for the past few hours, musing on the relationship
between lawn-mowing and snow-blowing technology. In response to someone's
(Evyn's?) post about boring (making holes in things) with
Tractor/Repulsor/Manipulator tech I remarked that there were probably lots
of applications of those tech breakthroughs that the game didn't touch on
that logically would appear throughout the game, given billions of
inquiring minds fiddling around with stuff to see what it would do. To me,
all of the incremental advances in Fusion plants, Jump drives, etc., are
all due to the overlapping incremental improvements in gravitics, nuclear
damping, etc., but since that's all handwavium it's difficult to say what
kind of pencil sharpener, snow blower, or dog walker that stuff would also
spin off along the way, but that stuff would be all over the place.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:27 PM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> wrote:
>
>
> The jump navigation paradigm reminded me of some thoughts I was having
> while clearing snow for the past few hours, musing on the relationship
> between lawn-mowing and snow-blowing technology. In response to someone's
> (Evyn's?) post about boring (making holes in things) with
> Tractor/Repulsor/Manipulator tech I remarked that there were probably lots
> of applications of those tech breakthroughs that the game didn't touch on
> that logically would appear throughout the game, given billions of
> inquiring minds fiddling around with stuff to see what it would do. To me,
> all of the incremental advances in Fusion plants, Jump drives, etc., are
> all due to the overlapping incremental improvements in gravitics, nuclear
> damping, etc., but since that's all handwavium it's difficult to say what
> kind of pencil sharpener, snow blower, or dog walker that stuff would also
> spin off along the way, but that stuff would be all over the place.
>
>
>
Dave the hole boring was all you, but the point was clear, it is all about
those little bits of tech and how they interact. I am all about the amusing
dead-ends that new technology or advancing technology engenders.
--
Evyn
That wasn't you who asked about T/R/M for boring technology? You can see
how ambitious I am to look back through the message traffic.
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:27 PM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The jump navigation paradigm reminded me of some thoughts I was having
>> while clearing snow for the past few hours, musing on the relationship
>> between lawn-mowing and snow-blowing technology. In response to
>> someone's
>> (Evyn's?) post about boring (making holes in things) with
>> Tractor/Repulsor/Manipulator tech I remarked that there were probably
>> lots
>> of applications of those tech breakthroughs that the game didn't touch
>> on
>> that logically would appear throughout the game, given billions of
>> inquiring minds fiddling around with stuff to see what it would do. To
>> me,
>> all of the incremental advances in Fusion plants, Jump drives, etc., are
>> all due to the overlapping incremental improvements in gravitics,
>> nuclear
>> damping, etc., but since that's all handwavium it's difficult to say
>> what
>> kind of pencil sharpener, snow blower, or dog walker that stuff would
>> also
>> spin off along the way, but that stuff would be all over the place.
>>
>>
>>
> Dave the hole boring was all you, but the point was clear, it is all about
> those little bits of tech and how they interact. I am all about the
> amusing
> dead-ends that new technology or advancing technology engenders.
> --
> Evyn
>
Is that the show where you started off with Marco Polo bringing Spaghetti back to Europe and ended up with with the Mars Rover because some how they were all connected?
Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPhone...
> On Mar 5, 2015, at 15:10, Harold Hale [Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:
>
> Time for some of you to (re-)watch "Connections". The original series with James Burke is still a favorite of mine.
>
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:47 PM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> wrote:
>
>
> "Dave the [w]hole boring was all you"
>
> Well, thanks a LOT! Har, har.
>
> That wasn't you who asked about T/R/M for boring technology? You can see
> how ambitious I am to look back through the message traffic.
>
Giggle.... I am in this for the humour.....
The original series was the superior one, IMHO, as it was pretty clear how the various technologies overlapped and helped to spawn the next. Connections 2 & 3 seemed to follow more of a random path through the technology tree as you suggest, but were nevertheless entertaining and thought provoking.