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Traveller-digest           Thursday, 11 July 1996       Volume 1996 : Number 235

(R)1996. Traveller is a registered trademark of FarFuture Enterprises.
All rights reserved.

The following topics are covered in this digest:

         1. QSD Spreadsheet
         2. RE:corn dogs
         3. Communications and Collapsing Empires
         4. Re: The Energy Standard, was: The Iridium Standard

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From: Jo Grant/DUB/Lotus <Jo_Grant/DUB/Lotus.LOTUSINT@crd.lotus.com>
Date: 11 Jul 96  9:53:31 EDT
Subject: QSD Spreadsheet

Yo Folkes,
  Due to popular demand (and I'm getting tired of UUENCODE)
I've uploaded my QSD spreadsheet to a public ftp site.
    ftp://ftp.maths.tcd.ie/pub/jaymin/trav/qsd.WK1
    ftp://ftp.maths.tcd.ie/pub/jaymin/trav/qsd.WK4

The WK1 is for all of you with spreadsheets that only support
the ancient 1-2-3 format. Those who support the latest 1-2-3
format can get the proper sheet by looking at the WK4 file.
  I'd like someone else to proof it. Seems OK to me.

Notes:
  I don't do incremental crew. The logic is that the ship should
be designed for a normal crew. During normal operations you may
put less on, but it is designed for full capacity.
  I only support the basic hulls. The WK4 has the huge-list-of-hulls
table in it but it isn't linked in (yet).
  The trade analysis stats convert the currency to TL15 imperial
"norm".

Additional:
  I've encoded this spreadsheet as a generic C++ class. Once I'm
sure that works I'll make it public to anyone who wants to write
a UI around it for an operating system of their choice...

      Cheers,
          Jo

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From: ROWAN Iain <wm0iro@acresearch.sunderland.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 10:10:00 PDT
Subject: RE:corn dogs

Joe Walsh <ransom@connect.iconnect.net> wrote

>No kidding!  I did the same thing (though, sadly, we don't have Der
>Weinerschnitzel's where I live now)! :)  All that talk of corn dogs made
>me hunt up a place that sells them and have a few for dinner. :)

What, you eat them?  Ahh, it's all clear now.  I thought from the
original description of what was in them that they were some
kind of weapon designed using that chapter of FF&S that I
never read.  I thought that it was a bit strange because I'm
sure that the Imperial Rules of War would have had something
to say about it.  Star Trigger?  You don't frighten us, pal.  We've
got corn dogs.

Iain
iain.rowan@sunderland.ac.uk

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From: Les Howie <lhowie@novalis.ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 07:55:16 -0300
Subject: Communications and Collapsing Empires

At 04:26 AM 7/11/96 -0400, John Kovalic wrote:

>
>The British Empire, of course. The loss of the North American colonies is,
>in Britain, in *part* explained by the huge communications delay (four
>weeks at best, I believe, but that's only from vague memories of "AO" level
>History, courtesy of Millfield School, Street, Sommerset).

I've always wondered what British schools taught about that little upset.
>From what I have have read about the quality of British administration at
the time, shorter time lags may just have made the problem worse (and my
family was Loyalist, so that's not my favourite admission to make).

>
>Better yet is the battle of New Orleans, fought by the Britsih Empire
>*after* the peace was agreed upon, simply because word hadn't arrived yet.
>

Remembering that that was a different war.

I've seen the point made that the telegraph is what KILLED the Empire.
Imagine if Clive had had to cable for permission before he conquered
India... "LAST MESSAGE GARBLED STOP AWAIT INSTRUCTIONS STOP STOP STOP"

"A British subject I was born..." 



Les Howie
Senior Software Developer
NovaLIS Technologies
Halifax NS
lhowie@novalis.ca


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From: anders.backman@macademic.se (Anders Backman)
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:21:21 +0200
Subject: Re: The Energy Standard, was: The Iridium Standard

>I think widespread anti-matter powerplants
>may have caused problems.

Antimatter p-plants consume antimatter which presumably has to be
manufactured in a fusion plant. Antimatter is simply a way to pack more
energy into fuel for vehicles et c.

/Backman



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