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OK well what happens, as a number of us believe is true w/i the official TU, if, between TL10-TL15 no one was actually able to find a solution?
The answer to that is the difference between *your* TU & how a lot of the rest of us see the TU.

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On Sun, 2/14/16, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Instant city
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Sunday, February 14, 2016, 8:08 PM

 The civilian ships got
 insurance-enforced standards first.

 If there is enough money behind it, someone will find a
 solution sometime between TL10 & 15. ;

 Warships do not get insurance, but they affect bonds. They
 certainly affect budgets, and construction schedules, and
 operating commitments.
 And, if ships could disappear with no hope of even
 tracking never mind rescue, how many would join the
 service?!
 Greg
 On 15/02/2016 11:49
 AM, "Richard Aiken" <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at
 2:54 PM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 I do
 not accept the possibility of TL15 or even 11 of loosing
 spaceships, at least so completely, if only because no one
 would insure vessels.
 Insurance companies get out of
 paying off in most such situations through the use of that
 little phrase weasel phrase "act of war" in
 standard policy contracts. E.g. if one's ship is lost
 due to the results of a military decision (your side, their
 side, somebody else's side, it doesn't matter) the
 insurance doesn't pay out. Turning off or disabling an
 emergency transponder because it might put you in increased
 danger of detection by the enemy is such an "act of
 war." An insurance policy that *would* pay out for a
 loss resulting from such a decision would be a LOT more
 expensive, IF you could find someone to underwrite it at
 all. But that's not really a concern, since most
 governments are self-insured anyway.
 --
 Richard Aiken

 "Never insult anyone by accident." 
 Robert A. Heinlein"I studied the Koran a great
 deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there
 have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as
 Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville
 (1843)"We know a little about a lot
 of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean
 Winchester
 "It has been my experience
 that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger."
 Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey),
 to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons
 held by Knight's young children and
 wife.

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