Re: [TML] The Lunion Project, resend Phil Pugliese (09 Jan 2017 20:32 UTC)
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Re: [TML] The Lunion Project, resend
Bruce Johnson
(09 Jan 2017 22:32 UTC)
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Re: [TML] The Lunion Project, resend
shadow@xxxxxx
(11 Jan 2017 18:41 UTC)
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Re: [TML] The Lunion Project, resend Phil Pugliese 09 Jan 2017 20:24 UTC
All in all, I could see less diversity/more uniformity in the worlds of the interior, like Core Sector, as they'd've been part of the 3I since 'forever' and the region was very, very stable. Even out on the SolRim I think there'd be, in general but w/ the exception of the Vega Autonomous Region, a high degree of uniformity. It's the border areas along the Vargr Extents or distant, semi-isolated regions like the 'Marches where I'd expect to find more variability. Speaking of random number generators, the first mainframe I learned BASIC on defaulted, purportedly for testing/debugging purposes, to a fixed list of random numbers unless an override cmd, RANDOMIZE, was inserted at the beginning of the program! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 1/9/17, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] The Lunion Project, resend To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> Date: Monday, January 9, 2017, 11:31 AM > On Jan 9, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote: > > But starting from the very beginning there always were 'weird' systems that made me think, "Huh, wonder how that system came to be that way?” There’s an article on system generation in “Challenge” where (iirc) Dave Nilsen described most of the systems in the First and Second Surveys as ‘generated by a computer with its random number generator stuck in a groove’ or something like that. The data bears this out, there’s an amazing lack of variability in the official 3I, except for the Spinward Marches which was heavily hand-edited. There’s been a lot of handwavium alloy welded on to these systems over the years to explain away the weirder ones.. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs ----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=EwREIRgLK8vaUEhNlnoNdSGKwnjoID8a