Oolite Bulletins

Ganelon wrote:

The AI doesn't get partially blinded by glare.

Maybe it should!

I am not sure that comparing ship sizes to a space shuttle or jet plane is really much use anyway. These are inter-stellar ships, not pokey little station-to-surface shuttles! You try flying a NASA space shuttle even over the sort of teeny tiny distances from Earth to the Moon and see how far you ge...

Just watched District 9 and noticed some (almost certainly cooincidental) corelations: Insectoid species often of similar exoskeliton colouration to those that Thargoids ships are decked out in. Big round ship. Maybe the mistreatment of the 'Prawns' at the hands of the human race back in the 21st ce...

Some fair points regarding assumptions about slavery attitudes in relation to government type. In the end, I am filing that under the same category as the relative sizes of space stations, planets and stars and the distances between them :D A thought I had recently was an extra attribute for planets...

I actually came across this thread with "free the slaves" in mind. But having read and read, I realised that - for me at least - the problem is largely one of assumptions. If I assume: Selling the slaves in a feudal or similar place, they are being sold into slavery. If I 'sell' them in a ...