Accurate Portrayal Of Frontier Planets
POSTED BY: DakotaSmith
UPDATED: Thursday, June 10, 2004 13:04
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To me, it all comes down to something Robert Heinlein said in "Farmer in the Sky", one of the best novels ever written on the subject of colonizing a terraformed world:
"Horses can make baby horses, which is a trick tractors haven't picked up yet."
This is a quasi-quote, as I don't have the book handy, but the spirit is accurate.
"You can't enslave a free man. The most you can do is kill him." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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My father-in-law just watched the show for the first time, and had a really hard time during Serenity accepting the scifi-western concept. He's quite the sci-fi fan, and perhaps that's the problem. Anyway, there ARE people who can't get over it, even when they watch it in the RIGHT order (i.e., DVD's). Sigh...
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On the trains issue, I think the trains would be more efficent for connecting a string of mining towns alongside a mountain range and a military base inside one of the mountains. Of course, I'm no expert. The other people on the planet wouldn't be connected. But even if it wasn't the most efficent way to do things, this is the Alliance we're talking about. They're probably not the most efficent people.
PS: It feels weird responding to posts a year and a half old. 
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double post, sorry.
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who thinks it arrogant as hell that one of the least prevalent of world cultures in the last thousand years (19th century west continental America) be the one that all future 'frontier folk' should choose to emulate!.
You'd think there'd be more Hispanic or African people, what with their massive space programs
Again, sorry for the double-response to ancient posts, but I thought it'd be nice to bump this insightful board to the top.
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