[TML] lifeboats

[Kirk Bailey]

Jerry W Barrington wrote:
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> 
> Only Annual maintenance?  Hardly!  In order to be "pull a lever -> launch",
> that fusion plant must be constantly running. 
NO, but a small computer and battery bank must be online. MAINS from the 
ship keep them in a charged state.
  That will take the same
> maintenance as the main plant of the ship, only distributed all over the
> ship in every lifeboat.  And constant refueling along with the main tanks.
> 
The lifeboat IS one of the reserve tanks. when it leaves, it takes some 
tankage with it.
> And the passengers have to have unsupervised access to these things, in case
> no crew is unable to help them.  So how are you going to make sure the
> passengers' little kids don't activate them?
1. big red switch is 6 foot off the floor.
2. it takes a 40 pound pull to activate.

3. stupid people's unsupervised children DESERVE to die in space.
    IF you want your genetic material to survive to reproduce, watch over it.

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