[TML] Low Berths

[Kelly St. Clair]

At 06:36 PM 8/2/2008, Robert O'Connor wrote:
>Using fast drug in the manner described in this thread and elsewhere is
>insane unless it prevents a number of problems, only one of which David
>Smart has hinted at.

I repeat my comment to someone else from earlier in this thread:

>The short version is that some old SF author thought it sounded cool, and 
>so did someone at GDW, without thinking very hard about the practical 
>consequences and implications.  This is true of a dismayingly large 
>portion of the OTU.

Fast Drug as described in the books (Traveller and the original novel) is 
more like a magic potion of slowed time than any real world 
pharmaceutical(s).  Same with the magical "meson" guns and all the other 
examples this list has discussed over the years.  The choice, as always, is 
whether to accept the magic at face value - It's Just a Game, after all - 
or to try to come up with something more reasonable.


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Kelly St. Clair
kellys at efn.org