[TML] Low Berths

[Knapp]

> Douglas E Knapp wrote:
>> Many on these problems are not problem depending on what is meant by
>> "slower metabolism"
>
> Decreased metabolic rate. What else would it mean?
>

Just to sidestep lots of middle ground, we all know that warp/jump is
time travel.
Lets say you make a nano-drug that fills the person with warp nodes of
 a very small sort. When turned on they warp time around the person
and thus slow down everything in the person for 60 days. This is
slowing down the metabolism without having any of the meanings that
you are giving it. I am not in any way trying to say this is what
Traveller meant but more that we need an open mind to try and see what
medicine will look like 200 years from now or more.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and
discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one -
the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
    Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is
possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something
is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
    Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond
them into the impossible.
    Arthur C. Clarke, "Technology and the Future" (Clarke's second law)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
    Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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