[TML] Noncanonical TU 3D.

[Timothy Little]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:00:39PM -0500, Thad Coons wrote:
> The third was a combination of jumpsickness and life support
> failure.

In a society with more than 200 years experience with space
exploration, and at least 100 years of permanent space habitation?
That is indeed very bad luck, on top of some very good luck that some
did manage to survive.


> The fourth has always been a baffling mystery. "What really happened
> to the Arcodian?" is a favorite pastime of armchair historians.

That's the one that returned with tons of data making the mission a
complete scientific success, isn't it?  There were no recordings of
*anything* inside the ship itself?


On the whole the series of missions sound like some rich kid's high
school science project rather than actual science and exploration.
Given some major cultural and economic shifts I suppose they could
well have been exactly that :-)


It also sounds like none of them were due to not having enough fuel to
get back home, so it is somewhat puzzling why they would drive no ship
to ever venture more than one jump out for something like a century.


- Tim