[TML] Noncanonical TU 3D.

[Thad Coons]

On 1/4/08, Timothy Little <tim at little-possums.net> wrote:
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> Though it should be possible to find a large cometary body in deep
> space from which to refuel.  There should be billions out there, and
> by then sensors should be good enough to find one.  Even if you have
> to detonate a huge nuclear flashbulb in the middle of deep space and
> keep your sensors peeled for echoes, you only need to succeed once.


There's also a navigational problem involved. As I have it, without a
star-sized gravity well to anchor both ends of a jump, there is a
large uncertainty in the exit point. Actually finding a large cometary
body in deep space is one problem: Guaranteeing that you can jump
to within a few hundred AU of it is another. Also, at this primitve state
of jump technology and colonization, the  techiques for mining or
collection and adequate purification of fuel under wilderness
conditions are far from well-knownand tested. At this point, it's
considered too risky.