Saturday, 27 November 2021

Back In The Solar System

While Nicholas van Rijn's Solar Spice & Liquors Company sells cinnamon, ginger, pepper, cloves, tea, whisky, gin and wines to extra-solar colonials, what happens in the Solar System?

A move to space has solved energy problems on Earth.

Terrestrial cities become Integrates.

An extra-solar species colonizes Mars.

Adzel from Woden learns the Terrestrial science of planetology and several human languages and converts to Buddhism.

Some chauvinists organize a Festival of Man.

Sixteen-year old Jim Ching has a car that he can fly above the ocean. He also wants to fly with Betty Riefenstahl to Baja, then to:

"...a restaurant featuring outsystem food."

Sounds OK. How much chance is there that our world will develop into something like that?
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4 comments:

  1. Sean M. Brooks27 November 2021 at 20:21

    Kaor, Paul!

    For at least some of these things there is at least a chance of them coming to exist. Such as using the energy to be found in space on Earth.

    Ad astra! Sean

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  2. S.M. Stirling27 November 2021 at 21:43

    I wouldn't call the people who organize the Festival of Man chauvinists, exactly. Keeping in touch with your ancestors is a good thing.

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  3. paulshackley2017@gmail.com27 November 2021 at 23:00

    I agree about respect for ancestors. But the propaganda for the Festival sounds xenophobic:

    "...the false glamour of ideas never born on man's true home..." (p. 180)

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  4. Sean M. Brooks28 November 2021 at 04:29

    Kaor, Paul!

    And I mostly agree with Stirling! I did not find that Festival of Man chauvinistic in any seriously bad sense.

    Ad astra! Sean

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