On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Traveller is compelling, fun, rich, and adaptable. That's why it's lasted so long. It was never meant to be put under an analytic microscope, so small wonder that it doesn't do well under such treatment. That being said, it's *also* fun to analyze; just don't confuse that with being "in" the universe (or really, one of the endless variants of that universe) as a player.
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I'm not so sure the "Real" universe would withstand strong scrutiny.

1) Mitochondrial Eve ? dozens of hominid species, and they can narrow
down all living humans to one ancestor?

2) Mammals all over the planet... including the oceans, where air
breathing and live birth are serious handicaps.

3) Takeover by H.Sap : All these other Hominids, and only one
survives? In spite of the others having multiple k-year head starts?

4) Technology super-growth : 90 to 200 kyears of stone age, followed
by a sudden surge that in less than 5 kyears takes them to computers,
space flight, nuclear power? Also, in reference to (3) above, none of
the other Hominids develop anything past Stone Age tech, despite
having multiple k-year head starts?

5) Superpower nations : not just the "known world conquest" like
Alexander of Macedonia and the Romans, but the US or USSR where they
can economically/politically/militarily control any smaller polity on
the planet, and often do.

I dunno, a lot of that just doesn't completely add up.
I saw someone write up a "review" of WWII as if it were a novel, and
they pointed out the places the author had unbelievable stuff.  Ah,
found it: http://squid314.livejournal.com/275614.html?page=1

Given things like that, I figure that the Traveller books we have are
just "incomplete" and "summary" for what actually happened/is
happening/will happen.