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On Wed, 2/24/16, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Trawling for 'ice'?
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 7:01 AM

 > On
 Feb 23, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net>
 wrote:
 >
 > On Wed,
 Feb 24, 2016 at 06:57:45AM +1100, Greg Chalik wrote:
 >> Assuming 0 ice processing in space
 capability at TL10 before the invention
 >> of Jump and in the immediate aftermach
 (for a couple of centuries?
 >
 > I suppose it could work, but it seems
 unlikely.  In Traveller's tech
 >
 timeline, early grav tech at TL9 already drastically brings
 down cost
 > of access to space with the
 consequent explosion in space
 >
 applications.  One of the early commercial applications may
 well be
 > mining rare elements from
 metal-rich asteroids -- or at least,
 >
 developing the technology required to do so.

 How else are you supposed to
 “find” the “crashed alien ship" with the mostly
 intact Jump Drive that Gramps carefully seeded this neck of
 the galactic woods with?

 I
 still maintain the only difference between 'Major'
 and ‘Minor’ races is that the ‘Major’ ones were
 merely much more successful at hiding the fact that they
 didn’t invent Jump Drive either, but found an example and
 reverse-engineered it :-)

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