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On Fri, 8/25/17, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Landing vs hovering (wasRe: [TML] What class of Port isthis?)
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Friday, August 25, 2017, 12:23 PM

 On 8/25/2017 11:18 AM, C. Berry
 wrote:
 > The CG field is handwavium, so
 it requires as much power as the rules
 >
 say it requires. :) But there's no *physics* reason for
 it to require
 > any nonzero amount of
 power. Heck, it could emit power, and unicorns
 > that fart rainbows. The whole idea of CG
 has some very fundamental
 > problems in
 terms of real physics, so once you allow it in, you open the

 > door to anything.

 That way lies madness.  Seriously.
 Once you take logic and consistency off the
 table, you're not playing
 science
 fiction anymore, IMO.  Might as well strap swans or
 reindeer to
 your scout/courier and let them
 provide the motive power.  Or say, "My
 finger guns are disintegrator pistols."

 You don't have to specify
 /how/ it works, exactly.  But however it
 /does/ work, everything else has to work
 logically from that and
 interact with
 physics in predictable ways.  Otherwise it's magic, and

 not the Clarkian kind either.
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 Kelly St. Clair  xxxxxx@efn.org
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And that's why MegaTrav & the morphs that followed went so wrong when they all tried to provide ultra-complicated & ultra-detailed design rules & explanations. The only result was to create an endlessly complicated mess that just goes on & on & on.

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