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  • Re: An arcology that isn't going to be built...

    From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Tue Dec 9 14:48:28 2025
    On Sun, 16 Nov 2025 08:06:16 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig
    <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

    Quite a few technologies they would needed have not even been
    prototyped, and, according to reports, costs estimates jumped from
    5e11 dollar to 1.6e12 dollar to 4.5e12 dollar (compare a GNP
    per year of 1.1e12 dollar).

    Threefold cost increases have killed quite a number of projects....

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Tue Dec 9 14:51:46 2025
    On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:11:03 -0500, Cryptoengineer
    <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

    The future that Silverberg was portraying in his
    "The World Inside" was just totally different that the
    reality of our low middle income childbirth rates
    and our old "generations" ideas that it just does
    not compare.
    Big one, child bearing ages now are quite concerned
    with finances and time constraints.
    Silverbergs view in that book eliminated those and also
    had a special kick of religious duty.


    The book explicitly has people usually marrying at 12, and
    becoming parents by 14.

    Given we're talking science fiction you shouldn't assume that we're
    talking Earth years. Those numbers would be totally appropriate for
    settlers on Mars for instance.

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  • From Cryptoengineer@3:633/10 to All on Wed Dec 10 21:14:13 2025
    On 12/9/2025 5:51 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:11:03 -0500, Cryptoengineer
    <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

    The future that Silverberg was portraying in his
    "The World Inside" was just totally different that the
    reality of our low middle income childbirth rates
    and our old "generations" ideas that it just does
    not compare.
    Big one, child bearing ages now are quite concerned
    with finances and time constraints.
    Silverbergs view in that book eliminated those and also
    had a special kick of religious duty.


    The book explicitly has people usually marrying at 12, and
    becoming parents by 14.

    Given we're talking science fiction you shouldn't assume that we're
    talking Earth years. Those numbers would be totally appropriate for
    settlers on Mars for instance.

    The book is explicitly set on Earth.

    pt

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