Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

At 3:11 PM -0600 1/28/02, Scott Clinton wrote:
>
>In SG2 we have:
>50-100 ton tanks that can hover...
>rail/gauss weapons in sizes from < 10kg to multi ton sized...
>power armor ...
>fusion power...
>...and lets not forget faster than light travel...
>
>But, you can't buy into a more reliable, robust and slightly more 
>portable version of a weapon that basically can be produced today???

It would depend on the level of technology on the colony would it 
not? I could take a Macintosh and a digital camera to Borneo and live 
there for 5 years. But, I would question whether it would be running 
after 5 years in the jungle.

One has to realize that depending on the size of the colony, you have 
a great limit on what industry is available on that site. Look at the 
number of businesses involved in making a car. Just a simple car. 
Those major parts source from more than 500 factories all over this 
continent. Smaller components probably source from further afield.

Granted some things would be easy to fix if there are available 
parts. There's the other issue. Parts. If it takes half a year to get 
a shipment of parts in from the major systems, you are going to want 
to limit what is purchased from off world in deference to what is 
made on world.

Think about the large amount of commerce that goes on in the US or UK 
every day. Parts, raw materials, sub components, whole finished 
products. The web is really really complex. If your lag time between 
shipments of components is very long then you are going to have huge 
issues with assembly time.

I'm not disagreeing, just posing problems ...

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