Caveman 2 Cosmos

[Thunderbrd]

bad propaganda against nuklear plants in the real world

Mark my words... these things will destroy us someday. It's kinda like Jurassic Park... Murphy's law is simply too strong for this to be a good idea. The risk is too severe no matter how unlikely we can make it. Just my opinion. Won't matter what anyone's opinion is on the subject eventually. Certainly doesn't for those who were living in Chernobyl and anyone who would've lived there since then. Certainly has done plenty of damage to the Pacific. But wait... this isn't supposed to be possible because we learned after the Titanic and the Challenger that human endeavors can be made absolutely flawless. So I suppose its safe to eat Pacific cod anyhow.

IMO the propaganda is to get us to accept these constructs as a good idea. Much that should be discussed hasn't been.

 

[Snofru1]

BTW: In real life I am not a fan of nuclear power but in game I like it.

But back to topic: I wouldn´t mind meltdowns too much if I just got a clear message (a popup window!) that tells me about it. Now it is just a small message like "the population of ... has grown". I tend to overlook meltdowns for a number of turns and that is a bad thing.

 

[CainStar]

Sorry to be the "dumbass" to ask this, but is the new versio(v36) going public anytime soon? I mean it has been 6 months since last release. Just asking that's all......

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Sorry to be the "dumbass" to ask this, but is the new versio(v36) going public anytime soon? I mean it has been 6 months since last release. Just asking that's all......

We are all a bit busy with Real Life at the moment. I have a number of things I would like to tidy up before the release but I don't seem to be able to get the time at the moment.

 

[Faustmouse]

Mark my words... these things will destroy us someday. It's kinda like Jurassic Park... Murphy's law is simply too strong for this to be a good idea. The risk is too severe no matter how unlikely we can make it. Just my opinion. Won't matter what anyone's opinion is on the subject eventually. Certainly doesn't for those who were living in Chernobyl and anyone who would've lived there since then. Certainly has done plenty of damage to the Pacific. But wait... this isn't supposed to be possible because we learned after the Titanic and the Challenger that human endeavors can be made absolutely flawless. So I suppose its safe to eat Pacific cod anyhow.

IMO the propaganda is to get us to accept these constructs as a good idea. Much that should be discussed hasn't been.

I don't think this discussion belongs here. IMO, Coal-Powerplants (along other fossile fuels) caused and cause WAY more damage to humans and nature. The difference is, that the effects are often not as clearly visible as a nuclear catastrophe.

I don't know how to display meltdowns more clearly,sorry

 

[CainStar]

We are all a bit busy with Real Life at the moment. I have a number of things I would like to tidy up before the release but I don't seem to be able to get the time at the moment.

Ok thanks for the update, and keep up the good work. I really like your mod

 

[Sparth]

Two techs need quotes:
CLASSICAL LIFESTYLE
LUNAR BASES

Anyone willing to help with finding proper quotes for these techs?

 

[Noriad2]

Two techs need quotes:
CLASSICAL LIFESTYLE
LUNAR BASES

Anyone willing to help with finding proper quotes for these techs?

Jules Vernes' book From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jules_Verne

"In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle which it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!"

 

[Noriad2]

Two techs need quotes:
CLASSICAL LIFESTYLE
LUNAR BASES

Anyone willing to help with finding proper quotes for these techs?

“soft lands breed soft people, hard lands breed durable and warlike people” Herodotus

“He advises them that tough lands produce tough peoples, so, if they wish to retain the empire he has enabled them so spectacularly to gain, they must not even think about removing themselves to some softer, enervating environment.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

EDIT: the last seems to be not a quote but an explanation of Herodotus 9.122:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=9:chapter=122

This Artayctes who was crucified was the grandson of that Artembares1 who instructed the Persians in a design which they took from him and laid before Cyrus; this was its purport: [2] “Seeing that Zeus grants lordship to the Persian people, and to you, Cyrus, among them, let us, after reducing Astyages, depart from the little and rugged land which we possess and occupy one that is better. There are many such lands on our borders, and many further distant. If we take one of these, we will all have more reasons for renown. It is only reasonable that a ruling people should act in this way, for when will we have a better opportunity than now, when we are lords of so many men and of all Asia?” [3] Cyrus heard them, and found nothing to marvel at in their design; “Go ahead and do this,” he said; “but if you do so, be prepared no longer to be rulers but rather subjects. Soft lands breed soft men; wondrous fruits of the earth and valiant warriors grow not from the same soil.” [4] The Persians now realized that Cyrus reasoned better than they, and they departed, choosing rather to be rulers on a barren mountain side than dwelling in tilled valleys to be slaves to others.

 

[Snofru1]

Jules Vernes' book From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jules_Verne

"In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle which it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!"

And if you think this is too long, then you can still start from "we shall one day travel to the moon...".

 

[Sparth]

And if you think this is too long, then you can still start from "we shall one day travel to the moon...".

My voic software better change text-to-speach with shorter sentences. Dunno why but with longer texts "he" goin crazy hehe

 

[Arakhor]

The shorter version would make a fine quote.

 

[Yudishtira]

And if you think this is too long, then you can still start from "we shall one day travel to the moon...".

I suggest:
"...we shall one day travel to the moon...with the same facility...as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!"

 

[Noriad2]

My voic software better change text-to-speach with shorter sentences. Dunno why but with longer texts "he" goin crazy hehe

Isn't it possible to process single sentences and then string the MP3's together (one after the other)?

 

[Sparth]

Isn't it possible to process single sentences and then string the MP3's together (one after the other)?

Yes, its possible.

 

[Noriad2]

Yes, its possible.

Reason was, I'd hate it if a good quote was cut up or even rejected because the speech software couldn't handle it. In my (admittedy impolite, apologies) opinion, I'd prefer an imperfect human voice narrating a good quote over a "perfect" synthetic voice narrating a butchered quote.

 

[HorseshoeHermit]

I think perhaps Lunar Bases could get a quote from something more like a fairy tale, creation myth, or religious text. The story of Kaguya-hime doesn't seem to have a good passage for it, but the Magical Land of Noom might have something enchanting.

There are good speech synthesizers .. really good ones. They cost money.

 

[Noriad2]

I think perhaps Lunar Bases could get a quote from something more like a fairy tale, creation myth, or religious text. The story of Kaguya-hime doesn't seem to have a good passage for it, but the Magical Land of Noom might have something enchanting.

True - over the past millenia, the Moon has had various religious, occult, symbolic and mystical meanings. However I think that by the time people actually start living on the moon, they'd just consider it a big boring lump of rock that happens to be in orbit around the Earth.

 

[strategyonly]

However I think that by the time people actually start living on the moon, they'd just consider it a big boring lump of rock that happens to be in orbit around the Earth.

No so fast now, the US Government(or was it the UN, I forget) has APPROVED realtors and anyone else, to BUY "Moon Property" and when people do want to more there WHEN its possible they have their property already set for them, now building it, is another problem story, lol . . .

 

[Arakhor]

I was under the impression that international law states that no single nation can own any extra-terrestrial part of the Solar System.