Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time

From	Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject	Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time
Date	2012-09-12 11:16 -0400
Organization	University of Waterloo
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Xocyll  <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote:
>Actual asteroid belts that we have _seen_, IE in this system, are mostly
>empty.  Who knows what the situation will be in other systems.
>Especially Multiple Sun systems.

No, it would require too much mass to have a belt of the density you're
imagining.  The constant collisions would also soon reduce it to dust.
Short of a planet blowing up relatively recently you're not going to
find any place in the universe where asteroids routinely collide every
minute or so.

Now there's a good chance there will be the dense sort of asteroid belts
you want in this game, but like the faster-than-light travel that will
also likely be in the game, it'll be made up science fiction, not reality.

					Ross Ridge

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Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time noman <no_m_an@zzzyahoo.yycom> - 2012-09-10 17:45 -0700
  Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-10 21:15 -0400
    Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Andy Blanchard <andyb@localhost.localdomain> - 2012-09-11 23:43 +0100
  Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2012-09-10 21:30 -0400
  Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-09-11 12:11 -0400
    Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> - 2012-09-11 12:43 -0500
      Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-11 13:42 -0400
        Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> - 2012-09-11 20:38 -0500
          Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-09-12 10:29 -0400
            Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> - 2012-09-12 10:53 -0500
              Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-09-12 11:16 -0400
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> - 2012-09-13 07:10 -0500
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2012-09-13 09:08 -0400
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-09-13 10:57 -0400
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> - 2012-09-13 16:11 -0500
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-09-13 20:01 -0400
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> - 2012-09-14 01:06 -0500
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-09-14 11:06 -0400
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> - 2012-09-14 12:32 -0500
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time noman <no_m_an@zzzyahoo.yycom> - 2012-09-14 11:38 -0700
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-09-14 16:38 -0400
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> - 2012-09-15 09:56 -0500
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-09-14 15:00 -0400
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> - 2012-09-15 10:57 -0500
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-09-15 11:43 -0400
                Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2012-09-13 21:23 -0400
    Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time noman <no_m_an@zzzyahoo.yycom> - 2012-09-11 12:16 -0700
      Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2012-09-12 10:18 -0400
  Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Tim O <timo56REMOVE@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-12 05:20 -0400
  Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time noman <no_m_an@zzzyahoo.yycom> - 2012-10-04 12:48 -0700
    Re: Chris Roberts announcing a game in a month's time Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 16:24 -0400

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