She said that "Most of my brothers and sisters are adults now." Even if we conservatively say she only meant 15 of the 30 are now adults, that's still an extreme ratio of parents to children, and doesn't alleviate the fundamental overpopulation issue. There would need to be some other mechanism to keep the population from becoming absurd.
For a species so afraid of leaving their planet, I think they should at least realize the unsustainability of that plan.
Shouldn't his aim also be to give M'gann a way to visit home whenever she wants even after he leaves the system?
I don't think so, the context was that they do not need to fit 30 around a table because most of them are adults who don't live with their parents rather than most of them being dead
It isn't a matter of not minding high population density, but rather that after X generations their planet will run out of space
Maybe Mars is bigger on the inside?
They could have a thousand more time more habitable space than earth and it wouldn't matter, if every generation is 10-15 time bigger than the last they'll eventually run out.
When ever they run out they expand it again. They might be making a whole pocket universe in there.
That's what the race wars are for.
Them dirty knife-nippled bastards.
I would say no, but considering some of the stuff you can do with magic...
You know, I should really get around to writing a section on that at some point.
No, he isn't. Sephtian can build Dolmen Gates -though not particularly fast- and they only really work as far as the moon. This came up a page or so ago.
You've got about thirty miles of basalt top to bottom around the whole planet, and that's only if you don't want to build on the surface at all. Or build floating habitat platforms. Which they can these days, they just chose not to. It's going to be a very long time before they have a serious problem.
Hate to admit it, but that genuinely never occurred to me.
Seemed like the most logical answer to me, we have families that large on Earth after all but they're not really the norm.
It's still perfectly clear. The speed of light isn't a special constant that applies to light in particular. It's a relationship between distances in space and durations of time that affects the shape of the universe. And being able to FTL or instant teleport means you can choose proper reference frames to do it in such that you arrive before you left and shake hands with your pre-trip self. Because once you do perform that transition, reality (ours at least) stops caring how you got there and lets you come back under normal physics. Hopefully this doesn't summon clockwork spiders.
What is the bare minimum of minds needed for Martians have a "comfort zone"? A dozen? A hundred?
I'd hope so. It would be odd for a planet to have less volume inside its crust than on its surface.
This is all true for our world. But for Earth 16 where FTL is relatively easy, it must be the case that information can propogate faster than light can. In this case, it's just the speed that light happens to travel at, not a fundamental limit to the speed that things can travel at.
Technically speaking nothing in Earth 16 actually travels faster then light, it just cheats by messing with space/time and alternate dimensions.
Zeta radiation? Lantern FTL? People on Velocity 9/10? The Flash's feet when running at light speed? I don't believe it's ever been stated in or out of story that this is the case.
Nothing has been mentioned about Zeta radiation, but Lantern FTL at least in this story allows anyone using it to pass through solid matter so it's probably either space warping or dimension skipping.
IIRC, OL's ring-based FTL involves transit through the Elemental Plane of Avarice, without technically moving through normal space at superluminal velocity. Dunno about the other ones, but to go back to this:
It's also worh noting that dolmen gates are not actually teleportation; they use sympathetic magic to cause both ends to occupy the same space. Presumably putting them on separate planets with different orbits would require a lot more magic to smooth over the relativity issues, but it's, you know, magic. So why not?
