tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669776494971280696.post4676184476390771198..comments2023-07-29T11:25:16.066-07:00Comments on Irish Monarchist: Future monarchy, population control and a place in the sunServant of the Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018786429076784275noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669776494971280696.post-22886407824631527072011-10-10T05:40:43.056-07:002011-10-10T05:40:43.056-07:00That'd be Honor Harrington for you.That'd be Honor Harrington for you.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04292323514232749459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669776494971280696.post-43575510925882410902011-10-10T04:54:07.860-07:002011-10-10T04:54:07.860-07:00Weber is good. Horatio Hornblower in space, in lar...Weber is good. Horatio Hornblower in space, in large part.Professor Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00659779116600213901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669776494971280696.post-58896731509446032602011-10-09T20:44:01.093-07:002011-10-09T20:44:01.093-07:00Servent of the Cheif, you are obviously reading th...Servent of the Cheif, you are obviously reading the wrong science fiction. The stuff I read usually conveniently kills off the Liberals, Socialists, Jihadis, and other undesirables, using their own stupidity against them. Try David Weber, John Ringo, and David Drake for starters.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04292323514232749459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669776494971280696.post-75219279492254750862011-10-07T01:45:35.453-07:002011-10-07T01:45:35.453-07:00Trust Pratchett to touch upon that little piece of...Trust Pratchett to touch upon that little piece of lulz. I really must get back to reading discworld. Thanks for that Wells.<br /><br />And A.Nicot, I understand your cynical view of humanity in your examples even if I myself dont have the exact same view. The warhammer 40k example is pretty apt at how a monarchical human space empire could play out. (although, God willing, with significantly less grimdarkness)Servant of the Chiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17018786429076784275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669776494971280696.post-63104616484038894712011-10-06T23:14:09.857-07:002011-10-06T23:14:09.857-07:00Servant, I just remembered this quote from Pratche...Servant, I just remembered this quote from Pratchett:<br /><br /><i>The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir *instantaneously*. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.</i><br /><br />Hmmm... may be on to something here, though I don't think the signalling part would work.Professor Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00659779116600213901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669776494971280696.post-24808813339908477792011-10-05T16:06:12.580-07:002011-10-05T16:06:12.580-07:00The place in the sun as indeed been chosen for the...The place in the sun as indeed been chosen for the building of New Jerusalem. The plans have been divinely given. The holy city of enlightenment that prophet Isaiah spoke of will come to be. It is to be ecological and self-sustainable, off the grid. A healing city with rescue teams as well. It is to defend the eco system of the planet. Many Europeans have already left and gone in the right direction. Until this is over. <br /><br />The biblical prophecies state that the LORD God will save Judea and the tribes of Joseph. The tribes in my heart are the indigenous peoples. <br /><br />Love beyond measure to Ireland, please tell your people that none of the Islands are safe and that includes England. I have been given 'Ice Caps 22' so the people do have time to move. However, it takes a least five years for a community to be completely self-sustainable. <br /><br />Living ecologically and self-sustainably now is essential. Humanity simply do not have a choice in the matter. <br /><br />ELIAKIMEliakimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13759734387674692355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669776494971280696.post-40998287198534393832011-10-04T20:12:18.313-07:002011-10-04T20:12:18.313-07:00I envision two futures for mankind's dominion ...I envision two futures for mankind's dominion in space:<br />The Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40,000 (it could be good or bad, I guess). Centralized, bureaucratic, inefficient, wrought by war and misery.<br />Locust Civilization. We go from planet to planet, living on them for a number of centuries or millennia, in an ever expanding fleet that fans out to occupy several worlds at a time, draining them of resources and moving on.<br />That's how I see it anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com