Re: Juvenile fooleries (was Re: Neanderthal and PIE (Long!))

Selon Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>:

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> Any thoughts on the logistics of this kind of technological collapse
> population dispersal scenario?
>
In the case of my Dhastem, the loss of technology is due to the fact that it was
concentrated on the continents that were utterly destroyed, and both
civilisations had a life philosophy that prevented them from thinking up an
escape plan that would save their technology (that we know of, at least).

The few Dhastem colonies on other continents were light in technology (the
equivalent of an anthropologist or biologist camp in the Amazonian forest like
we have, with only the vital minimum), small, and populated with people who
couldn't maintain it well. The Dhastem prohibition to use their own writing
system except on their own continent ensured that most important books of
knowledge stayed on their continent, and were lost when it was destroyed.

All in all, I consider that quite a realistic scenario, especially considering
that I was something like 16 when I imagined it! :)
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Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets.

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