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james_davis_nicollIt would account for between a sixth and a quarter of the human population of the Milky Way and something like one in thirty of stars of the Milky Way, if I have not bolloxed up this quick back of the envelope calculation.
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Date: 2012-10-07 05:02 am (UTC)I wonder if someone in the Star Wars galaxy is writing an encyclopedia?
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Date: 2012-10-08 03:18 pm (UTC)That speaks to me more of impeeded communications (person-to-person rather than mass) than illiteracy. Even literate cultures create and spread urban legends - as anyone who reads the 'net for more than an hour should know.
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Date: 2012-10-07 05:07 am (UTC)James and I read some of the same blogs.
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Date: 2012-10-07 04:22 pm (UTC)they did
Date: 2015-10-08 10:05 pm (UTC)Re: they did
Date: 2015-10-08 10:29 pm (UTC)Re: they did
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Date: 2012-10-07 04:22 pm (UTC)Count of Emperors
Date: 2015-10-28 11:38 am (UTC)Onum Barr in Big and Small tells that Empire had had precisely 9 Emperors in 50 years.
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Date: 2012-10-07 04:54 am (UTC)Bruce
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Date: 2012-10-07 05:06 am (UTC)(You know, the fifth century does not seem to have been a great time for grand empires)
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Date: 2012-10-07 05:11 am (UTC)this probably did not help.
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Date: 2012-10-07 05:36 am (UTC)China is experiencing dynastic succession, political chaos and warfare, but technological progress and settlement south of the Yangtze River.
Weird: just as Rome was increasingly overrun with Christians, China had Buddhists popping up increasingly frequently after the first century.
The Guptas start the 5th century well but end badly as they collapse in the face of the Hephthalites.
Persia: starts in a not a golden but not a horrible age and then has Hephthalite issues.
Kadamba: Not a totally horrible period for them. They very sensibly did something Persia and the Guptas failed to do, which was to have someone between them and Central Asia.
Anyone else in the Old World qualify for Great Power status at this time? Nomads don't count.
The New World civilizations (which I guess in this case would be represented by the LMC and the SMC) hit road bumps later on.
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Date: 2012-10-07 04:07 pm (UTC)Anyone have a better map?
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Date: 2012-10-07 02:47 pm (UTC)This is because lead is the end element of the S-process, and very metal-poor stars have fewer seed nuclei for the neutrons to be captured on, so each gets more neutrons, and more go all the way to the end.
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Date: 2012-10-08 02:56 am (UTC)Sorry for being an annoying pedant, James, but shouldn't this entry be tagged 'foundation'?
Just sayin'
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