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  • C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series spans 22 volumes (currently). I enjoyed it immensely.

    While not sci-fi, Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series is great for "on a journey" across the seas of the Napoleonic era.

  • It seems like ownership is the wrong paradigm for natural resources. As the article mentions, Texas and Oklahoma allow ownership of water as a mineral right. That allows unlimited exploitation of the resource, ignoring that the resource itself is limited. Thus, the Ogallala aquifer is depleted. Resources need to be managed to prevent tragedy of the commons.

  • I think Sisko's threat is to start collecting rent Quark technically always owed but that Sisko had chosen to overlook because of the benefits the bar brings to the promenade, especially in the immediate aftermath of the Cardassian withdrawal.

  • You should really only need inertial dampeners when changing velocity. You only go splat when the ship's velocity is significantly different from yours. If it slows down before you do, you splat on the forward bulkhead. If it speeds up faster than you, you splat on the aft bulkhead.

  • But there are almost always red flags — transactions that appear out of character, for example — that lead to the eviction. The algorithmically generated alerts are reviewed every day by human employees.

    I doubt the "reviewed every day by human employees" part. The whole thing smacks of algorithms running unmonitored.