Re: [LoGH] Life expectancy
Lee Thompson (thompsonl@logh.net)
So, even with so many people getting blown to bits in space, the men and
women slaving away at an assembly line will prolly live for a long time.
Also, quoting LoGH, retired military people tend to live for a long time,
because they eat and exercise regularly (out of habit from active duty
days?).
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Spoiler alert for LoGH Gaiden OVA's
Skip if you haven't seen Silver Valley
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In the first Gaiden OVA series, Silver Valley, we saw a storyline centered
on ground combat. Both sides used tanks and infantry, rather than oribital
bombardments.
(I always wondered why they don't just drop some high explosives from space,
but then war doesn't have to be logical.)
Thinking back, I can't recall a situation where both sides duke it out with
tanks in a populated city? The civian death rate would be much higher in
that case.
When the Empire or FPA conquer a planet, it seems that the political body
just bend over when they see lots of shiny ships decend on their capital.
But if they actually decide to fight, then what? Bombardment from space
reduce city to rubble? Armored tanks smash into Starbucks Coffee while
chasing down rock-throwing students?
Also, where's the MAD factor? I can understand the hesitation in using
NCB/genetic-genocidal weapons due to MAD factor (which leads to treaties
that the leadership actually abide by). But if they had the capability,
then it's more likely that both sides would be in a cold war instead of a
shooting war.
------Original Message------
From: "Lee Thompson"
To: logh@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Sent: December 14, 2000 5:16:48 PM GMT
Subject: Re: [LoGH] Life expectancy
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:13:42 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
> I think they put all the old folks in some out-of-the-way retirement
homes,
> so we don't see them walking around.
>
> Out of sight, out of mind.
>
> Not much different from what we with our elders now a days, actually.
This is really a tough call; Rikako's points are all valid as well -- I
believe that during the USG's peak; life expentency was probably pretty good
(100-120 years possibly) -- however from the GE onward the galaxy is
experiencing a dark age.
Moreover, when you have populations as large as the Free Planets and
Galactic
Empire I'm sure good health care is probably available to the rich and
noble.
It's actually kind of moot because so many are dying in combat; and on the
Imperial side you have a lot of assassinations and so forth so the leading
cause of death is... man himself.
It's an interesting topic.
>
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: "Rikako Suzuki"
> To: logh@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Sent: December 14, 2000 10:10:39 AM GMT
> Subject: Re: [LoGH] Life expectancy
>
>
> In episode #40,you can see the galactic story until they separated.
> There,you see a man called Nguyen Kim Hua(Hoa) who was the best
> friend of Ale Heinessen. Ale and Nguyen escaped from the empire for
> another world and Ale Heinessen died by accident on the way.
> "When they finally found the new world,it had already been more
> than half a century "it said. Nguyen Kim Hua got old and was almost
> blind. So,they were travelling more than 50 years!
> And Nguyen looked very old. Then,how old was he when he left the
> empire with Ale and other people? As he was Ale's best friend that
> his age must have been similar to Ale(not sure though).
> Then,he must have been around 30 year-old when he left the empire.
> 50 years later,he was around 80 year-old.
> I don't say his life was common pattern. He kept on fighting and
> he was really tired when he finished his journey. He might have looked
> older than his age. But,still,he looked old enough at 80 years old.
> As someone pointed,in LoGH,you don't see old looking people much,
> (probably,they look young.) at least, they normally didn't live more
> than 80 year-old if you say Gnuyen is the sample of 80 year-old man in
> LoGH. Other people look much younger than he.
> What do you think?
>
> Rikako
>
>
>
> > The life expectancy of Ancient Greece was 30-35, right?
> >
> > It's not uncommon to find people living until their 80's-90's today. My
> > grandparents all made it to their 80's, I think my grandmother was 84
when
> > she passed away.
> >
> > If I told someone in Ancient Greece that my grandmother lived until she
> was
> > 84, they'd think I was crazy.
> >
> > Considering the medical and technological advances in LoGH, I think it
> > wouldn't be uncommon to find eldery folks in the 120-130 range.
> >
> >
> > Momopi
> >
> > ------Original Message------
> > From: jolan@home.com
> > To: logh@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> > Sent: December 13, 2000 11:35:38 PM GMT
> > Subject: Re: [LoGH] Life expectancy
> >
> >
> > According to the LoGH novels, the life expectancy should be 100. I
forgot
> > where in the novels I got this piece of information, but I am rather
> > positive
> > about this.
> >
> > "'Vejita' S. Cousin" wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Victor Xing wrote:
> >> > > What do you think is the average life expectancy in LoGH universe?
> >> >
> >> > Should be around 50, due to constant warfare, poverty in outlying
> > planets
> >> > and high crime rate.
> >>
> >> But look at the technology they have (eg. replacement limbs), that
> >> most of the population isn't actually fighting and the outlying planets
> >> didn't look poor so much as rural.
> >> I mean the world is pretty screwed up now and (in the USA) the life
> >> expectancy is ~74. So I'm going to go with 90-100yrs old.
> >>
> >> Mind you, you almost never see any old people in LoGH :)
> >
> >
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