Why is Interstellar Trade So Important in the SW Galaxy?

Murazor · Post by **Murazor** » 2003-12-12 01:56pm

[quote="Simon H.Johansen"]humans, IIRC, can't live entirely off food which comes from 'neath the waves. (unless, of course, they've interbred with Deep Ones)[/quote]

In fact, humans can live with food from "beneath the waves" without any problem. For as long as the food they eat isn't poisonous. Most of the guesses of Verne in the diet on board the Nautilus were correct. Humans (particularly with an advanced tech level) can live without meat and milk.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-12-12 04:37pm

Murazor wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:humans, IIRC, can't live entirely off food which comes from 'neath the waves. (unless, of course, they've interbred with Deep Ones)
In fact, humans can live with food from "beneath the waves" without any problem. For as long as the food they eat isn't poisonous. Most of the guesses of Verne in the diet on board the Nautilus were correct. Humans (particularly with an advanced tech level) can live without meat and milk.

GAHH!!! Forgot "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" completely!!

Now I've really embarassed myself. Ack ack ack.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » 2003-12-12 05:35pm

Simon

This shouldn't cause problems for aquatic species like Kaminoans and Mon Calamari, who have evolved from seals and fish respectively - but, say, humans, IIRC, can't live entirely off food which comes from 'neath the waves. (unless, of course, they've interbred with Deep Ones)

You do realize that, their is plant life in the ocean for them to eat as well, right. And besides that their were human societies such as the Inuits who at one time derive their entire diet from the Sea. Many cultures today still maintain a high seafood diet.

Murazor

There may be some political reason. Planets that need each other are less likely to try something against the Galactic Republic/Empire. And nothing is 100% efficient, so the recycling things must have a limit. And a planet as developed as Coruscant more than likely does not have many resources to exploit.

Which is why I mentioned the fact that Courscant is not the only resource in the System, the are other planets, asteroids, etc; that can be exploited locally. and those resources are vast my friend. A good sized asteroid contains billions of tons of minerals.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-12-14 02:14am

Never mind the evidence that we are actually descended from The Undersea Monkeys!

Ok, seriously, there was a program that talked about a woman who insisted that there was a missing link between monkey and man, and it was basically a water-dwelling monkey whose diet was based entirely on fish. (in fact she argued that all that phosphor was probably one of the causes why we got so smart)

Not that I actually know about that, but it did sound quite convincing. And japanese basically eat only fish, rice and algae... and rice doesn't contribute shit to nutrition.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2003-12-14 03:18am

Slartibartfast wrote:Never mind the evidence that we are actually descended from The Undersea Monkeys!

Ok, seriously, there was a program that talked about a woman who insisted that there was a missing link between monkey and man, and it was basically a water-dwelling monkey whose diet was based entirely on fish. (in fact she argued that all that phosphor was probably one of the causes why we got so smart)

Not that I actually know about that, but it did sound quite convincing. And japanese basically eat only fish, rice and algae... and rice doesn't contribute shit to nutrition.

Actually, the evidence that homo sapiens descended from "aquatic" primates is gaining *some* ground.

Its something to do with the fact that our fat distribution, breathing capability and so on would not have been suited to life on the savannah, but is suited to life in an aquatic environment.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-12-14 05:01am

Do not for a second buy into the "aquatic ape" anti-scientific bullshit. It is completely and utterly false, and the only people who belive in such are just one step above creationists but well into the lunatic fringe...

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/maquaticape.html

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2003-12-15 07:55am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Do not for a second buy into the "aquatic ape" anti-scientific bullshit. It is completely and utterly false, and the only people who belive in such are just one step above creationists but well into the lunatic fringe...

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/maquaticape.html

Okey dokey.