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Charleson Mambo <CharlesonMambo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Expensive Lies: Peak Futurism (December 2007)
>
> (Settle down Heretic, it's not what you think.)
>
> Are we running out of futurium ore?
>
> In the eighties the seams of futurium were not only rich, they ran
> straight and true for miles, so that even the man on the street could
> easily assert which way to dig.
>
> But now the seams are thin and heavily fractured. Where once the
> futurium ran like great underground super-highways the modern miner is
> left to follow a multitude of whisplike wandering threads of futurium
> ore. Even the experts, the Great Old Men of the Industry find it nigh
> impossible to choose a direction in which to dig. (Some have turned to
> working Presentium, and others have even resorted to recycling
> yesterdays tomorrows.)
>
> If no new rich strikes are found can the futurium mining industry
> adapt to dealing with low grade ores?
>
> Perhaps a lesson can be taken from Musenite, a rare but highly sought
> out ore that is used to create the catalyst that is used to process
> futurium itself. (Along with many other other, like Actionite,
> Romancium, Comedysium, and others.)
>
> The mining and smelting of musenite has long been a niche industry,
> carried out by numerous boutique workshops. Instead of the massmarket
> manufacturing of futurium, musenite has always been worked into
> numerous niche products in small artesanal runs. Can the futurium
> industry adapt?
>
>
> Charleson Mambo
>
> (barely spell-checked, so don't even ask about editing)
Somewhere we lost the ability to want what's fantastic and replaced it
with what's "real" - and Hard Science can only go so far.
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