The Rules - Mark II

[NARSES2]

Can we have a clear statement of what is and isn't covered by the rules please.

Are they as written in the OP at the top of the thread.

Or does post #3 apply.

If post #3 applies then it should be written into the rules.

Right post #3 has been deleted, as have a couple of others.

You can build anything that can operate in our Solar System and from any planet/asteroid/moon in our Solar System. If you want to build a space dock, then go ahead, as long as it is in our Solar System and travel to/from is restricted to within our Solar System.

Only un-manned craft/probes etc can penetrate beyond our Solar System, no manned travel, either way.

You can also build any vehicle that can be used for the exploration/exploitation of planets/moons/asteroids in our Solar System.

I think that one of the idea's behind this GB was to make it "reasonably plausible" although what scientists consider plausible and what governments are prepapred to pay for start at opposite ends of the Universes IMHO.

Anyway hopefully that's it.

[Weaver]

Thank you. 

[zenrat]

Thanks Chris.

[scooter]

So this might be a stupid question, but do exploratory bases eligible?

[NARSES2]

So this might be a stupid question, but do exploratory bases eligible?

We'll get back to you Scoot 

[McColm]

So this might be a stupid question, but do exploratory bases eligible?

We'll get back to you Scoot 

Hi Scooter, yes you are allowed.

[scooter]

So this might be a stupid question, but do exploratory bases eligible?

We'll get back to you Scoot 

Hi Scooter, yes you are allowed.

Thanks.  And I am really glad y'all understood my fatfingering

[zenrat]

You can build anything that can operate in our Solar System and from any planet/asteroid/moon in our Solar System. If you want to build a space dock, then go ahead, as long as it is in our Solar System and travel to/from is restricted to within our Solar System.

Only un-manned craft/probes etc can penetrate beyond our Solar System, no manned travel, either way.

You can also build any vehicle that can be used for the exploration/exploitation of planets/moons/asteroids in our Solar System.

I think that one of the idea's behind this GB was to make it "reasonably plausible" although what scientists consider plausible and what governments are prepapred to pay for start at opposite ends of the Universes IMHO.

Anyway hopefully that's it.

This would include vehicles sent from other planets to explore earth.  I might have an idea...

[NARSES2]

You can build anything that can operate in our Solar System and from any planet/asteroid/moon in our Solar System. If you want to build a space dock, then go ahead, as long as it is in our Solar System and travel to/from is restricted to within our Solar System.

Only un-manned craft/probes etc can penetrate beyond our Solar System, no manned travel, either way.

You can also build any vehicle that can be used for the exploration/exploitation of planets/moons/asteroids in our Solar System.

I think that one of the idea's behind this GB was to make it "reasonably plausible" although what scientists consider plausible and what governments are prepapred to pay for start at opposite ends of the Universes IMHO.

Anyway hopefully that's it.

This would include vehicles sent from other planets to explore earth.  I might have an idea...

Not really mate. The crucial bit is this :-

The GB only covers spacecraft and vehicles launched and used within our Solar System. You may build models of probes intended for travel beyond our solar system, but they can not be manned.

There's also "Launches and recoveries can be made from Earth and/ or other planets and moons within our solar system"

Now you could have a spacecraft from beyond our Solar System that was then used within our System I suppose, but it's pushing it, I'm not sure how but ? 

Once your ideas more concrete PM me and we'll think about it

Thinking about it a lot would depend on if the vehicle was manned or not I suppose.

[kerick]

In the future perhaps we should have a "space" GB that would be open to anything. Then everyone could go crazy with all their ideas, many of which sound pretty good.

[Weaver]

Perhaps Fred's idea would be acceptable if the aliens came from within our solar system, say from the alien base we all know is on the far side of the moon, or the as yet undiscovered aquatic civilisation beneath the ice of Europa? That would be launched "from within our solar system" to explore planets "within our solar system", wouldn't it?

[scooter]

Perhaps Fred's idea would be acceptable if the aliens came from within our solar system, say from the alien base we all know is on the far side of the moon, or the as yet undiscovered aquatic civilisation beneath the ice of Europa? That would be launched "from within our solar system" to explore planets "within our solar system", wouldn't it?

*cough* Mars Attacks *cough*
*cough* War of the Worlds *cough*

[kerick]

Those damned Martians!!!!

Or Venetians

Or Europians

Or Plutonians

I know, I'm no help.........

[NARSES2]

Perhaps Fred's idea would be acceptable if the aliens came from within our solar system, say from the alien base we all know is on the far side of the moon, or the as yet undiscovered aquatic civilisation beneath the ice of Europa? That would be launched "from within our solar system" to explore planets "within our solar system", wouldn't it?

To be honest that's the way my mind started to work when I got to bed last night (see I can't stop thinking about by Moderation tasks even in bed - seriously  ) . Something like that, or perhaps an alien spacecraft that was discovered derelict on some outer planet/moon. No one has any idea where it had come from, but it was recovered and tested within our Solar System.

[Wardukw]

Ya also gotta take to mind just how big our solar system is..there's like a 100 billion stars or more in our system alone ..we are not the only inhabitants of said solar system so there's gotta be dudes from places in  our system 🤔
That makes the possibilities endless of who or what is out there .
Definitely something to think about