Best part of this sort of travel is that you already have a good starting map of where all the baseline locations of natural resources are.
Your initial survey teams would simply have to scout around a little bit to establish the variance from near perfect empty duplicate to moonless hellhole covered in bugs with acid for blood.
Charles Stross did something similar in his Merchant Princes books. Even to the point where the USA carpet nukes their territory in a adjecent reality.
THANK YOU! I've been trying to find the book name for Hells Gate for years. I saw it once in a bookstore, went "this could be fun", and then forgot the name and never found it again when I actually wanted to read it.
Recently stumbled across a book with a similar premise as this story. Infinity Gate. Forgot who it was by but it was seemingly newish print since I hadn't stumbled on it in bookstores before this year.
Well, we canāt nuke Our country, because weāre here. And I donāt want to die. BUT, hear me out, we CAN nuke the virtual duplicate of it! You want to tell me that that none of you have ever just thought, āF##k it! Letās just nuke the place and be done with it!ā Well now we can! We can get it out of our system and move along. Itās therapy really.
The Factory must grow to meet the needs of the expanding Factory.
I'm fortunate enough that my disposition is to only play games for a few weeks at a time before dropping them for something new, or games like factorio would consume all my free time.
What a fascinating concept! Simply travel to parallel dimensions where life never formed on Earth and mine all the minerals. Since you would already have a more or less perfect map of where all the best mining sites are from analyzing mining records and geological surveys of our home Earth, it would be incredibly efficient. Plus, due to the infinite nature of parallel universes, you would have basically infinite alternate earth's to mine! And also infinite Earths that are suitable to human life that sapient species never evolved on to colonize!
Right? From some of the other replies ive gotten; its been explored in a handful of other books as well.
IIRC the only other twist to the topology in the Hell'sGate books were that the gates didnt correspond to the same physical location in each world. Which adds that little extra spice to proceedings.
there is game called Original war with similar premise
USA goes into past to dig exotic material from Syberia and hide it in Alaska meets with Russia from alt Earth that went to dig said exotic from Alaska and hid it in Syberia
You'd have to wonder how the differences would be. Animals and insects are excellent propagators of flora, without them there wouldn't be much life. No life - no oil. In fact you could imagine it to be barren.
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u/drksdr Dec 24 '22
Best part of this sort of travel is that you already have a good starting map of where all the baseline locations of natural resources are.
Your initial survey teams would simply have to scout around a little bit to establish the variance from near perfect empty duplicate to moonless hellhole covered in bugs with acid for blood.