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  • One of those portable, nifty, hand-held medical analyzers the good doctors scanned up and down your body, or that the away team used to take on-planet readings with.

    Neat Inventions… 2009

  • Synopsis: The life story of Akuin, a male member of the fur-covered Hwarhath species who foster a matriarchic society on-planet while the adult men work in space to defend against the inevitable and impending attack from humans.

    REVIEW: Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan 2006

  • Once on-planet resources run down, and thus the prices are driven up, the return to exploiting energy and materials in outer space will rise.

    Why Julian Simon is both right and wrong James 2008

  • If we still have decades of on-planet resources to use, then we can expect an even greater technological capability to be available to exploit the off-planet resources.

    Why Julian Simon is both right and wrong James 2008

  • Synopsis: The life story of Akuin, a male member of the fur-covered Hwarhath species who foster a matriarchic society on-planet while the adult men work in space to defend against the inevitable and impending attack from humans.

    REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #22 edited by Gardner Dozois 2005

  • The Firefly lands on a planet, necessitating a CG shot anytime the ship is shown sitting there, while the only ships that land in BSG are so small they are easy to construct on the on-planet sets/locations.

    Archive 2006-10-15 patternjuggler 2006

  • The Firefly lands on a planet, necessitating a CG shot anytime the ship is shown sitting there, while the only ships that land in BSG are so small they are easy to construct on the on-planet sets/locations.

    Firefly Disc 1 patternjuggler 2006

  • However, the CDF only recruits on-planet, so the colonists don't know, either, even if you could ask them, which you can't.

    Old Mans War 2005

  • The CDF doesn't operate on-planet, so you can't ask a CDF veteran.

    Old Mans War 2005

  • The Kri'ronkis refused to let us bring personal goods on-planet for our own use and they insisted that their law, some would say lack of law, applied to all who walked their muddy backwater.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

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