Timeline for Why would a space civ trade with a primitive civ?
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| Feb 23, 2023 at 3:30 | comment | added | Pingcode | Something also valuable on top of concealed sensors: collecting samples every year. Scientists love to have all kinds of samples on archive because then when someone realises that hey, we should have been measuring X, they can go back and test all the old samples in one go | |
| Feb 22, 2023 at 10:53 | comment | added | Dast | @Mon. Lots of people really love that book. (Hard to be a God). I personally found it pretty meh, but its very relevant to this answer to this question. | |
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| Feb 22, 2023 at 8:05 | comment | added | Mon | @Dast. I love reading SF, I have ever since I was a child, Now I have to look that book up. :) | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 13:04 | comment | added | Dast | Great answer. Reminds me a lot of the book: "Hard to Be a God". | |
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| Feb 20, 2023 at 22:01 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | Note: This is cultural anthropology, the label is correct but many equate anthropology with physical anthropology and don't realize the field is more than old bones. | |
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| Feb 20, 2023 at 18:25 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | @Mon, try "safety officers". And that sort of thing isn't just government-mandated. Adventure cruises to the Arctic and Antarctic typically have local guides and/or ship personnel to escort the tourists around. Officially, to provide information and to act as protection in regard to local dangers. In reality, to stop freaking idiots from getting themselves killed or screwing up things so badly the company will be in litigation and dealing with fines for years. | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 16:06 | comment | added | aherocalledFrog | Even if the goods received aren't valuable, an annual trading event like that would also be a fantastic time to hear all of the stories of the goings on in the medieval society. We have comparatively few direct records of our own past, the chance to go back and get context of what many different people and groups thought about their current events would be super valuable for spacefaring anthropologists. | |
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| Feb 20, 2023 at 14:26 | comment | added | Mon | @The Daleks Yes, even as I typed 'minders' I knew it might come across as to heavy handed. 'Guards' might have been a better descriptor but then I console myself with the fact that at least I didn't use the term 'lawyers'!! (God forbid.) Imagine a bunch of them sucking the life out of the entire expedition. | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 13:12 | comment | added | In Hoc Signo | "'minders' appointed by the Government to make sure none of the 'rules' are broken." Commissar is such an ugly word :) | |
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| Feb 20, 2023 at 3:19 | history | answered | Mon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |