In your letter dated Wed, 15 Jan 1992 11:21 CDT, you wrote:
>
> Adrian, Bertil and others have been talking about if earth is
> TL 8 or not.
>
> <Stuff deleted>
> I personally disagree with the above. In my opinion it
> should be:
> TL 4 =American Civil War
> TL 5 =World War I
> TL 6 =World War II through mid Korean War
> TL 7 =Mid Korea up to mid Vietnam War
> TL 8 =Late Vietnam war up to today
>
> The whole point of this is that Tech level can be pretty vague
> when you try to pin down 'This is TL 8'.
>
This is about the interpretation that I usually use, for much the same reason
as Scott.
> A great deal of the vehicles I have put up are TL 8. (I may even
> have put out more Tech 8 stuff than the unbeatable Rob Dean!:-)
Actually, according to my notebooks, assuming I haven't lost anything of
yours, and not counting the great spaceship built around the TL8 nuclear
thermal rocket that I'll upload tomorrow, our count is now Me:40 You:21.
Nice try, though... (-: (-: (-:
Rob Dean