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"Why does the UK have multiple national football teams trying to qualify for the World Cup?"
Because otherwise the Scottish would bitch about it.
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Now on to the making of films!
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What about the Welsh?
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They could, but I don't think anyone would even hear them.
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I'm questioning whether Vanessa Williams or any of the others were Risans. By "Risans" I mean "the indigenous people of Risa". For all we know, Risa could be a colony of some other world. Or maybe they're all just employees of the Risan Prostitution Authority, and aren't necessarily even all the same species.
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For one thing, they seem happy with the current climate of the place, even though that is an artificial thing created by Federation supertech. Would a native species of these qualifications even have survived in the pre-tamed Risa?
It makes one wonder, though. If Risa's good qualities are artificial, then why did it become a holiday resort in the first place? Why did somebody decide "Hey, let's build a paradise in this hellhole!"?
It could be that real estate there was cheap. Or that the location was favorably in between Federation core worlds. Or that the technology was tested there, on an uninhabited world, but not taken to completion; yet an entrepreneur saw that this would be a good place to pour in some extra money and turn the former test site into a resort.
Or is it just that Risa became a resort on its own, due to naturally paradiselike torpical regions, but at some point the managers decided to artificially turn the other regions into tropical ones as well?
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If I were going to create a paradise planet, I'd want one near all the major spacelanes. I'd want a planet with few other industries or natural resources (minerals, etc) so as not to distract from the resort industry or pollute the environment. The planet should have a stable environment year round, with little change in seasons (by having no tilt of its axis), meaning no rainy season or cold spells. It should also have very little radiation, and if possible, little north-to-south climate variation. Of course, such conditions don't sound very natural and might prevent life, much less intelligent life, from developing on such a planet. Therefore, you might have to terraform and stock a barren rock in a good location. Importing everything might also cut down on parasites and predators that might annoy the guests.
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But then why do all Risans have these pennies stuck to their head and why do they all believe in this weird (but convenient) religious love-making?
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