Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

Damien Valentine schrieb:

> Now, is Robinson Crusoe going to ask the chimpanzees, hat in hand, to
> help him build a raft to get off the island?  Is he going to try to
> infiltrate the chimp band, get himself a chimp wife, start jockeying
> for position in the chimp hierarchy?  Heck, no.  Dollars to doughnuts,
> it's not even going to occur to him.  The most interaction he's likely
> to have is hunting them for their meat, and ripping off their skins to
> make trousers.

But the stranger has to blend in to escape his chasers. All out 
destruction would ****ne up at least as much as the superinventions ruled 
out in the OP for that very reason. Less then that puts the protagonist 
in a position where its needed to arrange himself with the natives. 
Being bright won't help if your activity (in the magnitude of the apollo 
project, without a state to cover it up) is somehow detected, and the 
hero is stated to be quite vulnerable to chimps with pointy sticks.