RPMiller Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER |\ --\ |/_\ Something like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER |\ --\ |/_\ Something like that? Naw, just draw it on a curved surface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yup. Easiest to see is on a globe. One angle at zero longitude, zero latitude; one at 90 E longitude, zero latitude; the third at either of the poles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yup. Easiest to see is on a globe. One angle at zero longitude' date=' zero latitude; one at 90 E longitude, zero latitude; the third at either of the poles.[/quote'] Related to the whole "hunting the bear" riddle: A hunter gets up and travels due south for 1 mile, where he spots and shoots a bear. The bear runs east for 1 mile, until the hunter finally catches him and finishes him off. The hunter then travels north for 1 mile to get back to his camp. Where is it possible for this to happen? And there are actually 2 answers for this. One is a specific location and the other is a set of locations, but only one makes a triangle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I don't believe that's true' date=' I've seen multiple credits for VAs in things.[/quote'] Specifically in Justice League/Unlimited? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I currently reading an e-book "The Secret Team" by Col. L. Fletcher Prouty. I should get back to reading it after a few day off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Specifically Cancer, but other too. I'm curious about thoughts on this article. It isn't mine. http://www.fantasist.net/scroll/?p=614 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That page is coming up empty to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Me, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Weird... Maybe he got too many hits and was deactivated. I'll find out and get back to you when it is back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER http://www.fantasist.net/scroll/?p=614 It looks like it is back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Actually, my first reaction is to google frantically for an old instructor of mine and see what his sf pseudonym was .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So, it is good stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Could be. I can't judge the models from what appears there, but the right noises are there, when you try to decipher them backwards through the popular media filter. Though the Terrestrial Planet Finder mission, cited at the end of the National Geographic item linked in that page, I thought was belly-up; I read something last spring indicating it had been suspended indefinitely and its funding zeroed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Cool. Did you look at the Hoffman Quartet pdf? http://www.fantasist.net/downloads/HoffmanQuartet.pdf What did you think of that? This is coming from a physics student on the Campaign Cartographers elist. Apparently his professor and he did this as a "special project". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER This is the actual post: I know this is getting off-topic by quite a bit, but Tau Ceti is one of the more popular choices for stars that might have life-bearing planets because it's so close in composition to our Sun. I had a physics professor do me up a theoretical solar system around TC and he complimented me on the choice since it was close enough to be possible, but different enough to be interesting. In fact, I put the work I commissioned from him up on my website, if anyone is interested. (Actually, I posted a blog entry about something else and included a link to the system, which we called Hoffman's Quartet. http://www.fantasist.net/scroll/?p=614 ) Enjoy! Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Eerily familiar. His development is very much like mine would be, and where I stop to read it carefully, I nod. Looks like good stuff to me. My sci-fi mock-up world was orbiting 61 Vir, it had been colonized by sentient plants. It was unremarkable in terms of its planetary system. I spent more time working out the details of interstellar tech, what it meant for travel, and what the evolutionary pressures on plants would mean for their motives and psychology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Specifically in Justice League/Unlimited? Various Anime. Never seen Justice League/Unlimited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Eerily familiar. His development is very much like mine would be, and where I stop to read it carefully, I nod. Looks like good stuff to me. My sci-fi mock-up world was orbiting 61 Vir, it had been colonized by sentient plants. It was unremarkable in terms of its planetary system. I spent more time working out the details of interstellar tech, what it meant for travel, and what the evolutionary pressures on plants would mean for their motives and psychology. That sounds kind of cool. Did you do anything rpg system wise or just the physics of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Various Anime. Never seen Justice League/Unlimited. then we are talking about two different things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That sounds kind of cool. Did you do anything rpg system wise or just the physics of it? It's mostly physics and interpretations of evolutionary biology, and figuring out where those high-level decisions allowed RPGs to take place. Ultimately the answer was "not very many interesting places", because it was an interesting story but not a good game scenario. I'll look at those notes again; I was a co-GM for that, but it didn't go well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Oo-er. After a six-month drought, it is going to rain today. Big time. Thunderstorms, thundersqualls, and a Flood Watch for localized flooding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER then we are talking about two different things. I thought we were talking about Voice Acting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER After a 12 hour work day my faithful car takes me home through a raging blizzard only to be come lodged in a 2 foot drift on my street. Poor thing may not make it back out in the morning to get me to work again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I thought we were talking about Voice Acting? I'm talking about Justice League/Unlimited voice actors, you're talking about anime. Two different things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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