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Re: My mostly hard sci-fi campaign I calculated the travel times between other planets. Here's the list: Mercury-Venus: 36.7 days Mercury-Mars: 67.5 days Mercury-Ceres: 84.3 days Mercury-Jupiter: 138.9 days Mercury-Saturn: 191.5 days Venus-Mars: 56.6 days Venus-Ceres: 90.6 days Venus-Jupiter: 134.0 days Venus-Saturn: 188.0 days Mars-Ceres: 70.7 days Mars-Jupiter: 121.4 days Mars-Saturn: 179.2 days Ceres-Jupiter: 98.7 days Ceres-Saturn: 164.7 days Jupiter-Saturn: 131.8 days

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares General Hospital: The Wrath of My Little Pony

Re: "Neat" Pictures "Dragula"???? Sounds more like a cross-dressing vampire.

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Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Highlander on Ice

Re: My mostly hard sci-fi campaign Thanks fo the help, Cancer. I did place a colony on one of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. I can always add more as the cmpaign progresses.

Re: Jokes Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering. Finally fed up, God said, "THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to setup a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job." So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away. They moused. They faxed. They e-mailed. They e-mailed with attachments. They downloaded. They did spreadsheets! They wrote reports. They created labels and cards. They created charts and graphs. They did some genealogy reports. They did every job known to man. Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency, and Satan was faster than hell. Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just sighed. Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming: "It's gone! It's all GONE! "I lost everything when the power went out!" Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work. Satan observed this and became irate. "Wait!" he screamed. "That's not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don't have any?" God just shrugged and said, "JESUS SAVES."

Re: old world maps of europe Try these links: http://feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html http://www.the-map-as-history.com/maps/1_history-europe-XIX-congress-vienna.php

Re: "Neat" Pictures That reminds me.... I really need to see my dentist!

Re: My mostly hard sci-fi campaign For the sake of convenience, I decided spacecraft engines could provide a thrust equal to 1% of the spacecraft's total mass. gives me these times: Earth to Mercury: 49.6 days Earth to Venus: 33.3 days Earth to Mars: 45.8 days Earth to Ceres: 84.3 days Earth to Jupiter: 129.8 days Earth to Saturn: 185.2 days Trips to the moon, L4 and L5 would require less thrust, but such a trip would take only 2-3 hours. I'll post the other travel times between other planets later.

Re: My mostly hard sci-fi campaign Thanks for the link, Cancer. I heard L2 was going to be the location of WMAP; I'm thinking of making the observatory there its successor. It will have booster rockets that will be used when its orbit needs to be stabilized. This would also be the case for the L1 station and the ill-fated L3 colony. How much space debris is there in the L4 and L5 locations? I'm looking at the Kordylewski clouds entry on Wikipedia; perhaps there is a crew that clears out the debris (something from Planetes?). And the debris may indeed be hiding some nukes or other defenses. As for the search for life on Europa, Enceladus, etc. The search continues, and there will be teams of scientists involved in those places looking for clues. Maybe something will be found; for now it's out of the scope of my campaign. However, it's a great idea for the continuation/sequel of the campaign.

Re: Serenity RPG Another job well done, QM!

Re: The cranky thread If it's any consolation, at least nobody got hurt. Last Tuesdays, two cars collided; one car careened over to tthe sidewalk and killed a pedestrian. Here's the story.

Re: A Thread For Random Links http://www.orcmagazine.com/ One of the links is NSFW. You'll know which one.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares The Invisible Godzilla

Re: My mostly hard sci-fi campaign I've heard about the manga, but I haven't been able to find it yet. I'll keep looking.

Re: My mostly hard sci-fi campaign Thanks CorPse. I have been working on this for about a year and a half now. It started as a standard space opera, then the science got progressively harder.

Re: A Game on the Run? I briefly ran a nonmagical fantasy where all the characters were outlaws. It only lasted a couple of sessions, unforunately. Then real life got in the way, and the campaign died.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Enter the Dragonheart Lord of the Temple of the Living Dead

Re: Abyssinia, Land of Mystery *Yanks BobGreenwade off the stage with a great big hook*

Re: Abyssinia, Land of Mystery A 1902 encyclopedia? Cool! The oldest hard copy I came across was a 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The aether theory was still being seriously discussed, and there was no entry on Albert Einstein.

Re: My mostly hard sci-fi campaign Here's a rough timeline of the campaign: 2010: ISS completed; Orion spacecraft replaces the Space Shuttle 2015: Project Orion enables US ships to return to the moon 2017: Joint Russian-Chinese venture to the moon 2020: Lunar outposts completed; first use of VASIMR drive; rail guns become practical 2023: First space stations on L4 and L5 begin construction 2025: First space tug becomes operational 2028: First manned mission to Mars 2032: Several national and international outposts founded on Mars 2037: Military coup in Russia returns the Communist Party to power 2041: Asteroid mining becomes practical 2042: Gas core reactor rockets become practical 2048: Preliminary mission to Jovian moons 2050: Space stations orbiting Mercury and Venus completed 2053: Preliminary mission to Titan 2064: Space elevator in the Pacific Ocean becomes operational 2067: Western and Eastern natiions begin colonizing the moons of Jupiter and Saturn without notifying one another 2068: Territorial dispute over the moons begins; all involved nations agree to share the territories for now 2070: Russia and China arm their colonies on L4 2072: USA begins building military spacecraft in L5 2074: Mining accident on Ceres; sabotage is suspected and fingers are pointed 2076: Unexplained destruction of a Chinese spacecraft and the American space station where it was docking. Chinese and US ships investigate independently; a skirmish ensues. War is declared on September 12

Re: Abyssinia, Land of Mystery That's what they claim, but we all know Indiana Jones brought the real Ark back to the USA, where the government keeps in under lock and key in some warehouse.

Re: My mostly hard sci-fi campaign Okay, I'm redoing the travel time between planets. Taking Cancer's advice, I'll use the formula acceleration = thrust/mass. Should I use the formula time = [2*distance/acceleration]^1/2 to find the travel time? Note: I've decided to go with gas core reactor core rockets, which have higher thrust and delta-v than the VASIMR drive.

Re: Abyssinia, Land of Mystery Cool! I owe you some rep. I need to recharge first.