Adam Kadmon

Re: Astrophysics question Actually photons only appear to travel slower than light speed in other mediums. They are in fact travelling at the speed of light but are bouncing back and forth between the heavier particles. As an example, it takes about 30,000 years for a photon to go from the Sun's core to its surface, but takes only 8 minutes for the photon to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.

Re: Real World Stuff That Only Sounds Like A Comic Book Tibetan Sound Levitation Of Large Stones Tibetan monks, making a "terrible din" & "unbelievable noise" with drums, trumpets and chanting, use 45 Str TK to levitate stone blocks to a distance of 250" and 125" up in the air. What gets me about the article is the detailed use of measurements- it makes it sound so believable. http://www.crystalinks.com/levitationtibet.html

Re: How effective do you feel weapons should be I ran a campaign where the standard legal weapon was a laser that did 3d6 .. that’s 3d6 normal damage. With a bit of tweaking they could do up to 6d6 normal, but this meant they burnt out pretty quickly, depending how much extra damage you wanted. Now since nobody had any armour this made them pretty effective. Of course a lot of people found martial arts to be more effective, but that was the whole point. That's why we called the campaign Sci Fi Kung Fu.

Re: [Compilation] "to Star HERO Conversions & Adaptations" The Culture Universe by Iain M Banks. One of my favorite sets of books. http://www.rpgarchive.com/index.php?page=adv1&advid=550

Re: 'Optimal' Travel Time This is great. I've just started working on a SF campaign and I was wondering how to work out travel times. I translated the formula into AU. put this in cell B3: =SQRT(4*L11*150000000*1000/(M$2*9.86))/60/60/24 in row B2,C2, etc put in the Gs in column A3,A4,etc put in the AU Drag the formula to the right and then down and you get the table oh, then select the table, go to format cell, goto custom, type in d:h:m:sec, and you get the answer in days, hours, mins, secs. Adam K. (:?)

Re: Need help naming Enviornmentalist team. The Rainbow Warriors In memory of the Greenpeace ship sunk by those dastardly French.

Re: Superhero Images Oh, is that how you do it - jeez - how am i suposed to remember how to do that? Anyway, glad you found my pic at blackgate.net. I couldnt figure out how to link it to here, so i ended up using the attach files button here.

Re: The Science of Magic and the Evolution of Gods Is this meant to be a psych lim? Shouldn't it be a physical limit? At the moment mages and clerics only believe that they cant use other lay lines. Having it as a physical limit means they cant use the lay lines.

Re: Superhero Images I never thought i would post my own pic here - i cant draw for crap. But then i discovered Heromachine! So, i present to you The Amazing Scintillating Gem! She has photonic-force based powers (whatever that means!). She can fly real fast, shoot pretty pathetic photonic beams of energy with amazing accuracy, and she can glow brightly - in fact she always glows brightly! Stealth? What's that?

Re: Miniaturized Manufacturing Units? I've read the first 2 Baroque cycle books by Neal Stephenson and I think they are wonderful. I'm eagerly awaiting the 3rd one, which is due out on the 21st of September. And yes, Enoch Root is the same Enoch Root from the Cryptonomicon, but i have yet to find out how he survives down through the ages - perhaps its a combination of alchemy and magical realism? The Baroque cycle might not be everyone’s cup of tea, after all, it is historical fiction, and although i love historical fiction, I'm hoping that his next work will be Sci-fi, perhaps something set after Diamond Age. Which leads me on to Nanotech... At the moment I'm reading Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler, the nanotech prophet. If you want to know about the capabilities of Nano, then I urge you to beg, borrow or steal a copy of this book. What he proposes will simply boggle your mind! Some possibilities: Construction - super-strong and super-light materials. If you can imagine it (and physical laws allow it), you can build it. Size does not matter. All that is needed is energy, materials, and a plan to follow. And if you don’t have a plan, you can always get your AI computer to design you one. Computers – a single nano-computer will be more powerful than current PCs, yet will be magnitudes smaller than a biological cell. A host of these nano-computers all linked together will have an incredible level of computational power. And these computers don't even have to be electrical, they can be mechanical - think of them as miniature Babbage machines. Biology – nano-machines can exist in every cell in the body. If they detect a mistake they can fix it - cancers are destroyed, invading viruses are consumed, blood clots are cleared up, faulty DNA is rewritten. The only thing they cant do is restore knowledge that is lost from damage. Of course, translating this into a campaign setting is difficult. I’m still coming to grips with it myself. Where are the limits? What can and cant be done? What is and isn’t done? What affects will countless nanobots have on society? The mind boggles. Adam K. ps. For more info go to http://www.foresight.org/

have you seen this? Mind-boggling Big Bang glow hints at funnel-shaped Universe: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994879

Re: Generic Star Hero Galactic Map this is a nice site: http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/milkyway.html go to the big map, plot a grid over it, draw a few wiggly lines for your empires, draw in a few key stars, and there you have your galactic map. the whole site is quite good. It gives you a nice sense of scale http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/index.html