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Re: Aliens: everything you know is... well, "wrong" doesn't even begin to cover it.
I made it all the way through the cited article, but the writer lost my willingness-to-listen at this point:
"Yet, structure and organization are mere language elements. They are “in our head” so to speak. They do not exist in reality."
The writer's PhD is clearly not in physics. Structure exists from crystals on "up" and, from a POV, from sub-atomic particles on up.
Word-trickery and twaddle, and d**n-all else.
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1995828,00.html
Life on Titan? Not proven, but plausible enough to use in a Solar System SF campaign.
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Here's the latest on attempts to create an artificial lifeform. Not 100% three, yet, but very close.
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1501ap_us_sci_synthetic_cell.html?source=rss
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Re: Order of the Stick
And I thought the previous one was funny!
That one had me laughing till it hurt. :rofl:
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Re: Order of the Stick
IMO, that's the funniest strip OOTS has had to date.
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Re: A Game Of Questions
Microsoft is a symptom?
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Re: Order of the Stick
"...I'm only the 'Empress of Blood' a few days each month." :rofl:
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: Subtle signs that your Mom does not approve of your adventuring career.She complains every time I'm late for lunch.
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Re: General Atomics electromagnetic rail cannon
Mach 31' date=' about 7 miles per second, LEO in, um 45 seconds more or less. Assuming we can find some way for a payload to not react to hitting air at that speed like it would hitting concrete (OK, a BIG assumption), should be able to devise a heat shield that could keep the payload safe for less than a minute.[/quote']The velocity needed to get to LEO is ~8000 m/s, and ANYTHING will turn to plasma at ~4000 - 4200 m/s. Anything "shot" into orbit will have most or all "boiled away" long before it gets to the stratosphere.
Unless the heat shield is significantly more massive than the payload it's protecting, trying to "shoot" into LEO can't be done. And since the heat shield would be completely lost, it's highly uneconomical.
Mind you, a sled-like set up to get a capsule up to ~3000 m/s would work, assuming the capsule has a rocket motor. The fraction of "take off" mass that must be propellent drops pretty rapidly with a decrease in the velocity the rocket has to add to its starting velocity.
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Re: Steampunk-like world setting needs hero/power ideas
And isn't there a "super skill" called SCIENCE! in the Ultimate Skill ? I'm thinking 5th Ed here, and my books are in Arkansas at the moment and I am here in St Louis so I can't check...Anyone ?-Carl-
Not in UltSkill, but there's Scientific Genius in Pulp Hero. It's on p.295, and is simply +5 with all Science Skills; there are no modifiers, so it costs 25 points. The options are:
True Genius: +7 with all Science Skills: costs 35 points
Not Quite Such a Genius: +3 with all Science Skills: costs 15 points
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Hot Jupiters may be challenging the current theory of planetary formation.
The Bacandforthtrian says looking at things from a new angle is always a good idea.
The Bacandforthtrian is another fine product of Basil's Twisted Imagination, Igg. All rides in reverse.
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Re: Icons - The Costume and Superpowers Store
The whole "villains must pay money" bit cuts out a large number of comic-book-standard villain motivations, and not just the World Conqueror types.
There are plenty of destructive, depraved, violent, and flat-out whacko villains. Not all are rich or interested in becoming rich.
It just doesn't feel right to me.
The infamous Dr. Infamous and The Mallard refuse to discuss if there really is an "Icons."
The Bacandforthtrian is of two minds about the idea. The alpacapla both agrees and disagrees with the Bacandforthtrian.
The llamalls are listening to Aomoxomoa, and I don't know what the supersonic telepathic mutant penguins with lazer eyes are up to. Perhaps trying to find Icons.
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Re: A Game Of Questions
Do you expect me to reveal that secret?
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Re: Answers & Questions
A - Our great computers fill the hallowed halls.Q: Why are these halls full of soap suds?
A: That's what happens when you put IC chips in home appliances.
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
New Topic: Signs that the The Royal Astronomical Society have lost their collected minds.They declare that Pluto is a planet, but that Earth isn't.
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Re: Answers & Questions
A: well' date=' I speak LOUDLY, and I carry a BIGGER Stick! And I use it, too![/quote']Q #1: There's a guy out here with a stick and he's yelling about how he's going to beat you up; how do you feel about that?
A: Wax on. Wax off.Q #2: So how do keep that bigger stick looking so good?
A: I have become comfortably dumb.
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Re: Seemingly Silly Things to Model
James Bond: You own stock in everybody on Earth named James.
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Re: Answers & Questions
A: The man in the crowd with the multi-colored mirrors on his hobnail boots.Q: Well, it wasn't you or I, so who did kill the Kennedy's?
A: Nine hundred thousand tons of steel, made to roll.
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: New hip versions of classic Sinatra songs.I Did It, Like, My Kind Of, Ya Know, Way.
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Re: A Game Of Questions
Are they as comfortable as peanutbutteries?
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Re: A Game Of Questions
Isn't it the Evil Union of Ludicrous Abbreviations?
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Re: Seemingly Silly Things to Model
Were there any casters around on Gauda Prime' date=' this would have been very useful for Avon....[/quote']Huh?
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Re: Answers & Questions
A: And when you start to truly believe that you are in fact a reincarnated trout' date=' things like that tend to happen.[/quote']Q: I have a hook in my mouth, and I don't know why.
A: Not even a replica of a mask.
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: Subtle signs that the people who programmed your new video game are out of their minds.It's a port from the Trash 80.
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Re: Welcome to McGuffins. May I take your order?
Aladdin's lamp and ring. Particularly if you go to the original idea, which had none of this "three wishes" bumf, and w/o the "twist the wish around" stuff. The genie of the lamp (and the genie of the ring) obeyed the owner, fully and willingly and helpfully, *and* with all their considerable power.
Then there's "The Gizmo". In it's "off" form it's a unremarkable medallion. When turned on, it turns into whatever non-magical/non-superpowered/etc. device you need, and changes back into a medallion when you no longer need whatever it was. Important note: that's *need*, not want; and, it's a bit peculiar in deciding what you need.