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Re: Australia in the current CU put it under Maralinga then - nobody goes there because of the fallout.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Alcohol.

Re: Strange Hero Concepts: Discuss Your Own! altho one hopes he never visits the penguin enclosure at his local zoo.

Re: Strange Hero Concepts: Discuss Your Own! I played a Thermal Detonator Sales-gibbon once.

Re: Australia in the current CU as far as Aussie supers go, you'ld have to take into account that whilst Australians like to think of themselves as ruggedly independant, we do tend to jump up and say "yes, sir!" whenever our government (or rather, whoever our government is currently looking up to - originally Great Britain, the last 60 years the US ) says "hey you, come fight and die to protect our interests" On the other hand, even when whoever is in charge is an abject incompentant, Australian soldiers do tend to be highly professional, compentant, high in initiative and absolutely disinclined to take shit from their allies. So the official super will probably be on loan to allied governments, and heavily involved in peace-keeping and, quite often, disaster relief.

Re: Surviving fall from orbit provided the pressure is right - air that thin they'll happily stay gases.

Re: Surviving fall from orbit quite right - my bad - the calculation WAS for kps, tho.

Re: Surviving fall from orbit assuming typical PC toughness - solid iron - and a mininum orbital velocity - 11kph - at least you get a crater, and the impactor remains mostly intact. Transient Crater Diameter: 32.1 m = 105 ft Transient Crater Depth: 11.4 m = 37.3 ft Final Crater Diameter: 40.2 m = 132 ft Final Crater Depth: 8.56 m = 28.1 ft The crater formed is a simple crater The floor of the crater is underlain by a lens of broken rock debris (breccia) with a maximum thickness of 3.97 m = 13 ft. At this impact velocity ( < 12 km/s), little shock melting of the target occurs. There won't even be a fireball, and even a mere 100 metres from the crater you'll barely feel the seismic shockwave. Admittedly, the civilians on the block you just reduced to a Simple Crater will be very unhappy....

Re: Surviving fall from orbit for a 1m wide lump of porous rock (ice as even less tough) entering straight down, at a mere 15 kps Energy before atmospheric entry: 8.84 x 1010 Joules = 0.21 x 10-4 MegaTons TNT The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is less than 1 month. Atmospheric Entry: The projectile begins to breakup at an altitude of 70500 meters = 231000 ft The projectile bursts into a cloud of fragments at an altitude of 59600 meters = 196000 ft The residual velocity of the projectile fragments after the burst is 14 km/s = 8.7 miles/s The energy of the airburst is 1.14 x 1010 Joules = 0.27 x 10-5 MegaTons. No crater is formed, although large fragments may strike the surface. so, where will they find the large fragments of you? calculations via The Impact Calculator http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

Re: Brainstorming a mystical superhero mansion A Gelatinous Cube as garbage disposal. A corridor that gets darker and darker as you walk down it. And it breathes A large and ancient block of carved stone, standing in pride of place in one of the social rooms. It bears cuneiform writing and carvings of the PCs. Nobody knows how it got there. It just showed up. The guest bedroom that broadcasts dreams to the rest of the house. 700 peeled-off skins of the cook, neatly folded and hanging in one of the servant's wardrobes. A Pressed Fairy collection in the nursery. All the fireplaces need to be defrosted if you leave the windows open in damp weather. Otherwise, they work fine. The gallery is hung with dozens of portraits of the owner's ancestors. All 2 inches by 3, and all perfect. Floor, walls, and ceiling are all mahogany panelling, polished to a mirror finish. A beehive in the conservatory, with the bees trained to make wax effigies. Occasionally they have to be smoked before they start using them on the guests. A terrarium in the front room, with spear-waving 9th century frenchmen beating on the glass. A very intimate bath.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat hamburger mince. not enough fat to hold the mince together.

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Re: Surviving fall from orbit Surviving a fall from orbit is what our group uses as a basis for character toughness. I refer you to the appropriately named Project Excelsior, from 1959 and 1960. Project Excelsior was a series of high-altitude parachute jumps made by Captain (later Colonel) Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force in 1959 and 1960 to test the Beaupre multi-stage parachute system. In one of these jumps Kittinger set world records for the highest parachute jump and the longest parachute freefall, both of which still stand (as of 2007). He jumped from 20 miles up. He reached a speed of over a thousand kilometres an hour. he didn't open his main shute until 4 and half minutes later. So, even assuming that you were dropped straight down from low Earth orbit (thus avoiding the worst of reentry heating), the problem isn't going to be how hard you hit the ground, but how long you can survive without oxygen, in temperatures of 70 C below zero. let alone tumbling hopelessly and totally disorientatingly.

Re: WWYCD: "I Am Doctor Destryoer!" well, Oddhat, thanks for more details about Destroyer. And for making me hope no-one EVER puts Style in such a situation Vitus, on the otherhand, despite all the feeble kicking of nads he'll be capable of, would also enjoy actually being able to out-smart somebody for a change

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Re: Australia in the current CU *grins* Considering a platypus - electro-senses that can easily pick up prey in total darkness, amphibious, venemous spurs, etc, is pretty scary in itself

Re: 10 Real-life Superheroes good for them

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat done

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Re: Australia in the current CU Another Sandgroper here *waves* - also Barbara VdB, and '3', and Sundog (altho he's more an honorary sandgroper, being, as he is, from washington). Biggest problem an Australian super is going to have is the public reaction he'll get. We tend to have no patience at all for somebody that calls *themself* a hero, but we'll defend to the bitter end anyone we *decide* is a hero, especially if they're modest about it. "Tall Poppy Syndrome" is alive and well in the Antipodes. (I wonder if there's any way of working in our famously lethal wildlife? No relationship between name and power of course, otherwise 'Blue' wouldn't be a common nickname for redheads.)

Re: WWYCD: Felononius Feline Yes, since Vitus finds almost all species other than his own rather unpleasant. If she's attractive, that implies she's a gnoll. If she's a gnoll, then Vitus has a chance at restoring his species. So he'ld have to take more care in stopping her getting away. Can you still bear children with a broken spine?

Re: 10 Real-life Superheroes SuperBarrio did, in Third World War - see my previous post

Re: 10 Real-life Superheroes actually, I'm pretty sure Superbarrio has already been in a comic - early episode of Pat Mill's Third World War in Crisis http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=prog&page=specials&choice=crisis08

Re: "Crumbling Carrots, we've been animal-morphitized!" Small change for Vitus - he'ld be a rabid non-anthro hyena...