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Re: Panspermia, anyone? Panspermia ISN'T ruled out. There's just nothing to support the idea and it adds whatever the problems are with life originating to the problems associated with somehow getting life into space, across interstellar distances and onto a planet in shape to start replicating.

Re: With even greater power.... That depends. What happens to me when I complain about her regime?

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Haruhi Potter and the Hogwarts Host Club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouran_High_School_Host_Club

Re: Panspermia, anyone? High. Heavier elements are more massive. If pre-solar nebulae form in the first place (and we can actually see them forming in lots of places, notably the Pleides), then heavier elements are less likely to escape the gravitational pull. Um...so? Leading us to the conclusion that space has lots of rocks in it. As it happens we've looked at space, and it turns out that space has lots of rocks in it. Ah but that's not the issue. The issue is whether an even more improbable event is preferable as an explanation to one which merely seems improbable. Panspermia can't be ruled out at this time but there's no real support for it either. We haven't found earthlike-life in space, and there are reason to think that space would be very inhospitable to it so until we do, there's no particular reason to think that Earth-like life didn't originate on Earth.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? If space was filled with life we wouldn't have to go to Mars to find it it. We'd be finding it in moon rocks and meteorites. The only reason why they went to Mars in particular looking for life is because they have a sneaking suspicion that life needs liquid water and Mars probably had liquid water once upon a time.

Re: Civil War Yes but never before has the proposed plan been so blatantly oppressive that nobody's character could concievably cooperate with it.

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Re: WWYCD: Welcome Divinity? Yeah but Misery wants to save human from extinction 50 years in the future and she's a street-level character.

Re: Panspermia, anyone?

Re: Civil War You forgot to mention that from now on all heroes will have to sing 80s power ballads while in combat.

Re: WWYCD: Registration Payback The Wizard of Oz Incorporated modifies an MRI machine to zap the nanobots and turns a nice profit. He is unmoved by the political issues. He has no secret identity and doesn't consider this turnabout since politicians don't have a secret identity either.

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week Why is she blonde anyway?

Re: Panspermia, anyone? The trick is getting them into the nuclei in the first place.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? The size of the universe in toto doesn't matter, since there wouldn't be time for life to get here from anywhere except the very closest stars. And of course you'd need an actual method for the life to travel not merely though the atmosphere, but into the heart of that asteroid from where-ever it did originate.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? Not especially since we're talking terraforming efforts that would have to occur hundreds of millions of years ago to cover Earth, although later traffic might account for it. But then my galaxy of humanoids is set 50,000 years in the future. We are the precursors.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? Gaming-wise there is an appeal to panspermia. It justifies having a galaxy full of life and even having the life being more or less interedible. It works better though if you have a means of moving the life at FTL speeds by some hypothetical precursor species though.

Re: WWYCD: Dumb, Da-Dumb, Dumb, Dumb... Riptide would make a geographical map of the incidents and figure out what at the center of the circle of maximum activity. Then watch it at a cautious distance. If that doesn't turn anything up, he'll go the long and slow right by questioning the subjects and seeing if they met someone new and ideally mysterious in the past week or so.

Re: WWYCD: King Arthur's back Or not. I don't have any characters who would instantly leap to the conclusion that some unsigned prophecy is automatically true. Could just be a folkstory. And since none of my characters live in Britain, if he's near them then obviously the crisis if it is coming isn't yet upon them.

Re: WWYCD: King Arthur's back About what? This would be a lot more interesting a question if he was trying to take his rightful place as High King of Britain.

Re: WWYCD: Once bitten . . . Riptide in fear of losing his self-control in combat and draining some poor super-villain dry, would retire from active superheroics and cash in on his celebrity by becoming the drummer in a major rock and roll band while secretly buying blood for himself. I know that because that's what he did when he was infected with vampirism.

Re: The Fortress of Solitude

Re: Reconciling Manga & Batman There's an example of such a "mundane martial artist" in Naruto, Rock Lee. He took all the points the other guys invested in their multipowers or elementals or whatever and put them in SPD. He holds his own.

Re: WWYCD: Welcome Divinity? Riptide: Yeah, sounds good, but before I get into it, just what are you expecting from me afterward? What the rules? Hellfire: Wait, you want to increase my capacity for destruction? Are you insane or just testing me? TN Lung: Power is a distraction from the quest for enlightenment. Misery: Yes.

Re: WWYCD: The Coverup Still, now we know why Speedy turned to drugs. After Green Arrow used his atomic warhead arrow...

Re: WWYCD: The Coverup As long as the mentor's still dead, there's no reason to do anything. I'm a superhero, not a newspaper reporter.