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Re: Relativistic Effects of Interstellar War Well, nothing stopping the launching civilization from recycling the materials whenever a starship returns home for the next design. Why lose hundreds of thousands of tons of material that could be used to make a new ship Seriously, the crews are going to be the biggest issue. Each one will be decades behind the current ones when they get back and need to be reeducated each time. And they won't have the advantage of growing up with the tech.

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Re: PDFs on Kindle Can't recall if it was mentioned, but you could also look into something like the Eee PC from Asus. http://eepc.asu.com/global/product.htm

Re: Order of the Stick Well, it is poisonous... but so are lots of things we eat if we over indulge ourselves, heheh. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_chocolate_dangerous_for_dogs_to_eat

Re: Weight Question That is for the work done by an individual. If the copyright is owned by a corporation, then it is 95 years. However, a note from Wikipedia: (Copyrights prior to 1923 have expired.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries'_copyright_length

Re: Supernatural Hero Supernatural airs on a normal over the air channel here. Guess you must live somewhere that the (former) WB doesn't broadcast to.

Re: Shadowrun type game Why did you create a second thread on the same topic? Your first one isn't even off the main page of this forum...

Re: US Special Forces? Engineer or Weapons Specialists would probably be the closest. I'm just working on alternate ideas for a character in a Stargate-like campaign.

Re: US Special Forces? Don't have either of those, but might be able to borrow a copy. Thanks for the pointers.

How would you build a character (normal human) for a Special Forces group (or Navy Seals). What skills, martial arts, etc... I'm trying to build one, but I don't really have a military background to know what skills they are trained with and what not.

Re: PDFs on Kindle Well, that is the same effort that is being asked of the software that converts the PDFs in the first place, heheh.

Re: PDFs on Kindle If DoJ put out a PDF that was flowed for the size of a paperback book, then they would work just fine on a Kindle or the Sony Reader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Reader) when reformatted.

Re: Insane Formula The formula is also useful if you are trying to convert the display of: 1,2,3,4 to the appropriate output. That is most of the complexity in it

Re: How to Stop a 500' Tall Monster I love how sites make claims like "violate the laws of physics"

Re: 3D Star mapping software Then - a ship generator - a ship combat engine - a planetary invasion engine - a factions system ...

Re: Weapon Speed OK, that is an approximation for an arrow. But that isn't universal to anything that might be fired at that speed (tasers, rubber rounds, paintball pellets, etc...). But at least the chart does give a realistic idea of the maximum range something might have based on the exit velocity it starts with on flat open ground. Such as a 40m/s exit has a limit somewhere around 150m downrange (provided no tailwind)

Re: PDFs on Kindle Kindle and the Sony Reader are interesting devices that utilize Eink technologies to cut power requirements to the device to just when you are changing pages, so battery life is measured in page turns. Reading a normal novel on a plane is perfect for these devices, but not for things like gaming where you are wanting several open and searchable and might be constantly flipping randomly back and forth. Also, as Karmakaze noted, you have to convert the PDF to make it usable on the screen real estate provided by the device which isn't sized for an 8.5"x11" document, but for something between a paperback and trade paper sized book. Formatting gets screwed because machines don't read a PDF like a person does. So they don't know that a section of the text is a sidebar vs part of the normal flow of the document.

Re: Underground Farming in Japan Think I've seen related research that talked about hitting the plants with certain light wavelengths led to better development of certain parts of the plants. So you could hit them with one wavelength and the stalk would grow longer. Hit them with another and the the head (since I think it was rice) would grow larger and therefore produce more food per plant for us.

Re: Weapon Speed So, using a little physics and some Trig I was able to come up with a rough flight time vs distance to travel based on different exit velocities. This discounts the force of friction which will sap any ammo of its velocity the further it travels but gives you an idea. Guns, with an exit velocity of 200+ m/s have a linear slope on the flight time vs distance out to at least 1km. In fact, a gun with a muzzle velocity of 1000m/s has a flight time of 1.000012 seconds to reach 1km. Or, an increase of only 12 MILLIONTHS of a second which means you really are aiming right at what you want to hit, heheh. For those that want to follow the math... Flight Time = Distance (linear) / (Initial Velocity * Cosine (Theta)) Theta = 0.5 * Arcsine(g * Distance (linear) / (Initial Velocity ^ 2)) Obviously to make this more accurate would require the inclusion of friction in reducing the velocity, but that requires knowing the mass and cross-sectional area of the object. The different lines are the initial velocities of the various calculations. Not all of them have the same number of data points as there is no way to get them to go the distance no matter what angle you hold the weapon at, heheh.

Re: Weapon Speed GURPS has some of the Range vs Speed of Flight stuff along with rules for avoiding the attacks. Namely, just change your direction of travel and no matter how well the guy rolled to hit, you won't be where the bullet/arrow is heading (provided you are far enough away that flight time is < 1 second).

Re: Question about traveler hero the Traveler HERO books are done by ComStar games, not Hero Games. So, I would guess this is the wrong place to ask, heheh. Might be better to ask in Star Hero or at ComStar's own site.

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Re: Weapons with SPD scores? Sounds like part of the Rifts initiative system. Roll init and modify by the speed of the spell/weapon you intend to use that round. Slower weapons make you act later in the round.

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