McCoy

Re: Space plane spends 15 months in orbit, mission still secret.

How about saying at the mission was of national military importance. believe it or not mccoy not everything has to be run through you to get approved and say that it's not nefarious.

How sure are you that a lot of this doesn't get run through me? I don't tell you everything.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

mccoy has anyone ever called you and nit picker?

It's how I made my first million. Second one too come to think of it.

If it makes you feel better i left out "one in".

It does actually. Thank you.

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon?

McCoy' date=' the nuclear waste thing was a joke. Look up "Space: 1999".[/quote']

Don't have to look it up, watched the premiere of the pilot. Stupid idea then, stupid idea now, but if it's not nipped in the bud someone will suggest it seriously.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

I'm pretty sure the galaxy in the pick is the star wars universe.

Please, please, please tell me you did not just use "galaxy" and "universe" as if they were interchangeable.

Re: Space plane spends 15 months in orbit, mission still secret.

What would they have to say to make you think it's not nefarious?

How about saying what the mission was rather than just saying "you don't need to know."

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon?

Mccoy makes a lot of excellent points, I di think he could have made them in one post by editing, but I'd still give him rep for his points. I made some of them, like we know nothing about the effects of prolonged exposure to 1/6th g, myself a while back when we debated asteroid vs. moon mining.

 

 

In addition to experimenting with nanotech on the moon as a failsafe we could conduct genetic engineering experiments on possibly useful yet possibly harmful microbes there.

 

We might not want to store nuclear wastes on the moon in case the dumps explode and blow the moon out of orbit, though.

I did one point one post for the ease of anyone responding.

More to the point, we don't want to store nuclear waste on the Moon because no transportation is 100% safe, imagine a Challenger-style accident with a cargo ship load of old control rods.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

No, definitely not the Milky Way, too small, spirals not pronounced enough, center bulge too big compared to the width of the disk.

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon?

If we are ever going to be a multiplanet species, we need to start somewhere. The Moon is three days away, Mars nine months. Which would be better for our field test / prototype settlement?

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon?

Environmental concerns. Your manufacturing process pollutes? Fix it so it doesn't, or move it outside the atmosphere.

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon?

Quarantine. You want to experiment with nanotech that can cause a grey ooze situation if you get it wrong? Fine, put a quarter of a million miles, some hard radiation, and harder vacuum between us and you.

Re: Without fusion power, why go back to the moon?

So far every thing we know about biology in different gravities is from studying things (1) in Earth Normal gravity or (2) in Ziggy. We have absolutely no idea how humans will react to prolonged Moon or Mars gravity. A lunar base, we can study people, rotate them home quickly if problems develop. Mars gravity can be better simulated on the Moon or apparently the ISS, which is where I would have studied it but I wasn't asked.

Re: Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits?

Attached is a picture of a vinyard on the Narramata Bench near Penticton' date=' B. C, scraped from www.bcwineries.com (Book your B.C. wine tour vacation now!) Vines are ten year-plus investment. So are olive trees, apples, dates, figs, probably tea and mulberries....

 

And yet old men have been investing in them for thousands of years. The old proverb has it that you plant olive trees for your grandchildren. It's true, and the shelves of your local supermarket will demonstrate that people do it. A lot.

I would say more that people did (past tense) it a lot. Improved their own piece of ground that they intended their children and grandchildren to benefit from. How many vineyards and olive groves have been public works projects?

Re: Jokes

The bad part is I remember a thirty year old movie well enough to get a joke, then spend half an hour looking for my car keys before I remember I'm not supposed to drive anymore.

Re: Jokes

that is hilarious and bad at the same time.

 

would rep you.

The bad part is that is a reference to a movie that came out over 30 years ago, and we got it!

Re: A REAL reboot of the JL

Something about Piotor's Diastema made me want to throw things.

Re: Idunn, Goddess of Youth...Trolling for powers.

How about regeneration' date=' aids to lost characteristics, transformation to a younger self? I have no idea about the marvel sorceresses you mentioned so Im not much help along those lines. (Ley or otherwise)[/quote']

Healing/Regeneration UOO, AID BODY/STUN/END (I feel young and energetic!)

 

Perhaps a drain on INT/EGO (Young, dumb, and impulsive)

 

Transformation attack to give LS:longevity, perhaps with points coming from INT/EGO (would explain a LOT about the Norse Gods)

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works?

If it provided power at fusion levels with no environmental impact asides from heat' date=' it would be worth mining the moon for. It would be dirt cheap to get He3 back to earth as once you've extracted it you could just cram it into a can made of lunar metal, encase it in slag rock to serve as a heat shield, use a mass driver powered by solar energy to fling it at earth and retrieve the can with the he3 in it from the ocean.[/quote']

Yep, "IF." Still waiting for the DoP device.

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works?

Wow....

 

Thanks for helping me understand why the media doesn't want to cover the helium 3 angle. It's too theoretical. (YES, I am being sarcastic).

Show me a demonstration-of-principle device* that produces energy at better than the breakeven level and I will be behind this 110%. Until that demonstration-of-principle device gets built, it's Bluesky.

*I would prefer one that doesn't blow up, but that is not a deal breaker. There is a school of thought that if you don't destroy the prototype, you learn nothing.

Re: Street level versions of the classics

6th edition has made deflection a ranged ability, while permiting anyone to block vs range. In play I would tend to allow her to "convert" her bonus DCV into OCV for blocking purposes (From the Vambraces). Otherwise she has a Block OCV of 12 (14 if you allow her to convert)

 

The mopre I think about it though, I should make the bracelets +3 with Martial Block & Dodge

I would use Force Wall, requires DEX roll. Same with Cap's Shield. They do seem to block some autofires and area effects with them. OTOH, there is an upper limit to what a force wall can block, not so much deflection and dodging.

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works?

Wow, sinanju, dr. strangelove, and myself agreeing. Must be some weird star alignment, like a lunar eclipse and a transit of Venus happening in the same week.

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works?

Something that has theory that scientists understand behind it.

 

from the second link I posted earlier:

OK, I was thinking of "viable" as closer to "has achieved better-than break-even energy release under laboratory conditions."

By your definition, antimatter is a viable energy source.

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works?

It's sad that a viable hot fusion method (helium3 fusion) that does not even require a mechanical steam engine to make electricity is being virtually ignored in the media.

Please define "viable" in this context.

Re: More space news!

I hope it doesn't.

 

I really don't want our first people living permanently on Mars to be because of a Big Brother-style "Reality Show".

Not my first choice, but better than no humans on Mars at all.

Re: Does anyone ekse like People with Powers style games?

What is a 'Scobbies'?

Buffy's associates sometimes referred to themselves as the Scoobies, a comparison to the Scooby-Doo cast.

Re: Alternate Sexualities in Champions and Supers settings

Is this about Green Lantern being gay? As long as it's not Hal Jordan' date=' no problem. But Hal is too well-established as being a fan of the ladies (I submit Carol Ferris for your consideration). I don't know enough about John Stewart's and Guy Gardner's love lives to make a call on them. As for Kyle Rainer, I could see him being bisexual, but again, there is an established history of him having relationships with women. Or they could create an entirely new GL who happens to be gay. That works too.[/quote']

More than half the Gay men I know are divorced with children. Just thought I'd mention it.